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Are conservatives dum-dums?
Can't Can, and often do can argue with results!
Posted by Unknown | 8:36 AM
Conservatives before the stimulus: It can't work. Conservatives after the stimulus: Sure, the economy improved, but we can't know it...
Punishing our friends because our enemies are beyond our reach
Posted by Unknown | 1:04 PM
Via Ry, Andrew Sullivan discusses the Goldstone Report on Israel's Gaza incursion. Goldstone writes: In Gaza, I was surprised and shock...
A long Nobel line
Posted by Unknown | 1:18 PM
Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for winning the pseudo-Nobel Prize in Economics . Ostrom (a political scientist by tr...
Mercy vs. Irreversibility
Posted by Unknown | 2:23 PM
Via Ry, Ta-Nehisi Coats slams the Texas death-penalty system : Texas justice is essentially sorcery, and there will be people who say that ...
Earth to Johnson & Kwak: People kill people more easily with guns.
Posted by Unknown | 7:49 AM
Simon Johnson and James Kwak attempt to rebut the notion that massive Chinese reserve accumulation was a (the?) major cause of the U.S. hou...
Conservatives: If you're serious about putting our guns down, you go first
Posted by Unknown | 6:32 AM
In an email titled "Libs only care about the environment when it's not inconvenient to them part 4,938,824," Chris notes that ...
Once more unto the breach
Posted by Unknown | 8:05 AM
Eric Falkenstein blogs : I note many of today's full-time intellectuals, those writing about ideas, have no such humility. They think ev...
What's a "Darwinist"?
Posted by Unknown | 11:43 AM
A reader at Andrew Sullivan's blog asks : What is evil for the Darwinist? Simply an externality of the struggle of the fittest? For all ...
Exports, currencies, and credible threats
Posted by Unknown | 7:29 AM
I went to see Paul Krugman's lecture on globalization yesterday (part of a "festschrift" conference honoring a U of M professo...
Spouting a lot of pomo nonsense does little to lessen the power of science...
Posted by Unknown | 7:37 PM
They Might Be Giants has a new song out called " Science is Real ." Lyrics: Science is real From the Big Bang to DNA Science is re...