Posted by Unknown | 8:41 AM

Here's Matt Yglesias being chock full of good points about transit policy : [T]he conservative discourse about mass transit simply illus...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:23 PM

Niall Ferguson is at it again , predicting the "downfall of the American empire": Niall Ferguson is candidly calling time on the A...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:31 AM

I remember, a few years back, driving through LA and listening to Michael Savage on the radio. He was declaring angrily that "the black...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:43 AM

Intel CEO Paul Otellini : Other countries have focused on investing in innovation, creating national policies to build digital infrastructur...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:23 PM

Martin Wolf : [China's] policy of keeping the exchange rate down is equivalent to an export subsidy and tariff, at a uniform rate – in o...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:16 AM

" Epic Beard Man ," the video that shows an old white guy delivering a beatdown to a black guy on an Oakland city bus, has quickly...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:39 AM

Apparently some among the Chinese leadership thought that once their country was the most powerful on Earth, all other countries would do wh...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:37 PM

Greg Mankiw offers his thoughts on Obama's proposed bipartisan fiscal commission: [W]hat if you are [a] conservative [on the fiscal com...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:59 AM

From the government agency that brought you nuclear power, space travel, computers, and the internet: The brain trust of the Pentagon says...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:16 AM

Ry forwards me the following chain email: Friends & Associates, Please meet Dr Starner Jones from Jackson , Mississippi...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:54 AM

Robert Samuelson, as usual, gets some facts wrong in his most recent column about China (for instance, if the purpose of Chinese trade poli...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:48 AM

Bob Herbert has a decent column about how China is beating the U.S. in the race for solar energy . An excerpt: Way back in 1979, in the mids...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:06 AM

It kind of makes me sad that both Ayn Rand and Karl Marx were Jewish. Together, these two philosophers have caused more devastation to the w...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:46 AM

Ryan Avent notes that one reason Americans' median income has stalled might be that our education level is no longer increasing : [A] wo...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:42 AM

It really saddens me when Brad DeLong uses an obviously moronic argument. That is not a thing that often happens. But here's the proof :...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:25 AM

Paul Krugman reports that Paul Ryan wants to balance the budget by taking people's Medicare away : Well, Rep. Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for Am...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:36 AM

Via Ry, here's a piece on why the Democratic party seems so much less united than the GOP: Up until about 2006 GOP solidarity remained ...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:12 AM

In the past week or two, I've been posting a lot of criticism of China's policies, both in the security realm (cybersecurity, hackin...

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