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Debt Ceiling Deja Vu 27 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
Yglesias The issue is a political and legal crisis. You have the Social Security Act on the books. You have appropriations bills on the books. It’s illegal to not pay Social Security recipients what ...
So you don’t have to 27 Aug 2013 | 06:07 am
You’d think if Paul Waldman were going to call Rand Paul & libertarians ‘ignorant’ for espousing the standard libertarian thinking on rights, he’d at least perfunctorily look into how they actually de...
Interests 26 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
Questions like Are US Interests At Stake in Egypt and Syria? seem like they should be on point but once I start to see them I become more and more convinced that military action is coming. If it is d...
Links 26 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
James Bowman reviews/summarizes Breaking Bad. Self recommending. I am still, even now, rooting for Walter White BTW. Saved money by not using health insurance. Many RWCG themes: ‘insurance’ is not in...
Born These Ways 22 Aug 2013 | 06:11 pm
I would not ordinarily be privy to the contents of a Maureen Dowd column (is she still alive?), but apparently there’s one out there (who does she write for anyway? where are all these ‘columns’ she h...
Immigration Bla bla 20 Aug 2013 | 07:41 am
Some points apparently needing clarifying re: my immigration position. I do not think open-borders advocates literally believe or assert all immigrants have job offers. What I think is that they make...
Symmetry 19 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
The President pushed through this policy over bitter, sometimes hysterical, opposition from the other party. He did not create the situation which motivated the policy. There were genuine problems w...
Who knew economics 101 held? 19 Aug 2013 | 03:19 am
Via IBA, we see Forever 21 is the latest company to take the oh-so-unforeseen step of rationally responding to the stupid-ass incentives put in place by Obamacare and making all their employees part-t...
Hey! Give them a break. Communism is hard! 17 Aug 2013 | 06:17 am
Ezra Klein’s defense of the latest Obamacare ‘delay’ strikes me as revealing. Presumably he expects Smart People to gravitate to his explanation #2: 2) The Obama administration is correctly showing f...
Lynx 16 Aug 2013 | 10:17 pm
This important Yglesias post on the virtues of staying inside for lunch represents another benchmark in his eventual, decades-in-the-making slide into Andy Rooney-ism. (See also.) His thesis that indo...
