About two years ago I wrote an article saying that despite the lack of evidence, and despite the near-universal belief among economists that it was not a problem, I was worried about inflation. My reason was that I couldn’t see how the government could pay off the massive debt it was running up except by […]
Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsley is a Bloomberg View columnist.
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Romney Debates Romney About Health-Care Reform
OK, let’s go through this one more time. In 2006, Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, guided to passage, signed with a flourish and implemented with fanfare a health-care reform law for his state. It was intended to achieve universal health coverage — a long-standing liberal goal that was not even on the Democrats’ national […]
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America’s Spoiled Voters, in Iowa and Elsewhere
Seven days ago, the Rick Santorum boom was still a glint in Mike Allen’s eye. In a Des Moines Register poll published the weekend before the Iowa caucuses, 41 percent of respondents said they weren’t sure whom they were going to support. And these were people who expressed an intention to attend a caucus. They […]
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Palestinians’ Next “Invention” Will Be a State
In November 1947, shortly after the United Nations voted for partition of the Holy Land into separate Arab and Jewish states, Chaim Weizmann was cited by the New York Times as saying that “the most important work now was to build Palestine.” What? To build Palestine? Yes, in 1947 the word “Palestinian” –if it meant […]
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When Obama Music Ends, Class Warfare Begins
“This isn’t about class warfare,” President Barack Obama said this week, in his speech at a high school in Osawatomie, Kansas. But in fact, the president dived into many of the themes that have been urged on him by left-wing class warriors: the disappearing middle class, “the breathtaking greed of a few,” “insurance companies that […]
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TWM
All magazines aspire to be factually accurate. Beyond that, their goals vary. Some claim and even actually try to be totally “objective,” eschewing all opinion or, as Newsweek used to claim years ago, separating fact from opinion. This is a futile goal (are you going to be objective and avoid any opinion about child molesting?), […]
