Politics

I AM PART OF THE VAST LIBERAL MEDIA CONSPIRACY….Matt Yglesias says he doesn’t need a job at TNR: This site is being so well funded by trial lawyers, big union bosses, radical academics, dangerously out-of-touch feminists, race-hustlers, petty criminals, and friends of terrorism that I hardly need this TNR job. Frankly I don’t know how […]

MORE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS….THE REPUBLICANS ARE STEALING OUR MONEY!….The folks at eRiposte have yet another cheap and cheerful economic analysis showing that Republicans are looting strong Democratic controlled states (like California!) and redistributing our wealth to weaker Republican controlled states. Do I believe it? Maybe. Then again, maybe it’s just a cheap partisan shot. But if […]

WHAT’S NEXT?….JEWS WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF IF HITLER HAD WON WORLD WAR II?….Here in the great state of California the Republican party has been shut out of statewide office for most of the last decade. Why? Largely because they supported the anti-immigrant Proposition 209 a few years ago and thus became reviled among the […]

THE JOHN EDWARDS CAMPAIGN IS ALREADY IN TROUBLE….Eric Folley paid a visit to the John Edwards website and has some harsh words for it: I took a quick look at the John Edwards for President website tonight. In a word, it’s bad. In two words, it’s really bad. Technical problems: The HTML doesn’t validate. The […]

DISAPPEARING DATA….Late Night Thoughts has a post today about one of my favorite subjects, the transient nature of information today: In the late 1970s, the Census Bureau discovered that the aggregated data from the 1960s Census could be read only using an UNIVAC Type II-A tape drive. At the time, there were only two of […]

MORE FROM BRAD DELONG….This is a very cool ESP test. It took me about 10 tries to figure out what was going on. Apparently, that puts me somewhere between a nine year old and a professor of economics. UPDATE: My wife got it on the second try. Sheesh.

MORE ON DIVIDENDS!….Reader Eric Mauro begs me to keep writing about the proposed dividend tax cut. Hey, it’s Sunday, so why not? And there is an odd angle to the whole thing that I haven’t mentioned before. Sure, a dividend tax cut is about the least likely candidate there is to provide any economic stimulus, […]

INTERNATIONAL EXTORTION: TWO CASE STUDIES FROM THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION….Yeah, I know, Atrios warned me about analogies, but what the hell. Live on the edge, I say. In today’s LA Times, John Balzar writes about the Bush administration loosening restrictions on tuna fishing: “I had to look at the big picture,” the agency’s assistant administrator, Bill […]

AEA ROUNDUP….Brad DeLong makes a conference of economists sound fun. More fun than a software conference, anyway.

HOW TO QUOTE IN CONTEXT….AND HOW NOT TO….Via Ken Layne, I read this AP story about a reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat who got in trouble for some intemperate language: Political writer and columnist Bill Cotterell, in an e-mail exchange, wrote “Except for Jordan and Egypt, no Arab nation has a peace treaty with Israel. […]