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Archives for August 2011
FREAKOUT
Tell me why I am supposed to be freaking out right now. I’m remarkably calm, and not used to it. I don’t even feel angry at the moment. I’m not drunk. Am I having a heart attack?
Conservatives maybe a tad worried about Wisconsin?
The charitable Koch Brothers, out and about, helping the community, like they do: mailers have now turned up from Americans For Prosperity Wisconsin, addressed to voters in two of the Republican-held recall districts, where the elections will be held on August 9. The mailers ask recipients to fill out an absentee ballot application, and send …
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We can live in fear or act out of hope
I don’t know what I think about using the 14th amendment to go around Congress on the debt ceiling, my gut instinct is to oppose it, because it seems like one more place for the executive branch to grab power. That said, this is the worst argument I’ve heard against using it: If he had …
Megan McArdle: Is it her reading that’s the problem? Her comprehension? Her honesty? You Make The Call!
I know that this is all kind of moot in light of the events of the last few days, but someone passed word of this McArdle post to me yesterday, and it seemed to me to capture so much of what has gone wrong in the way the media engaged the debate over deficits and …
Our failed media experiment
Open Thread
Needing this right now. We will need two loveseats if he gets any bigger. For comparison’s sake, as of Thanksgiving last year there was still room beside his lazy butt for an adult-type person to sit.