I’m not sure whose turn in the rotation it is at Reason magazine to tell us there is no racism in the tea party movement (Welch, Young, Walker, and Michael Moynihan, with multiple entries, have all done their best, while the Fonzi of Freedom Nick Gillespie had a leather jacket to oil and outsourced his …
Glibertarianism
Leverage Meets Real Life
The latest Leverage episode, the Double-Blind Job, featured a plotline in which a drug company executive was planning to release a new drug and make billions. There was only one problem- they knew that it caused liver damage and would kill people. Not so fictional, it seems: In the fall of 1999, the drug giant …
They’re Paid to Spin
Digby flags this CNBC clip of an anchor shooting down someone making shit up: That was Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which as far as I can tell is dedicated to simply spewing right wing/glibertarian nonsense across a variety of formats. It’s basically Reason magazine if they wore suits and didn’t care about …
And Marijuana Remains Illegal
Sweet jeebus: During one week in June Pfizer 1) agreed to pull its 10-year-old leukemia drug Mylotarg from the market because it caused more, not less patient deaths 2) Suspended pediatric trials of Geodon two months after the FDA said children were being overdosed 3) Suspended trials of tanezumab, an osteoarthritis pain drug, because patients …
Debtors’ prisons
People underestimate just how much the glibertarian right likes the idea of a return to 18th century mores. Because if you put people in jail for having debts (via David Dayden), then people wouldn’t go into debt and the FREE MARKET would take care of the rest. And, no, he’s not talking about AIG and …
It can’t happen here
Bruce Bartlett brings up an interesting nightmare scenario for a Republican-controlled Congress: To be sure, the debt limit has always been raised in time to prevent a default, although Treasury sometimes had to push the limits of the law to move money around to pay the government’s bills. However, I believe the game has changed …
She Came From France, She Had a Thirst for Knowledge
Episode 531 of the recurrent blogospheric wank-fest over the retirement age is going on, begun by the New York Times and facilitated by Sully. Here’s Veronique de Rugy: The best option is to cut benefits. One way to do that is to raise the age of eligibility to at least 70 and then progressively increase …
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