“Voucher” is one of those cool words, like “quantum” and “mobile”, that just makes everything better: David Brooks columns are often difficult to grasp hold of, but I want to flag this accurate-but-misleading account of how Paul Ryan’s “budget roadmap” achieves large reductions in entitlement spending: “On the welfare-state side, he’d sweep away most subsidies …
David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
Perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn
It seems like only yesterday that the New York Times was celebrating Lindsey Graham as a moderate party-bucking maverick: “I may introduce a constitutional amendment that changes the rules if you have a child here,” Graham said during an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. “Birthright citizenship I think is a mistake, that we …
The Bombings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Our insane policies continue: At least 45 civilians, many women and children, were killed in a rocket attack by the NATO-led foreign force in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province last week, a spokesman for the Afghan government said on Monday. The incident happened in Helmand’s Sangin district on Friday when civilians crammed into a mud-built house …
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The Prescience of George Carlin
More compelling data: So why are we witnessing such fundamental changes? Well, the globalism and “free trade” that our politicians and business leaders insisted would be so good for us have had some rather nasty side effects. It turns out that they didn’t tell us that the “global economy” would mean that middle class American …
Bombing Iran
MJ Rosenberg: A few weeks ago I wrote that the Atlantic’s Jeff Goldberg was busy at work on a magnum opus for “The Atlantic” calling for a bombing attack by the United States on Iran. The article will appear as a cover story in August. The war party decided that Goldberg is to play the …
This is ugly
I know I’ve pitched temper tantrums at commenters here before, so I don’t blame McMegan for losing her shit but for God’s sake, why can’t she correct a basic mathematical error (via Tbogg)? Megan McArdle sees someone suggest that Bush’s tax cuts for the rich should be eliminated and the money used for better purposes, …
Interesting random data
Off topic — today’s topic being SHERRODGATE — the Brookings Institution (via ThinkTanked and HuffPost) has some neat data on which metropolitan areas are the least and most educated, using various measures. Using “percentage of population over 25 with bachelor’s degrees” or “percentage of population with a graduate degree”, 24 of the top 25 areas …