Or lack thereof: Dear Ezra, I keep hearing about how smart the policy conversations on JournoList are, and am starting to feel like I’m missing out by not reading them. Could I join? I realize you and I don’t share the same politics, but I can promise you I have no interest in flaming anyone …
It was a fine idea at the time
When I first started hearing about the New Black Panther manufactured scandal, the first thing that went through my head was “how long til the Kaplan ombudsman writes that the Post needs to cover this story in order to make its conservative readers happy”? Paul Waldman of TAP describes the process very well: It’s a …
This Needs to be Said Over and Over Again
And even then it won’t stick because someone will get bitten by a shark or a little blonde girl will get kidnapped: Deficit Hawks Don’t Care About The Deficit Some just want to cut spending that might benefit poor brown people, most just want to cut taxes paid by rich people. They don’t actually care …
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A Centrist Solution
Here’s Ezra’s gloss on the financial regulation compromise: So rather than a bank tax, which Scott Brown worried would take capital out of the banking system, we’re going to drop part of the TARP program that was … putting capital into the banking system. And rather than making big banks and big hedge funds foot …
This amuses me
I’ll get off the Goldberg beat soon, but this made me laugh: to show the world that he was right about Al Qaeda-Iraq connections, he had Eli Lake guestblog that Goldberg was right about Al Qaeda-Iraq connections. If you’re not familiar with Lake, he writes for the Washington Times and (formerly) New York Sun, does …
Jeff Goldberg is a worthless, sociopathic sack of shit
You probably already knew that, but this is the clincher: The liberal blogger Dave Weigel, who was hired by The Post to cover the conservative movement, has resigned, after advising Matt Drudge on a semi-public forum for leftish commentators to set himself on fire. Put aside the controversy over whether the Post, which was advised …
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High Hats and Arrowed Collars
Working as intended: Unemployment remains at near-record levels, and most Americans are struggling to rebuild their battered finances. But the country’s wealthy are once again doing just fine, thank you. No group was immune to the downturn. In 2008, as the financial crisis raged, the stock market hit bottom and the Great Recession ate into …