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Brad DeLong


July 23, 2008, 4:18 pm, 324266

Jason writes http://obama.3cdn.net/20badf9c4471379fcc_h3m6bxsaa
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To: Interested parties
Fr: Jason Furman, Economic Policy Director, Obama Campaign
Re: John McCain’s tax plan is $2.8 trillion more expensive than his advisors previously admitted
Dt: July 23, 2008

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July 23, 2008, 12:18 pm, 324091

Testing...


July 22, 2008, 6:18 pm, 323625

She writes:

Tor.com:The Singularity Problem and Non-Problem: I don't think we'll ever get to the point where understanding the future would be like explaining Worldcon [i.e., the world science fiction annual convention] to a goldfish...

She may be right about the future. I think that she is almost surely ...


July 22, 2008, 2:18 pm, 323457

Is this more information than I want about its replacement?

Hell no!


July 22, 2008, 2:18 pm, 323458

Mark Kleiman writes:

The Reality-Based Community: Note to John McCain: Ummm ... Senator? About this?

I'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border. And I would not announce that I'm going to attack ...


July 22, 2008, 2:18 pm, 323456

Andrew Gelman of the Monkey Cage says:


July 22, 2008, 2:18 pm, 323455

John Berry of Bloomberg is also puzzled at the disjunction:

Bloomberg.com: Opinion: Sure, the U.S. economy has lots of problems, including falling payroll employment, the highest inflation in 17 years, declining home prices and a shaky financial industry. Consumer confidence has dropped into the basement, partly because of ...


July 22, 2008, 12:18 pm, 323386

In spite of what the National Journal says, the most liberal senator is not John Kerry or Barack Obama. It may be Russ Feingold. He has a plan to use your money for good:

Daily Kos :: Diaries: When we started the Progressive Patriots Fund in 2005, ...


July 22, 2008, 2:18 am, 323087

Gideon Rachman:

FT.com / Columnists / Gideon Rachman - Back Obama for commander-in-chief: [W]hile the armchair generals in Washington will denounce Mr Obama for weakness on Iran, the real generals support his position. The great constraint on the radicals in the Bush administration is that the US’s ...


July 21, 2008, 8:18 pm, 322995

Outsourced to Attaturk:

Rising Hegemon: Heroic levels of inanity: Remember when a columnist was expected to at least be sober?

I have a girlfriend in New York who puts her boyfriends through Feats of Strength...

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