Politics Roundtable
MaxSpeak, You Listen!
Just to show you we ain't dead yet.
Read your blogs, kids, cause children in China are starving for unconstrained commentary. If that's not bad enough, Microsoft and Yahoo are enabling the government's repression. So we have ...
Well, as a co-blogger here for nearly two years, I thought I should put in a separate posting on the closing down of Maxspeak as such and the departure of Max himself. I hope that whatever succeeds this with some additional folks will be worthy and reasonably widely read. ...
My last contribution to EPI's snapshot feature, here.
The Vienna School of Schumpeter and von Mises was corrrect that the profit motive of market capitalism provides a powerful incentive for technological change: invention, innovation, adoptioin, and diffusion, that command socialism lacks. However, Shumpeter split with von Mises in recognizing that government can play a postive role in ...
The main problem with the Republican Party: it's just too gay.
Ted Nugent holds up a machine gun in concert, says Barack Obama can 'suck on it.' Observers are shocked to learn that Ted Nugent is still holding concerts. (Stolen from Bill Maher.)
The Entitlements Myth (quoted verbatim in its entirety, w/o comment. -- mbs)
Monday, December 13, 1993, The Washington Post, p. A20.
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has it that entitlements are the great federal budget problem. Once created, they only grow; they're never cut. Thirty years ago they accounted for a fourth of the budget ...
The top story on the front page of the Washington Post today by Blaine Harden and Thomas Ricks is entitled, "Report Finds Little Progress on Iraq Goals: GAO Draft at Odds with White House." The GAO is the Government Accountability Office, and its report is being given to Congress ...
My solution for Federal Reserve policy, make Jamie Galbraith The King of Money.
Best sentence today, from Henry Farrell, on Alan Wolfe: "Not that he's a D'Souza, or anything like him, but he is Gertrude Stein's Oakland in human form, a sort of Lowest Common Denominator of liberal ...
That Jamie person guest-posting here is really annoying.
I luv Liz Edwards, but her talking about Hillary hatred is somewhat annoying. There will be no lack of Edwards hatred if he gets the nomination.
I've been packing all day, don't have any more. Not with a bang, but a ...