Maybe the thought is that they should play a Howard-Gortat "twin towers" lineup someone more often.
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I've said before that thought I love my Kindle, it deprives me of the signaling fun that comes along with reading traditional books.
But burning gasoline creates a lot of solution.
I suppose it strikes me as unlikely that California's budget problems are unusually intractable because California's citizens as unusually unreasonable.
Back in November, of Indianians who told exit pollsters they were most interested in health care 68 percent voted for Obama.
Not really a typo, but as a former Hoosier, I had to call him on it.
There was never an intention of creating a standing 60 vote supermajority rule in the Senate, and for the vast majority of American history filibustering was a routine measure rather than an everyday thing. Now that it's become routine, the situation is untenable and it's urgent to start looking for a path to shifting to majority rule.
It's true that the carbon tax I would design would be better policy than the cap-and-trade program congress is designing, but by the same token the cap-and-trade program I would design is better than the carbon tax law congress would right.
the general idea is that a doctor will continue practicing for decades after leaving medical nurse
ut if unemployment breaches 10 percent
All Matt needed to do was copy-and-paste this, but sometimes grabbing that first letter is hard, I guess.
One is that obviously Israel's nuclear program is not a direct security concern for the United States in the way Israel's is.
Matt has since corrected this on his site.
Even if all the investment bankers slinked off to Galt's Gulch we would miss them.But a world without investment bankers? Without hedge fund managers? Who would care?
But The Washington Post, by standing behind the claim that up is down if George Will says that is is, is pissing that brand away....
There will be a proliferation of niche media, and there will also be a handful of global English-language news media brands offering video, test, and audio coverage.
I'm quoted in the piece, but I think I could possibly have been clearly.
At any rate, I thought the base might like Jindal's text, but eve the Fox News panel couldn't stomach the delivery:
Great power conflict, by contrast, merely ensure than any actual or would-be dictator or revolutionary can always count on the support of one or the other external players.
The hope is for that trend to turn around. First, employment starts trending up. Then incomes start treading up
To extrapolate a bill, more Charlie Crists and fewer Bobby Jindals....
If I had a more serious job, I would prefer Excel despite its ugly charts, but for the blogger in your life get Numbers[.]
Bonus trivial, the next guy who I arbitrarily decided should be president was Howard Dean and, indeed, I watched the Locke SOTU response from a motel in Burlington, VT where I'd gone to check the Dean campaign out.
Mark Kleiman does it buy it and argues, convincingly in my view, that "the demographics aren't right."
And as Joe Klein observes, what Jindal seems to be for is tax cuts for wealth individuals.
I think everyone understands the human phenomenon whereby we mistaken deem our own personal experiences to be more typical than they are....
Update: As detailed here, my facts are a bit off as college attendance rates.
He stayed in this position for nine years until, in 1931, New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt but Jesse Straus in charge of an agency called the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration....
Hopkins was a hugely important figure in the New Deal as the administrator [of] relief and jobs programs such as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
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As such, Hopkins was shifted out of the Commerce job and sent overseas as an unofficial adversary to Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin as well as to a key role in the Lend-Lease program.
White people live Starbucks more than black people.
Rosenbaum knows this because it wrote about it in his book, but for the purpose of this article he's glossed over it....
In Prussia, for example, Otto Braun's SDP coalition was happily in power through democratic means until July of 1932 when the federal Chancellor Franz von Papen decided to abrogated constitutional government, kick Braun out of power, and start running the state himself.
If someone charged Matt from every typo he made, would that discouraging him from being so careless?
A VMT tax just discouraging driving as such....
So I'm not sold. When it comes to pricing driving-related activities, it makes sense to charge people from things that actually impose costs on others--burning gasoline, and taking up space on crowded roads--not the mere act of driving.
Ezra's main point is that coverage that's utterly trivial and that poisons public understanding of crucial issues that effect the lives of billions of people is rewarded by the market, and that Politico does a good [job] of delivering on coverage that's utterly trivial and that poisons public understanding of crucial issues that effect the lives of billions of people.
Not only is Canada very high on the list of our trade partners, but due to the nature of the geography, the trade volume belies on unusual level of actual integration whereby Canadian and American business enterprises are completely intertwined....
A day-trip to Ottawa early in the administration is the least we can do and Mexican-American voters can be quoted with other means.
This separates the people who live in the rowhouses immediately north of New York Avenue from the supermarket and other retail that's in the ground floor of the condo building I life in immediately south of NY Ave, and it separates us in the building from the Metro station a few blocks away.
I suppose you'd have to say that the major downside to this plan is not so much the cost, which is small relative to other stuff that's happening, but the reality that messing around like this means that whenever the economy gets back on the upswing it's going to be harder for people to get mortgages now that banks now that if things go wrong the government may well step in and start re-writing deals.
But nevertheless, the most serious analysis out there consistent found Shays['] position to the right of every single member of the House Democratic caucus, even though many Democrats represented more GOP-friendly seats than Shays'....
What makes congress polarized is when even the most-liberal Republican is more conservative than the most-conservative Democrat. And you can't blame that on polarization.
But by the same token it's also true that the Republican Party is dominated by its upscale wing. Johnny Isakson may in some sense "represent" a middle-and-working class constituency but his personal fortune is valued in the $8-24 million range. Mitch McConnel who likes to play a Europe-hating rube in TV is in the $3-13 million range.
He flagged the critical research by Claudia Golden and Lawrence Katz on the importance of improved performance from the school system to our future prosperity and the prospects for a decent mount of equality.
Certainly I don't see direct diplomacy on the highest levels as particularly critical, though it would be nice of Chávez and Obama could say "hello" as long as they're both at the same summit.
But it's important to be clear--those tactics included lockstep opposition to a Clinton economic program whose opponents set it would wreck the economy, but in fact laid the groundwork for years of prosperity.
I bet Man, the State, and War could sell more copies if they wound a way to reposition it as a dating advice book.
There are dozens of Senate conservatives who could have said "I don't believe in the idea of Keynesian stimulus, but as long as you guys want to do a Keynesian stimulus you may as well do one properly, thus even though I'll vote 'no' on the final bill I'll agree to vote 'yes' on cloture if you undue the damage done by Sens. Specter, Collins, Snowe, and Nelson."
Bush Forced to Buckrake in Canada Since All Real Americans Despite Him
The technical term involves something I've mentioned previously, the "velocity of money" -- the speed through which economic activity moves through the system....
But perhaps a bigger issue is that the didn't actually clean up their banking system.
Second, as regard Lieberman I think this is totally wrong.
For a bunch of down-home regular folks just tryin' to stay in such with the good people back in their rural districts, members of the Blue Dog caucus do seem to spend an awful lot of time speaking to a nationwide audience of political junkies on daytime cable news and Beltway-only publications.
Editor's note: Matt caught this one and corrected it. Also, Matt's commenters think this particular error is evidence of Matt's use of speech recognition software, but we aren't sure. Mat also has a lot of typos that look like he just missed the right key on his keyboard.
It wasn't entirely clear if they were making an epistemic argument in which the success of the Cavs demonstrated that it must be the case that Williams is having an All-Star season or if it was a causal case in which the Cavs' success simply mandates that you must make Williams and All-Star irrespective of the quality of his play.
Perhaps the most obvious thing to do in fiscal policy terms is to extent the automatic stabilizer effect that you see on the federal level down to the state level....
And in the most severe cases, cutbacks in assistant to the severely impoverished will have a decades-long impact on the well-being of their children.
For from being free, Dubai is ruled by a dictator, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, dignified with royal title in virtue of the fact that he inherited his political power from relatives rather than seizing it of his own accord.
But even though the economy as a whole depends on consumers like me spending me, my personal decision to cut back shouldn't particularly have any macroeconomic impact.
It's never pleasant to be laid off from your job, but in Europe such layoffs won't generally have major implications for your ability to acquire health care for yourself and your family or for your ability to pay for your children's schooling.That's nice for the unemployment, of course, but beyond that it can help maintain a certain level of confidence in the future.
Editor's note: It appears that Matt meant to say "unemployed" instead of "unemployment." This is the second time he has made this mistake. (The first time is here.)
The alternative in which we buy American and the Japanese buy Japan and the Europeans buy European is quite a bit worse for everyone....
Indeed, while all countries need to engage in stimulus it seems to me that we actually need bigger stimulus relative to GDP from surplus countries like Japan, China, and German than we ourselves engage in.
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And it's also true that [while] the "explosions and corpses" aspects of foreign policy attract the most attention, America's peaceful interactions with Latin America, Europe, and Asia have more impact on the average citizen's life than do the elections in Iraq.
One feature that I wish more American cities has is bike lanes that are actually separated from the flow of traffic so that they can be used for bicycling rather than as double-parking lanes
Reporters ask questions that they know perfectly well won't be answered, and then the press secretary does his best to dodge him.
This smear gang used to be extremely effective across the board, but in recent years there's been a lot of decline in its efficacy as regards the punditsphere, though it still succeeds in generating near-uniformity in the states views of elected officials and politicians.
The details of roquefort's problem [aside], the key issue is that in a "trade war" like this, everyone loses:...
6. At which point everyone is even more worse off.
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The we'll have to think of further measures to hurt their producers. And much the same would apply to Japan and Chinese.
Just about everywhere, you need a special license of some kind to see booze.
The looking budget crisis isn't a reason to delay action on health care, it's a reason to avoid delay.
The real heyday of American newspapering came in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the United States features a literate population and no broadcast media. The rise of radio and television had a devastating impact on the industry and caused massive shrinkage in the volume of papers. This shrinkage then led to what journalists consider the heyday of American journalism when the industry had fallen so far that most papers faced little-to-no competition and could serve as authoritative "objective" sources of information. We're now once again amidst and era in which technological change is going to kill off a lot of existing business models. But all this has happened before, and all this will happen again.
This was followed by a small disquisition on Marx and the reserve army of the unemployment.
Editor's note: Just to confirm that this is indeed a mistake, compare these two google searches:
"K Street" is a synedoche for the influence peddling business, but it's also an actual street and one you get east of 9th Street it takes on a much humbler character.
The Decemberists "The Bagman's Gambit" is a noteworthy recent DC-located song....
So the House of Representatives including Mall refurbishment funds in their stimulus bill. But know-nothing conservatives decided that fixing up important national landmarks sounds funny, so they've spent a week mocking the idea. And instead of punching bask and asking if the right-wing intends to just let the whole country fall apart for the sake of a sound byte, the Obama administration is backing down and getting the provision removed.
For person reasons of petty vengeance, the details of which I won't bore you with, ever since The New Republic was acquired by a Canadian firm I've been hoping they would knuckle under to the demands of their hockey-loving overlords and run an article making the case that Americans should pay more attention to Canadian politics. For quite some time now, it appeared that my dreams were not to be satisfied, as the proportion is so absurd that even a Canadian-owned enterprise wouldn't embrace this thesis.
Basically, they like the corporate tax cuts to which worth projects like mass transit have had to take a seat, but they want even more business tax cuts....
Any $800 billion bill split between tax and spending provisions is going to include some stuff people like, and some stuff people don't like, and therefore a lot of members who could conceivably go either way.
The giveaway phrase in ordinarily English seems to be "the money has to come from somewhere" which elides the difference between money just sitting around ("somewhere") and circulating via economic activity.
I have mixed feelings about reporting on these kind of findings. On the one hand, I don't actually think that elected officials' future has very much to do with the public's opinion, such as it is, on this kind of question. I think, for example, that Obama's re-election prospects will be based much more on whether or not living standards are increasing in 2012 than on whether or not the policies he pursued in 2009 matched up with at-the-time public opinion. So the politically smart thing to do is more-or-less ignore year-one opinion and just do things that you think will work out in the medium-term (of course the wise and moral thing to do is to also think about the long term) irregardless of the polls. But on the other hand, there's lots of reason to believe that people's beliefs about short-term public opinion do influence how they act so it's important to spread the information around when it points in the right direction.
Editor's note: Grammarians prefer not to use irregardless, as it is a made-up word with the same meaning as regardless.
As another illustration of the conservative media's human capital problem, consider that some of the people writing for sites like Newbusters are evidently pretty dimwitted...
But more to the point, in 2007 Newbusters "reported" that CAP/AF CEO John Podesta is the leader of the organization? Really? Do this guy even know what reporting means? How on earth does he get these scoops?
Editor's note: Thanks to Rachel for the tip via our tip line. We're especially grateful since she was able to document the do/does mistake before Matt went back and corrected it.
Stop Reading This Blog on Turn to C-SPAN
I'll be on C-SPAN tomorrow morning from 8AM to 9AM alongside someone form the Heritage Foundation.
Thanks to Jacob for the tip.
Elliot Spitzer uses his most recent Slate column to call for a renewed spirit of competition and innovation in American business....
And I think there's a lot of sentiment that punishing people for consensual acts is wrong, and also that criminalizing prosecution leaves women exposed to violence, abuse, and rape at the hands of pimps and cops alike.
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So what's former prospector and former state attorney general Elliot Spitzer think about this?
Update: Thanks to willie for pointing out the "prospector" mistake.
Mistake of the week winner, January 18-24, 2009
Right now, Ron Blagojevich is on television offering the most hysterical extended metaphor I've ever heard.
That difference is important, because because there's several months' worth of difference between the time span "two years after President's Day Weekend" (the target date for stimulus signing) and the end of FY2010 on October 1, 2010....
The White House has release to the press a letter form OMB Director Peter Orszag making these points:
He doesn't have a background negotiation disarmament deals, and he's not an Iran expert--he doesn't speak Persian as far as I know....
That seems to call for putting in charge someone who's skills and background are more closely tailed to the ask.
The managers of a traditional university may or may not take and opportunity to screw over their students for money, but the managers of a for-profit are obliged to screw you over.
One kind find out, fairly definitively, what the institutional prerogatives of different officeholders are and therefore what the significance of their views and attitudes are....
It might seem like an inability to lie would be a problem in life, but in a lot of ways if it was impossible for you to know and possible for you to signal this credibly that could be a huge asset.
LATE UPDATE: Thanks to Neil "The Ethical Werewolf" Sinhababu for noticing (and blogging about) the second mistake. It almost escaped our attention.
It puts one in a mind of the time when it was impossible with Israel to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority because it was run by a corrupt and incompetent Fatah.
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Taken in isolation, each of these positions has a patina of reasonableness but the overall pattern is of a government that's much more interested in finding reasons to forever-forestall negotiations--expanding settlements all the while--than in finding a route to peace.
Which is perhaps a more complicated answer than some people are hoping for, but I think that in the real word questions of principle and questions of pragmatism are more intertwined than people sometimes care to admit.
Whether or not you think progressive economic works in practice, and whether or not progressive economic policy is popular in practice at any given time, the progressive idea is that we're setting about to make sure that prosperity is more broadly shared--to improve the material condition of the broad mass of people. That's something that ought to appeal to people. So progressives cling pretty dearly to the notion that our views can and should be made broadly popular. Conservative thinking doesn't really have that element. It appeals, on both a theoretical and practical level, to the idea of the natural right of the wealthy to their wealthy.
The beginning of the Obama administration is good for the world, but probably bad for the progressive blogosphere. Fewer conservatives in positions of power equals fewer wingutty policies to complain about it. Fortunately, here comes Big Hollywood to the rescue with a fine wine from Dirk Benedict who played Starbuck on the old Battlestar Galactica. Benedict's hilariously insupportable thesis is that the old BSG was better than the old BSG and that the specific reason the old BSG was better than the old BSG was the old BSG's tendency toward simplistic storylines and retrograde gender politics
We're putting our faith in the idea that the person occupying that office to be guided by the higher law, God's law.
And I think the Italian government in more generous with its bailouts of national champions than we are.
It must have been a day or two later when I was inside the Fleet Center and randomly ran into a guy I knew who, unbeknownst to me, had moved to Illinois to work for Ron Blagojevic (this was back when Blago was a progressive rising star) and he told me that I just had to get into the arena to hear this guy Barack Obama speak.
I think I've written some variation on this ever year now for several years, but I do always wish that praise and attention for Martin Luther King, Jr. would pay more attention to his teachings on violence and non-violence.
It's a situation where there's a lot of opportunity for rents, for acquiring quasi-monopolies, and for wracking up huge profits.
In light of 30 years with of IT advancement we need to update the law rather than puzzle over its interpretation.
For months now, everywhere you go you see articles speculating about what Barack Obama will do once he's in office. And speculating about the consequences of Obama's policies, but speculating about their content.
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Parliamentary government offers basically two alternatives to the mysterian nature of the American system.
I've longed maintained that a big part of the reason is simply that there's no way to understand the extent of the Bush administration's misdeeds that doesn't also make a lot of congressional Democrats look ridiculous.
And personally while I recognize a lot of virtues to New York City, I prefer living in a smaller city.
It was a reminder of the pettiness of mid-1990s politics, but also a reflection of the fact that the Bartlett administration, like the Clinton administration, and like many other politicians, had a certain imagine in its head of how politics worked.
And it's really striking that other people in the conservative movement seem to take this "accomplishment" very seriously. Here's Christian Brose and here's Dov Zakheim being very referent about the whole thing.
It's been a long time since taking midwestern agricultural products via train to Chicago and then by boat across the Great Lakes, across the Eerie Canal, down the Hudson, and to the port at New York was a major element in the American economy.
We've been acting like a rogue superpower for the past eight years, and sweeping that all under the rug just because it fits Barack Obama's political style doesn't undue that image.
Or, rather, that Obama seems health care reform as the centerpiece of his approach to long-term budgetary strategy.
And, indeed, how Israel's settlement expansions and growing network of roadblocks and special highways crossing the West Bank are weakening Fatah and the forces of Palestinian moderation.
Famously, the radio proved to be a hugely effective communications medium for Obama. But then the pendulum swung back in the age of TV. And now in the internet age, it's swinging back again in an interesting way....
The internet is famous for the way it fragments attention, but one of the ways in which it does that is by making it possibly to narrowcast more content to interested parties than would ever be viable to push through the crowded pipes of cable television.
Mistake of the week winner, January 11-17, 2009
Not only is this barrel full of tax cuts proposed by the Republican Study Committee pretty bad stimulus, but to even call a package of permanent tax cuts a "alternative stimulus" is a serious abuse of the term.
But the do little to change the behavior of either the jaded older faculty member or the harried junior faculty member.
James Kirchick mounts a semi-defense of Israel's move to ban the party's two Arab political parties.
Or thing about the Employee Free Choice Act.
Specifically, he takes at Nadhim Khalil, the bossman of a Sunni Arab town called Thuluyah.
Another provocative thought is that we ought to formally divide the execute.
An interesting related issue that can only be speculated about is to what degree would we see much closer political integration between Arab states if he had more political democracy.
This doesn't effect Arab Israelis who are members of Zionist parties or the Communist Party.
UPDATE: NB, a higher ed buddy writes it to warn against conflating the student loan issue and the tax credit issue the way that first article I linked to does.
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