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Liberal Democratic Pro-choice Feminist Agnostic Jew from New York who was born in Puerto Rico, unelectable anywhere in Texas.
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With notably rare exceptions.
**Jeb Bush**: _["When it comes to my brother,...
**Jeb Bush**: _["When it comes to my brother, there's one thing I know for sure. He kept us safe."](https://www.eschatonblog.com/2019/09/the-summer-of-shark.html)_ ---- #noted
Wow. Think how many notches Roberts must have on his gavel.
**Heather Boushey** directs us to **Sarah...
**Heather Boushey** directs us to **Sarah Miller**: _["About 15k people died between 2014-2017 as the result of states deciding to not expand Medicaid eligibility through the ACA](https://twitter.com/smilleralert/status/1153274124401348608)_: **Sarah Miller, Sean Altekruse, Norman Johnson, and La...
Assume you mean
post-2000 prime-age female labor-force participation DECLINE
Equitable Growth alumnus **Nick Bunker** sends us...
Equitable Growth alumnus **Nick Bunker** sends us to the always-valuable **Brookings Hamilton Project** on how the post-2000 prime-age female labor-force participation define was not due to anything other than a weak economy in which it was hard to get well-paying jobs: _[Trends in Women’s Labor ...
You should also call out BlacKkKlansman which says the same thing only with more emotional and visual impact, but less data.
**Rory McVeigh, David Cunningham, and Justin...
**Rory McVeigh, David Cunningham, and Justin Farrell**: _[Political Polarization as a Social Movement Outcome: 1960s Klan Activism and Its Enduring Impact on Political Realignment in Southern Counties, 1960 to 2000](https://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/cunningham/mcveigh_et_al_asr_2014_kkk_re...
The Bears Stern link has rotted but I found it at https://seekingalpha.com/article/79890-lehman-and-the-failed-hedges
June 3, 2008: Ten Years Ago on Grasping Reality
* _[Impeach George W. Bush. Impeach Him Now](http://www.bradford-delong.com/2008/06/impeach-george.html)_: Outsourced to Matthew Yglesias: "Though unusually juvenile in its phrasing, the underlying sentiment is typical of what I've called the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics—the conservative c...
better link to the article is http://blog.danieldavies.com/2002/10/move-over-son-professionals-are-here.html
Daniel Davies (2002): Evopsych Considered Harmful!: Weekend Reading/Hoisted from the Archives
**Weekend Reading**: **Hoisted from the Archives**: Convincing fifteen years ago. Convincing today. Telling just-so stories to reinforce prejudicial hierarchical judgments you won't examine rationally is no way to go through life, son: **Daniel Davies** (2002): D-squared Digest: "**Move over so...
Sounds like a job for a good AI.
**Comment of the Day: Tracy Lightcap**: _A Note on...
**Comment of the Day: Tracy Lightcap**: _A Note on Coursera CEO Rick Levin's Clark Kerr Lecture..._: "I think Thoma's course is indicative of the kinds of courses that succeed on-line... >...There appear to be two varieties: required courses and puzzle courses. If an on-line course is required, ...
The fastest growing job segment is alternate energy and this man and the GOP are leaving it to the Chinese by default.
**Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage**: _What...
**Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage**: _What Should Democrats Say About Jobs?_: "Trump had a good message on jobs: the Chinese stole them from you and I'll get them back... >...This is not an especially _correct_ message, but it's both plausible and galvanizing. It works. So what should th...
For the record, 1933 Jewish population of Europe was about 1.7% https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005161 and "The Muslim population of Iraq is approximately ... 15–20 percent Arab Sunni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Iraq
Given the relative numbers, I will leave someone else to figure out how many of the 15-20% are in John Podhoretz death criteria.
(Early) Monday Smackdown: Yes, John Podhoretz Is a Jerk--and an Idiot...
Outsourced to: **Robert Waldmann**: _[Podhoretz][]_: "John Podhoretz who wrote... >>What if the tactical mistake we made in Iraq was that we didn't kill enough Sunnis in the early going to intimidate them and make them so afraid of us they would go along with anything? Wasn't the survival of Sunn...
I assume the full statement ends with "And fuck you Trumps."
Guest Post: Joshua Gans: The University of Toronto May Be Able to Help You...
**Joshua Gans:** "The Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto... >...is offering to help scholars and students impacted on by the new US immigration restrictions. We would like to hear from anyone who: >* Can no longer return to the US to continue their academic position or studies i...
Interesting the Google Translate won't translate this. What does the AI know that we don't?
Gaudete! Dies Natalis Solis Invicti!
I'm sure that Rogoff has a secret spreadsheet to back up his conclusions.
Will the U.S. Economy Boom Over the Next Four Years?
The very sharp Ken Rogoff predicts a boom over the next four years: "The biggest missing piece... is business investment, and if it starts kicking in... output and productivity could begin to rise very sharply.... You don’t have to be a nice guy to get the economy going.... It is far more likel...
As Buffy said, “You know what they say. Those of us who fail history, doomed to repeat it in summer school.”
Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938: Hoisted from the Archives
**Time** (1939): _[Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938][]_: "What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to Germany in less than six years was applauded wildly and ecstatically by most Germans... [Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938]: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539-1,00.html >...He...
I agree. About a dozen of the questions were hard to answer not because of my beliefs but they are not yes/no. The market is better than the government in some cases and not in others.
If I say wasteful government programs, I am thinking of carried interest and 75% of the military.
I think religion is generally a bad government policy.
Christianity vs Greek is comparing eggs and olives. There is about 99 ways in which Christianity has influenced us for every Ancient Greek document.
**Live from La Farine:** [Political...
**Live from La Farine:** [Political Coordinates](https://twitter.com/delong/status/622436145167646720): My political coordinates are 47.2% Left, 61.1% Liberal: http://t.co/JZOxvqEBhV— J. Bradford DeLong (@delong) July 18, 2015
You include Cato but not Heritage, but I don't see why your simple solution would keep out Fox, Koch News, News Max, etc. Reality has a liberal bias.
Hoisted from the Archives: Let Us Remember How Awful the American Press Corps That Covers Elections Is: Yes, We Are Looking at You, Washington Post, and at You, Perry Bacon Jr.
**January 6, 2008:** This Is Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...: Journalismus als Beruf, or Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?: Chris Hayes and Ezra Klein watch the toddlers on the bus--the American campaign press corps. The only solution I see is simply to shut them all down: the mode...
If I understand what you mean, I believe most Microsoft users predate you.
Ad hominem sub type guilt by association
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Guilt_by_association
Widely used by McCarthy also Palin (as in paling around with terrorists)
e.g. "your mother wears combat boots"
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?: Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard Edition
Why do the *Weekly Standard's* writers work so hard to persuade me that they lack both intelligence and honor? I mean, they work really hard to do so--and they do so quite effectively. Let's back up, and start with one of my favorite readings from Thomas Nagel (2012), *Mind and Cosmos*: >If I d...
Natural mistake. He is White.
Silly person. If she were a business, the she couldn't compete as an amateur in the Olympics.
Romney's Tax Return Throws Rafalca Under the Bus!
Henry Blodget: >Romney Rafalca Horse Tax Deduction: Back in 2010, Mitt Romney deducted the cost of maintaining (feeding, brushing, training) his wife's show horse, Rafalca, as a business expense. A lot of people ridiculed the idea that Rafalca was a business, arguing that, because Rafalca didn't ...
FTW
$7,204,114 of Mitt Romney's 2011 Adjusted Gross Income Is Missing!
It has vanished since January. Rick Newman: >The Mysteries in Mitt Romney's Tax Return: Final 2011 return: Adjusted gross income: $13,696,961; Total federal tax paid: $1,935,708; Effective federal tax rate: 14.1 percent >Preliminary 2011 return (released in January): Adjusted gross income: $20,90...
You are a good person. You carefully explain why they are wrong. However you mistake a lie for a misstatement and a con for a mistake.
The real question is who benefits from this con.
Paul Krugman Asks a Question: On the "Austrian" Hatred of Fractional Reserve Banking, Paper Money, etc. Weblogging
Paul Krugman asks a question: >Ron Paul on Money Market Funds: [T]he Ron Paul link, in which [Ron Paul] condemned fractional reserve banking, prodded me to ask a question I’ve been meaning to ask: How do the Austrians propose dealing with money market funds? >I mean, it has always been a peculiar...
You libruls just don't get it. Romney just wants a level playing field. He wants Obama to stop telling the truth about him. After all, he had never told the truth about Obama.
Greg Sargent: Republicans Lie, All the Time, About Everything
Greg Sargent: >Fact checking for thee, but not for me: Get this: The Romney campaign’s position is now that the Obama camp should pull its ads when fact checkers call them out as false — but that Romney and his advisers should feel no such constraint. This is not an exaggeration. This is really t...
I think you are wrong. Romney would be a lot less of a threat to the nation if he had to carry his 4.67814371257 tons of gold around.
Barry Eichengreen vs. Paul Ryan
[Barry Eichengreen](http://tinyurl.com/3npuw5d) Fortunately I don't have to write on the merits of returning to the gold standard, because I already have: tinyurl.com/3npuw5d .— Barry Eichengreen (@B_Eichengreen) August 24, 2012 One thing that Barry does not note is that real Randites--like Pau...
Gold only currency will be part of the platform. Will you help in getting the Traditional Justice plank accepted. It reads: Renewable Forestry products (wood) should be used in the Thermal Execution of Witches.
Paul Krugman: Golden Ferrets, I Mean Fetters
Paul Krugman: >Golden Ferrets, I Mean Fetters: Well, Romney did compare the Tea Party to a ferret in a dishwasher. >But seriously, it appears that a push for a return to the gold standard — the Golden Fetters that played such a large role in propagating the Great Depression — is going to be part ...
As Tom points out, Ann Romney is his representative on Lady things and she is too much of a Lady to talk about Lady things.
Daily Kos: Shocker! Romney campaign can't find anyone 'appropriate' to talk about lady things
Kaili Joy Gray sends us to Andrea Mitchell: >We should point out that we have been trying to get the Romney campaign to join this debate today, and they have said that they don't have an appropriate spokesperson, but we will keep trying. And comments: >What?!?!? Mitt Romney's campaign can't find ...
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