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And yes, Soullite seems to have bought into the FoxNews definition of "liberal", which is, essentially, "anybody we call a liberal."
Obama isn't anywhere near a liberal. There are less than 10 Senators that are liberal - maybe Franken and Sanders, but few others.
Pelosi at least knows what a liberal is, but she's hardly a true believer.
Assholes
Assholes. No mention in the story of how the influx of workers will help American citizens find work. No mention in NewsBusters about why being an asshole in regards to children isn't shitty. Assholes. The timing of the interview coincides with the Fortnight of Freedom the Catholic bishops have...
I heard Jon Stewart refer to austerity measures the other day as "sensible" and "centrist".
We've got a lot of work to do. Austerity measures are anything but sensible. They are a concoction of wealthy, right-wing economists who lie for a living.
(And yes, I think continuing to profess belief in an economic theory that has been thoroughly debunked constitutes "lying".)
Assholes
Assholes. No mention in the story of how the influx of workers will help American citizens find work. No mention in NewsBusters about why being an asshole in regards to children isn't shitty. Assholes. The timing of the interview coincides with the Fortnight of Freedom the Catholic bishops have...
Well, I'm a day late, but I share your frustration. vrcodger reads like somebody who feels the need to inject "historical context" into every argument. DeLong's talking about how there exist fundamental concepts underlying the physical sciences that are agreed upon by all working scientists, but there is no similar set of core knowledge in economics.
vrcodger simply ignores the core idea and sails off into an orgy of contextualism.
My personal background is in mathematics. Yes, I know that math has been studied for millenia. And still, modern mathematics has organized itself around the basic concepts of set theory. Yes, Newton, Gauss, Euler, Cauchy, etc., all did incredible work without 20th century set theory. That's not the point. Modern mathematics is organized around set theory.
And modern economics appears to be organized around...whatever rich people want to hear. We have a generation of economists driving the world's economy off a cliff and all they can do is collectively mock Keynes and praise Ayn Rand.
It's quite frustrating.
John Stuart Mill vs. the European Central Bank
We are live at Project Syndicate: John Stuart Mill vs. the European Central Bank: One of the dirty secrets of economics is that there is no such thing as “economic theory.” There is simply no set of bedrock principles on which one can base calculations that illuminate real-world economic outcomes...
" Eric said...
-Warming since 16,000 yr BP
-Cooling since 10,000 yr BP
-Cooling since 2,000 BP
-Warming since 100 BP"
That's a curious usage of the word "since".
If it is cooler today than it was a year ago today, it hasn't been "cooling since a year ago today".
I encourage you to return to common usage of the English language.
If you are a non-native English speaker, then you should be aware that the combination you claim is logically impossible.
"Economist" Russ Roberts: Liar Gullible
**UPDATE:** Russ Roberts writes that it's not his fault--that he wasn't lying to his readers--but that it's the *Daily Mail's* fault: the *Daily Mail* was lying to him: >Finally, Brad DeLong calls me a liar: Brad doesn’t like this post.... I had read (and linked to) this article from the Daily Ma...
Aliens is good, Terminator is better.
I find it hard to compare Titanic to the sci-fi films. Cross-genre comparisons are difficult to do meaningfully. (Which is part of why the 'Best Picture' award is so silly.)
"Aliens" Is James Cameron's Best Movie
That is all...
It's a lot easier to drop interest rates from the all-time highs that they were at from 1979-1980. Interest rates are so low today that dropping them further hardly seems like a solution.
When Will It Be "Morning in America"?
What if, starting in January of 2009, the unemployment rate were to have gone up by as much and then come down as much and as rapidly as unemployment did starting in January 1982? That's the red line. Recent history and the administration's unemployment forecast make up the blue line: Comments w...
"It would have been nice if Newt Gingrich had helped Bill Clinton deal with it back in 1995. It would have been nice if George W. Bush had dealt with it rather than amplified it in 2001. It would be nice if Republicans like Keith Hennessey would help Barack Obama deal with it now..."
But playing chicken made for lucrative politics!
Even the Best of the Republicans Are Pretty Awful...
Alan Kling and Greg Mankiw do Tyler Cowen no good service in recommending that he read Keith Hennessey--who is in full spin entropy-maximization mode, striving to reduce the level of the debate. And Tyler does his readers no good service in reproducing Hennessey: >Marginal Revolution: Obligatory ...
In case it's not clear, my response was to "Bob", whose comment had absolutely nothing to do with what I said.
Hit-and-run posts asserting intellectual superiority are not very interesting to me. "Bob" knows nothing about me, but presumes that he knows everything about me.
He's either a child or a poorly-programmed AI bot.
Barack Herbert Hoover Grover Cleveland Obama?
**UPDATE II**: It seems that it is not a freeze in non-security discretionary outlays, but rather an overall cap on non-security discretionary--which is a diffrent animal. And it seems that it is not an overall cap on non-security discretionary outlays, but instead an overall cap on non-security ...
You're a presumptuous little jerk, aren't you?
Barack Herbert Hoover Grover Cleveland Obama?
**UPDATE II**: It seems that it is not a freeze in non-security discretionary outlays, but rather an overall cap on non-security discretionary--which is a diffrent animal. And it seems that it is not an overall cap on non-security discretionary outlays, but instead an overall cap on non-security ...
Zasloff is attributing a Truman quote to Senator Simon.
Barack Herbert Hoover Grover Cleveland Obama?
**UPDATE II**: It seems that it is not a freeze in non-security discretionary outlays, but rather an overall cap on non-security discretionary--which is a diffrent animal. And it seems that it is not an overall cap on non-security discretionary outlays, but instead an overall cap on non-security ...
Are you saying the solution to too much lower and middle class debt is more gov't debt?
Posted by: Too Much Fed | July 12, 2009 at 10:53 PM
You're saying it isn't?
Let's keep in mind that for every debtor there is a creditor. More gov't debt could mean less lower and middle class debt, right?
Let's make this simpler: the government can take on a debt burden to stimulate the economy, and then citizens will be able to tackle their personal debt as a result. Right?
Fiscal Policy: The Obama Administration Is Not Making Much Sense These Days
Tim Geithner is not making sense: >Geithner: Too soon to decide on more stimulus | Reuters: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said it was too soon to decide whether the U.S. economy would need the help of a second round of government stimulus to recover from recession. "I don't think that'...
Goldman Sachs is making money hand over fist. Therefore, the economy must be in great shape.
QED
Here's a serious question: When Goldman Sach pays 99% of the salary of a man like Geithner over a 10 year period, and the US government pays 1%, where do his loyalties lie?
[Tim Geithner has *never* worked for an investment bank. He has always worked either for the government or the IMF...]
Fiscal Policy: The Obama Administration Is Not Making Much Sense These Days
Tim Geithner is not making sense: >Geithner: Too soon to decide on more stimulus | Reuters: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said it was too soon to decide whether the U.S. economy would need the help of a second round of government stimulus to recover from recession. "I don't think that'...
"She was offended by someone addressing her as "ma'am".
This is known as "faux outrage"."
"Search the transcripts of house and senate hearings over the years and you'll find thousands of uses of "sir" and "ma'am"."
There are thousands of times Senator Boxer has been addressed "sir"?
Senator Boxer's point is that she has earned the right to be addressed as "Senator", even if other people are comfortable being addressed as "sir" or "mam".
"Boxer made a fool of herself.
I suspect this is going to stick - and stick hard - to her for the rest of her life."
I see you're an expert at faux outrage.
Right on, Sen. Boxer
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. Sen. Barbara Boxer reminded a witness just whom he was addressing: During a terse exchange, as Boxer pressed Walsh on why the levees in New Orleans are still not repaired nearly four years after Hurricane Katrina, sh...
so, "he made... (38 words)...look foolish"
Did you learn sentence structure from a German?
(Yes, Froomkin did the job the ombudsman was supposed to do, before Hiatt et al. decided that the function of an ombudsman was to stand up for bad writers and mock readers.)
(Oh, he also did a bit of journalism to boot.)
Glenn Greenwald on the Washington Post's Firing of Dan Froomkin
The "why" is easy: he made too many people at the *Post* who were busy writing about how Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons or how there is more sea ice than there was a generation ago or how "opinions on shape of earth differ" look foolish. Glenn: >The Washington Post fires its best columnist. W...
I'm really trying to fathom this...so far I see comments from at least three different people expressing disdain and scorn at the notion of pseudonymous blogging. And all three of these people are doing so under pseudonyms.
Glad to see hypocrisy is alive and well. But really, don't you think it's just a bit too ridiculous to be worthwhile when you use a pseudonym to criticize the usage of pseudonyms? Or are you people so self-absorbed that you don't realize that such an argument is manifestly self-defeating and, indeed, makes you look idiotic?
Stay Classy Ed Whelan
by john blevins (aka, publius) So there you have it – I’ve been officially outed by Ed Whelan. I would never have done that to my harshest critic in a million years, but oh well. And to be clear – the proximate cause was that Whelan got mad that I criticized him in a blog post. More specifical...
Mankiw _thinks_ he has discovered that Sotomayor cannot manage money. But really, we've discovered (perhaps not for the first time?) that he's an idiot.
How many wealthy people put their money into their savings accounts????
"Most Unfair Attack on Sonia Sotomayor" Contest Entry: Greg Mankiw
The amount of s--- that has been thrown at Sonia Sotomayor is truly amazing. Now we have another entry in the "most unfair attack on Sonia Sotomayor" sweepstakes... Greg Mankiw writes: >Greg Mankiw's Blog: SCOTUS nominee is a spender: [T]here are two types of people: Some save and intertemporally...
This is a problem with the euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques".
Greg Sargent is reporting that the CIA is not attesting firmly to the accuracy of these documents.
We need more answers.
Pelosi knew in 2002
Nancy Pelosi, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. The CIA released documents that show that Nancy Pelosi was briefed on torture tactics in September of 2002, when she was the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee. According to the documents, the CIA started briefing othe...
"I guess I react to your comments because to some extent it was stuff like them that led to the Reagan/Rush/Bush/Fox/Gingrich revolution."
Really?
The so-called GOP revolution happened because the mass of people are intrinsically wedded to anti-intellectual beliefs?
I'm not buying it. I thought it was all about cutting taxes.
I'm tired of hearing how the key to power for Democrats is passive-aggressive behavior.
Republicans: The Stupid Party
I have said it before and I will say it again: no member of any university has any business being a Republican. I'll make it stronger: every member of every university has a strong positive moral duty to do whatever he or she can to undermine and transform the Republican Party. Satyam Khanna watc...
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