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Tag Archives: politics

Simplify the Tax Code

April
2009

New Majority is a site for non-crazy conservatives to plan their route back from the wilderness led by David Frum (a former speechwriter for Bush). It’s mostly pretty good and the crazies are (mostly) confined to the comments. Frum asked … Continue reading

Restructuring. Please wait.

March
2009

About 20 years ago, my country decided that it wasn’t very good at making cars any more and left the car making to other countries. It decided this after £11 billion in government subsidies and decades of restructuring. David Broooks … Continue reading

Beginning at the End

March
2009

At last, there is a reason to read Rolling Stone. As complex as all the finances are, the politics aren’t hard to follow. By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too … Continue reading

Politically Correct

March
2009

I’ve lost track… are conservatives for or against political correctness?

N-400 to the bottom of the pile

March
2009

This is outrageous. The House overwhelmingly approved on Thursday a near total tax on bonuses paid this year to employees of the American International Group and other firms that have accepted large amounts of federal bailout funds, rattling Wall Street … Continue reading

Progressive?

March
2009

I was fully expecting to come out as moderately conservative until about halfway through when they asked all the questions about leaving poor people out to die. Give it a try and report back.

Ever expanding circles

March
2009

Whereas the constitution sets clear boundaries on the authority of the Federal government. Whereas the federal government has no business defining basic mathematical constants. Resolved, that theories, definitions and celebrations of Π should be left to the various States.

Playing the Game

March
2009

I just watched the Cramer interview on The Daily Show. Awesome. Of the many, many blogs about the show, the most astute is Glen Greenwald’s in Salon who draws the broader picture – the only journalism happening on TV is … Continue reading