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Tag Archives: politics

Apr
16
2009

Simplify the Tax Code

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

Mar
31
2009

Restructuring. Please wait.

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

Mar
24
2009

Beginning at the End

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

Mar
20
2009

Politically Correct

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

Mar
19
2009

N-400 to the bottom of the pile

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

Mar
19
2009

Progressive?

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.

Mar
14
2009

Ever expanding circles

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.

Mar
14
2009

Playing the Game

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