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Make Hamas decide whether it is more interested in the Palestinian cause or its own political power.
Archive for March, 2009
March 16th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
… agenda. Ross Douthat’s new post may be drawing him more scrutiny than he can bear.
March 16th, 2009
Ed Glaeser may be a terrific economist. But that doesn’t mean that he has any idea what he’s talking about. Maybe just the opposite.
March 16th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
12:15 Friday in the Dean’s Seminar Room at Boalt Hall.
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment.
Be there, or be square.
March 15th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Using budget reconciliation as a vehicle for health care reform would be clumsy. So the Democrats should do it only if the Republicans make it necessary. But they should make it clear that it takes 50 Senators plus the Vice-President to pass legislation, not 60.
March 14th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
The Medicaid-contraception-funding provision stripped from the stimulus bill could have prevented 12,000 abortions per year. Ross Douthat thinks that abortion is murder, but that preventing 12,000 of them is nothing to get excited about.
March 14th, 2009
Category: Drug Policy, Wayward press
Newspapers would be more useful if reporters made fewer laughable technical errors. Such errors can be avoided (only?) by recruiting a network of experts to vet stories on the fly and spot the howlers. But that would require a re-thinking of current ideas about journalistic integrity and independence.
March 13th, 2009
Category: Drug Policy
Went about as expected, except that it wasn’t on CNN after all, but on CNN International.
March 13th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Organizing for America – the post-campaign phase of the Obama campaign – looks to be ready to roll out. You can sign up on line.