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The President of the Chamber of Commerce throws a temper tantrum, threatens to ship all the jobs overseas if EFCA passes, and gives orders in public to all the Republicans in the Senate.
Archive for March, 2009
March 10th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
Peter Cohan: “Republican Socialism is the idea that he purpose of government is to enrich the top 1%.”
March 10th, 2009
Federal land use policy might be coming to your neighborhood — and it’s a good thing, too.
March 10th, 2009
Category: Moral philosophy
A score of infants die every year because parents forget that they are strapped into their car-seats. You can think about that as a problem with the parents, or with the car-seats. You can ask why the parents were so neglectful, or why the car-seats weren’t equipped with alarms.
March 9th, 2009
Category: Corruption in Washington
A good side effect of the recession: layoffs among corporate lobbyists.
March 9th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Mark Schmitt makes a good case for it, on purely partisan grounds.
March 9th, 2009
Category: Microeconomics and policy analysis
If 15 to 25 infants die in parked cars every year because their parents forgot there was someone in the baby carseat, than how about redesigning baby carseats?
March 8th, 2009
Why did terrorists in Pakistan attack Sri Lankan cricketers?
March 7th, 2009
Category: Financial crises
Is Obama going to allow himself to be forced into a second stimulus package?
March 7th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
Why not stimulate the economy (and protect poor urban minorities) by hiring a bunch of cops?