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November 11th, 2009

Obama at Ft. Hood

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Uncategorized

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Posted: Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
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November 11th, 2009

Gaming out Stupak

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Abortion

Even if the damned thing becomes law, why won’t insurance companies offer retroactive abortion-coverage riders? Termination is cheaper than carrying to term.

Posted: Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
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November 11th, 2009

A Veterans’ Day Poem

by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: Literature

To remind us of how this all started, and to remember those who went before us…

Posted: Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 11:04 am
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November 11th, 2009

The enemy of their enemies

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Religion and Politics

Christianists begin to make common cause with Islamists over gay rights and evolution.

Posted: Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 9:51 am
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November 10th, 2009

Why do Republicans oppose health care reform?

by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: Race & related -isms, Watching Conservatives, Wayward press

Surely it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the racial composition of the uninsured. Of course not.

Posted: Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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November 10th, 2009

Has Obama just paid Lieberman’s price?

by Andrew Sabl
Category: Afghanistan, Lying in politics

A conspiracy theory, a conjecture, call it what you will–but isn’t it possible that Lieberman’s price for his health-care vote is more troops for Afghanistan?

Posted: Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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November 10th, 2009

Dynamic concentration and file-sharing

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Uncategorized

Could dynamic concentration make copyright enforcement feasible?

Posted: Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 7:18 am
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November 9th, 2009

Federal domestic-partner legislation moving

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Uncategorized

With entirely Democratic sponsorship other than Susan Collins.

Posted: Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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November 8th, 2009

Pants-on-fire award: “Pelosi wants to put you in jail for not buying health insurance”

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, Watching Conservatives

In which a stupid lie is traced back to its source.

Posted: Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
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November 8th, 2009

Larry Summers flunks Ec 10

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Macroeconomic Policy, Microeconomics and policy analysis

Preferring shorter workweeks to layoffs is first-term microeconomics; it’s implied by the diminishing marginal utility of income. Why isn’t that obvious to Larry Summers?

Posted: Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
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