November 2008
McCain Campaign Multiple Choice →
Is this (a) between truth and self-deception, (b) between self-deception and mendacity, or (c) beyond mendacity? From Ed Morissey: Team McCain conference call/a>: With a mere four days…
Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review Is for Obama... →
She cannot say that she is for Obama because of who pays her paycheck, but, in light of this week’s news from Larry Eagleburger and the hermeneutic method of Leo Strauss, the implications of this…
Ross Douthat vs. Joe the Plumber →
Ross Douthat: Obama and the Race Card - Ross Douthat: Think about it this way: Maybe the “Joe the Plumber” line is a super-coded attempt to play the race-and-welfare card. Hell, maybe all of…
Nitpicker: A One-Man Southern Strategy →
Michael McDonald: Early Voters Deluge States →
Ezra Klein: Azeroth Is a Blue State →
Justin Fox: Consoling ourselves through blogging... →
Menzie Chinn: Some Additional Observations on the... →
Regnery: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the... →
Paul Krugman: The Widening Gyre →
October 2008
James Fallows: After the Obama Infomercial →
John Holbo: Which Sort of Conservative Was Hayek... →
Chris Shays Gets Off the Straight Talk Expres →
Leonid Teytelman: Obama For a Sound Economy →
Leonid Teytelman asks: Obama For a Sound Economy:Barack Obama has repeatedly said that he will lower taxes for 95% of Americans. Those making $250,000 or above will see their tax rates…
Berkeley Housing Symposium: Comment on Leamer and... →
Moderator: Case Papers: Leamer, Shiller Discussants: Hall, Wilcox, DeLong In Ed Leamer’s formulation, our eleven recessions since World War II—for Robert Hall and his business-cycle dating…
John McCain: Dishonest and Dishonorable →
So much so that Reagan chief-of-staff Ken Duberstein is voting for Obama: Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Friday he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama…
Obama Buys Airtime in Arizona →
John Dickerson of Slate says that McCain campaign pollster Bill McInturff’s declaration that the race is effectively tied is somewhere between truth and self-delusion. Chris Cilizza does not buy…
Wall Street Journal Crashed-and-Burned Watch... →
Why oh why can’t we have a better press corps? Outsourced to James Fallows: An essay by someone who has never worked in a political campaign (updated) - James Fallows: From [Fouad Ajami on] the…
Cutler and DeLong: Obama Can Cure Health Care's... →
Harvard Kennedy School - David M. Cutler and J. Bradford DeLong commentary: Obama Can Cure Health Care’s Ills: October 29, 2008 Forbes.com Every other North Atlantic country spends less than half…
Bob Hall Says: Capital Requirements →
Berkeley mortgage conference: Bob Hall says: “Capital requirements! We need bigger and better procyclical capital requirements—for all financial institutions and not just commercial banks. Capital…
David Ignatius - Alphas in Their Bunkers →
There Is at Least One Thing Lawrence Eagleburger... →
I don’t know of any other things he won’t do for the Republican Party, but he won’t endorse Sarah Palin: Eagleburger Blisters Palin: “Of Course” She’s Not Ready: A former Republican Secretary…
We Want Our Felix Salmon!! →
Unfortunately, I have not only never bought a copy of Portfolio, I do not believe that I have ever seen a copy of Portfolio. But let me join my voice to that of Tyler Cowen: Marginal…
Why Oh Why Can't We Have Better Press Corps? →
Jim VandeHei and John Harris assume a defensive crouch, and promise to slant their coverage more toward mcCain and other Republicans in the future: Why McCain is getting hosed in the press:…
Economist Equity Graph Pr0n →
Calculated Risk: Comparing Stock Market Crashes: Reader Will sent me this graph comparing four stock market crashes. This is an epic crash.
We Have Always Been at War with Eurasia! (Matthew... →
Matthew Yglesias gets snookered by the Orwellian right: Matthew Yglesias: Serfdom Correction: It’s been pointed out to me by several friends that The Road to Serfdom doesn’t actually make…
Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned Watch (David... →
A commenter writes: David Ignatius is completely insane. I mean, that is an insane understanding of how markets and capitalism works. Clearly, children and young adults cannot be allowed to read…
Isaiah Thompson: The Fishtown Effect →
Henry Farrell: Nixonland: The Panel →
Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland: An Author Meets... →
Matthew Yglesias: Sanchez v. Goldfarb: Rick... →
John McCain: Dishonest and Dishonorable →
Duncan Black: Eschaton: Nobody Could Have Predicted: And this time I mean it. Really nobody could have predicted that a Republican candidate for president would try to win by tying himself to…
John McCain: Dishonest and Dishonorable →
For choosing an unvetted pit bull as his running mate. And it is no surprise when the natural thing happens: PIT BULL TURNS ON MCMAVERICK: The last straw for the vice-presidential candidate…
This, My Friends, Is a Presidential Candidate We... →
Joan Walsh: Joan Walsh: Clinton shared the candidate’s measured, investigative approach to the financial crisis in September: calling his advisors, calling Clintons’ advisors, calling both…
Roger Cohen: Barack Obama's American Story →
Lisa Simeone: Sarah Palin's Foreign Affairs... →
Kenneth Chang: Scotch Tape Unleashes X-Ray Power →
Accessing AT&T Wi-Fi →
Griffin Technology: iTalk Sync →
Martin Feldstein: The Stimulus Plan We Need Now →
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?... →
Why friends don’t let friends read Slate: time to call “bullshit” on John Dickerson: The McCain campaign is unusually upbeat. Does it have reason to be?: Where do we plot the mindset of the…
Tom Toles Is a National Treasure →
Run Like the Wind, Mr. Skittles! (Omnibus via... →
TBogg does not say: Invasion of the Obama Snatchers: Writing from his negro-proof panic room (which doubles as the laundry room when his wife send him out to get milk) sweaty, disheveled,…
Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cosma Shalizi R'lyeh Wgah'nagl... →
Ghost Peaks, Buried in Ice, in Antarctica. Cosma Shalizi writes: Ghost Peaks, Buried in Ice: [T]his has me terrified: It is perhaps the last great Antarctic expedition - to find an…
Tom Watson: And Lay Bare the Secret Heart of... →
Good Title! →
Mauricio Drelichman of the University of British Columbia is speaking in the 211 seminar on Monday. His topic is “Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Default in the Age of Philip II,…
Ezra Klein: McCain's Racism →
Will Wilkinson Resists His Telos! →
What duties and obligations do we have to our creator? Will Wilkinson says: none: Let’s Measure Meaning!: “I don’t know why we are here,” Ludwig Wittgenstein, the grimly mystical Austrian…
John McCain: Dishonest, Dishonorable, Ignorant,... →
Aimai is a much braver woman with a much stronger stomach than I am. Aimai: If I Ran the Zoo: Neck and Neck: This has to be neck and neck for the worst two commercials of McCain’s campaign….
This Is an Attack Ad We Can Believe in, My... →
