Hilzoy explains why deficits matter for progressive politics:Total Spent On Debt Service: 405.9 billionYes, that's right: had we simply paid our bills on time, more or less, we would not only not be running a deficit, we would have $157.9 billion dollars to either refund...
Month: April 2007
If the hypnotic appeal of Sandy Belle won't be spoiled by some old-fashioned journalism, Garance gets to the bottom of it.Meanwhile, moving on to unintentional parody I should note that.
John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, Mary Surratt, and David Herold.
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You know what's funny? Free market theologians complaining about sufferings of "disadvantaged minorities" at the hands of people like . . . uh . . . John Muir. No, really..
From Jamie Spencer, Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer:"Judges Can't Sentence "Drugs" to Prison. Instead, they sentence people to prison. So let’s just be honest about it, and start calling it the.
Today is the 134th anniversary of the massacre in Colfax, Louisiana, where white and black militias clashed in an Easter Sunday battle that left scores of blacks dead. According to a racist historical marker located at the site of the killings, the white victory “marked...
There's been a lot of press recently about wrongly convicted men who have been exonerated by DNA evidence. No doubt, the work of the Innocence Project and other organizations that.
Obviously, Paul Wolfowitz's personal corruption is both bad in itself and undermines the anti-corruption principles he's purportedly trying to bring to the World Bank. As John Cassidy's recent profile informs.
One would think that the trite point above requires little elaboration, but apparently there is some controversy about the matter. Professor B, Jessica, Echidne, zuzu, Sara, Amanda, Lindsay, and Melissa (among others) explain. To distill two key arguments:Worrying about some sort of Blogger Code of...
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck