Who for 2012? Hu for 2012!

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Heh. Perhaps Hu Jintao should consider forming an exploratory committee for the 2012 Republican primary...According to Gallup, Communist, melamine exporting, beating us in the Olympics China is now more popular than Congressional Republicans: USA Today/Gallup Poll. Feb. 20-22, 2009. N=1,013 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3."Do you...

Reforming Rockefeller

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This kind of reform of draconian drug laws is, admittedly, a second best option. lower maximum sentences along with the treatment option would be preferable. Just increasing judicial discretion doesn't.

"Heh. He Said Beaver."

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In re: MoDo, what Chait and Yglesias and Benen said. In criticizing Dowd for focusing almost entirely on inane personal trivia larded with her bizarre gender obsessions, I might have.

Icelandic sagas

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Michael Lewis has a fascinating and horrifying piece in the current Vanity Fair on how Iceland went bankrupt.A handful of guys in Iceland, who had no experience of finance, were taking out tens of billions of dollars in short-term loans from abroad. They were then re-lending...
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Pleasant Surprises

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Diana Levine, a professional musician, developed gangrene after taking Phenergan through a direct injection and had her arm amputated below the elbow. A jury in Vermont held that the drug's.

Poles Flexible on Missile Defense

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Part of the Bush administration's strategy for "locking in" missile defense in case of a Democratic presidential victory was to conclude agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic that would be difficult for the Democratic victor to break. The thinking went that while Obama might be...
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The Two Myths of Marbury

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This interesting-looking (well, to me) Slate book club reminds me that I just read another recent book about Marbury that attempts to at least partially debunk the decision that Sloan.

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The Heir to My Vast Misfortune

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Named for the grandfathers he'll never have the good fortune to meet, John Galt Orrin Corliss Hayes Noon was born this morning at 4:06 a.m. He weighed in at 8 lb., 1 oz., and seems to be in fantastic health. Baby and father were both quite...

QOTD

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Tim Duy: For Bernanke and Geithner, there are no bad assets. Only misunderstood assets. Alternative:The saddest part of policymakers who cling to the notion of intrinsic housing values is that.

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