While I happily voted for Safeco Field back in the day (1995 I think), I have always believed that public subsidies for sports stadia is a dodgy pursuit at best. The common argument forwarded by proponents, that the stadium itself serves as an economic motor for...
Roy with a tribute and a summary of the reaction, classy and otherwise.
Bye, Hilzoy. Thank you. And thanks for this, as well.
So, as some of you knew and others surmised, today was supposed to be the day in which the wife and I enjoyed a Blessed Event, and introduced spawn into our happy home. For a variety of reasons too complicated to go into, we and our...
I wasn't sure if it was worth linking to Tom Schaller's analysis (using the great data collected by Tom Keck), as I assume it's well-known that the idea that conservative.
Glenn Reynolds et al. are very, very serious people....and as a commenter notes, the she also beat me to the even more egregious hackwork of Reynolds and his colleagues with.
Matt Duss has a nice post on Jeffrey Goldberg's recent silliness regarding Human Rights Watch. Yesterday Goldberg, following up on a WSJ editorial, gave the impression that by talking about.
This story summarizes an investigation into why 14 soldiers from one army base in Colorado have been convicted of or charged with 11 murders and two attempted murders over a.
Although he resists saying so directly, I think that the upshot of Travis Sharp's Parameters article on GDP and the defense budget would run something like this: People who want to lock in the defense budget as a percentage of GDP are liars, morons, or both....
Spencer has been following the F-22 debate closer than I; it appears that Carl Levin lacks the votes to outright kill the F-22, and thus that the potential for a.
Yep:In other words, [red-state Blue Dog Democrats are] concerned that the bill (a) costs too much overall and (b) will increase the deficit. And their proposed solutions to this are.