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Nothing brings out the Republican Party's concern for children like the national debt. Last week, when the White House increased its 10-year deficit projection by $2 trillion, some members of the GOP shifted from discussing the threat Obama's health ...
From CONOR CLARKE,
Slate,
2 Sep 2009
This has been my second time guestblogging on the Dish, and it did not disappoint. I probably got more angry emails this time than last time. But I don't mind, and it seems to me that the great thing about blogging -- especially here -- is the ...
MCCAIN: Well, I think that what we are talking about here is do -- are we going to have groups that actually advise people as these decisions are made later in life and …
STEPHANOPOULOS: That's not in the bill.
MCCAIN: But -- it's been taken out, ...
by Conor Clarke
So here's the second point: The fact that a lot of the cars being purchased are foreign should affect how we tally up the stimulus benefit. Economic stimulus present a coordination problem for the nations of the world. If one nation ...
by Conor Clarke
On one side of the left we have heavyweights like Paul Krugman arguing that Obama "has been weirdly reluctant to make the moral case for universal care." And on the other side of the left we have "Democratic strategists" bopping the ...
by Conor Clarke
Interesting op-ed in the Washington Post about whether it would be constitutional for the federal government to pass an individual health-care mandate -- i.e., a requirement that everyone purchase a health-care plan. Of course, no ...
There is much debate about what genre Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds deserves. Is it comedy? Philosophy? Revenge fantasy? Silly exploitation? David Denby, for instance, takes that position that it's "lodged in an uneasy nowheresville" between ...
That question is answered here. I should say that I do find it quite surprising that 16% of the birthers actually approve of the job Obama is doing as president. This suggests to me that they might not understand the upshot of the question. Meanwhile, ...
by Conor Clarke
If you're sick of hearing about Nazis and death panels and health care, here's something else entirely: A piece in the New York Times about a championship runner whose accomplishments are being challenged because she might not qualify ...
My colleague Derek Thompson lays out some smart reasons why I'm wrong to call Cash for Clunkers a success. I have no quibble with one of those reasons (letting the government scrap the cars means destroying perfectly healthy capital) although that ...
