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Mickey Kaus (born 1951) is an American journalist and author best known for writing Kausfiles, a "mostly political" blog featured on Slate.com. Kaus is the author of The End of Equality and had previously worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The New Republic and Washington Monthly. Kaus attended Harvard Law School but has never practiced law. He has a brother, Stephen Kaus, who is a lawyer and occasional commentator on The Huffington Post. Kaus currently resides in Venice Beach, CA.

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Suckers of the Week

Concerns over quality have substantially altered the way Detroit launches new models. A case in point is the line of luxury midsized cars planned for this fall by Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile. Transaxle problems with these front-wheel-drive C-body ...

From MICKEY KAUS, Slate,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cadillac,  Buick,  General Motors

Did Fox Win the War?

MoveOn.org is launching a round of TV ads this week targeting Democratic House members who voted against the health care bill over the weekend. Thirty-nine Democrats voted against the bill, though MoveOn is starting by targeting only six fiscally ...

From MICKEY KAUS, Slate,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: MoveOn.org,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Mike Ross,  Rick Boucher,  Heath Shuler

Health Care Reform: Got Id?

"Abortion Dispute Could Derail Health Bill": Do you really think an abortion dispute will derail the massive health bill? Me neither. I think if the Democrats are scared to pass the health bill they will let an abortion dispute derail ...

From MICKEY KAUS, Slate,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Dick Morris,  U.S. Republican Party

Scozzafava and the Feiler Faster Thesis

FFT-NY-23: Was the NY-23 race--in which conservative third-party candidate Doug Hoffman's surge suddenly unsurged after the GOP candidate dropped out--an example of the  (which holds that voters now comfortably process new information and events with a ...

From MICKEY KAUS, Slate,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dede Scozzafava,  Michael Dukakis,  Lloyd Bentsen

Zombie Orszagism Returns to Kill Health Care Reform For Good?

The Obama Administration will find a way to blow health care reform yet. Mere Rhetoric notes a report that Obama aides plan to address Tuesday's election defeats by resurrecting Orszagism, the doctrine that health care reform is the way to control the ...

From MICKEY KAUS, Slate,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama,  Robert Gibbs

Why Are the Health Care Polls Going South?

Another seemingly grim health care poll--49/39 against, compared with 42/40 earlier in the month by the same pollster (Ipsos/McClatchy). The new poll eerily resonates with Rasmussen's increased margin of 54/42 against. But, again, part of the drop in ...

From MICKEY KAUS, Slate,  5 Nov 2009

Conservatives Against "Spiritual Health"

Conservatives against prayer ... Or, rather, against requiring health insurance in Obama's "exchanges" to cover prayer treatment ("religious and spiritual health care"). a) Yes, a government-run plan will always have to contend with this sort of ...

From MICKEY KAUS, Slate,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Sarah Palin

Mineola Man Survives N.J. Nuclear Holocaust!

The GOP fares better in Virginia and New Jersey as both states elect Republican governors. Thanks to alert reader KL, who speculates that not even the conservative Washington Times would try something that disoriented. I think it would be a stretch for ...

From MICKEY KAUS, Slate,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

Election 2009: Some Winners, Losers,

Loser: Obama, who tried to work his magic for Christie and discovered it wasn't there. (I don't buy the "he invested his prestige" line. A President is still allowed to try to help in a tight race. But he was clearly not a transformative presence in ...

From MICKEY KAUS, Slate,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  ACORN

Waiting For Goshen: Election Day Feed

**--Those are direct quotes. I am not aware of all internet traditions. ... 3:46 P.M. This is not the market share we paid for: After a big ad campaign, General Motors gets an estimated 21% market share in October. Edmunds.com predicted 22.4%. Kf ...

From MICKEY KAUS, Slate,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: General Motors

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