rsmccain.blogspot.com - 3/10/2009
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"If one does not read enough economic illiteracy from Paul Krugman's Monday column in the New York Times, there always is David Brook's Tuesday column, which presents the neo-con (emphasis on 'con') view of the world. One must remember that the editorial writers at the Times actually believe ...
thinkprogress.org - 3/8/2009
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Too Bad the 2×4 He’s Using is Only Metaphorical
The Sundries Shack —
If it’s Tuesday, it must mean that it’s time for Stacy McCain to kick the stuffing out of another senseless David Brooks column . Brooks’ subject this time is the “midguided” Republican desire for private citizens to spend their money as they please, for private investors to decide where to invest their money, and for the Democrats to at least provide a smidgen of proof that government intervention in the private sector can bring us out of a recession. Remember, as you read Stacy’s pummeling of the economically-illiterate Brooks, that the New York Times is paying Brooks a ...
Enjoy The Cartoon
Riehl World View —
... as I've ever read anywhere this side of DailyKos. If a prominent and supposedly conservative blogger believes the right of government to dis-possess any Church of its property and business for the good of the state is a subject in need of intelligent debate, you've already ceded so much ground as to have lost the war. Consequently, there's about as much intelligence as there is principle in that side of the argument, too. And that's not very damned much, I'm afraid.
Via email - Stacy McCain with more on Brooks.
The next time I hear from John ...
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