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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 2/6/2009
Liberals, Ideology, and Big Government
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Several years ago, in a piece that's long since vanished into The New Republic 's world-devouring archives, Jon Chait suggested that liberalism was, by its very nature, more pragmatic and less ideological than conservatism. (As you may remember, this contention was not met with universal  ...
Who Needs Big Government? (video)
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youtube.com - 2/6/2009
Who Needs Big Government? (video)
— youtube.com — An irreverent send-up of the right-wing attack on big government. Bring your sense of irony. For a... more serious discussion of these issues, see governmenti... (more) Who Needs Big Government? (video)
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centristcoalition.com - 2/3/2009
Centerfield: Reality collides with Republican ideology. Ideology loses. Tax cuts are inefficient.
— centristcoalition.com — Reality collides with Republican ideology. Ideology loses. Tax cuts are inefficient. A year ago, Mark Zandi, chief... economist at Moody's published this little remarked upon bombshell regarding the effectiveness of certain strategies surrounding ... (more) Centerfield: Reality collides with Republican ideology.  ...
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Liberals are liberals first
westernfrontamerica.com - 1/30/2009
Liberals are liberals first
— westernfrontamerica.com — The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how... children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind. (more) Liberals are liberals first
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The Corner on National Review Online:  What Happened to the Fact-Finders

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  Why Ideology Matters

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What Happened to the Fact-Finders
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] Friday, February 06, 2009 [image] What Happened to the Fact-Finders [ Jonah Goldberg ] Ross Douthat picks up an old fight with Jonathan Chait. 02/06 01:49 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2009. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us

Liberals and Empiricism
Matthew Yglesias — ... will take its cue from external events, and the decisions it arrives at could, in time, be cast aside through experimentation. Ultimately, those policies, whether they move left or right, will be measured against their effect on people’s lives, not the degree to which they bring the government closer to some long-ago agreed-upon vision. In time, those policies will be altered yet again to suit a changing world. This is known as progress. Today, Ross Douthat snarks: We’re only two weeks into the new age of liberalism, but so far, ...

Why Ideology Matters
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Ross on the stimulus: It's certainly possible to imagine - and hope for, from this administration - a liberalism that's more pragmatic and evidence-based than was George W. Bush's conservatism. But the debates that have dominated the first two weeks of the Obama Presidency ought to be an object lesson in why ideological preconceptions always matter, no matter how empirically-minded you aspire to be. Ideology is also easier. ...

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