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This Week: Krugman Pushes Back Against False Equivalencies
lnmc.crooksandliars.com - 10/19/2008
This Week: Krugman Pushes Back Against False Equivalencies
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Download | Play    Download | Play (h/t Dave) Finally, someone pushes back against the media's need to create false equivalencies! Nobel Economics Prize shortlister Paul Krugman tries to make a cogent point about how there are those in the Republican Party who simply cannot accept ...
Krugman Helped Us Understand Trade
online.wsj.com - 10/14/2008
Krugman Helped Us Understand Trade
— online.wsj.com — The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced yesterday that the 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in... Economic Sciences is Paul Krugman. A professor at Princeton University, Mr. Krugman is known to the American public mainly for his column in the New ... (more) Krugman Helped Us Understand Trade

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crookedtimber.org - 10/16/2008
Exploding Heads Deathmatch: There Can Be Only One
— crookedtimber.org — Many thanks to the CT readers who’ve come up with examples of wingnuts’ heads exploding as a... result of Paul Krugman’s Nobel prize. Now, it’s decision time. I’ve narrowed the field down to the five most impressive ... (more) Exploding Heads Deathmatch: There Can Be Only One

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delong.typepad.com - 10/14/2008
Crooked Timber Is Having a Contest!
— delong.typepad.com — Henry Farrell writes: The Name of This Band is Exploding Heads : As Kieran notes in comments... below, the comments thread to Tyler Cowen’s (perfectly reasonable) Krugman post is pretty hilarious. But given Krugman’s place of pride in ... (more) Crooked Timber Is Having a Contest!

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Understanding the Right #1
d r i f t g l a s s — ... always equally wrong about everything all the time.” Doesn’t matter the who or what. The when or how. Doesn’t matter who was driving the bus towards the cliff and who was waving the red flags, throwing their bodies in front of it, trying to make it stop. Doesn’t matter who was trying to douse the conflagration with hoses shredded by 20 year of Reaganism, and who was lobbing milk cartons full of jellied gasoline onto the bonfire. It is the lie the hagged-out Cokie Roberts pushes week after week after week on “This Week…” It is the ...

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