highclearing.com - 12/7/2008
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Sully finds a graph: Even during what conservative hawks insist on calling "America's holiday from history," the Clinton 90s, the country never stopped spending Cold-War levels of money on the military. Meanwhile, the US is now spending more than ever to prosecute relatively tiny wars whose ...
Warren, redux
washingtonmonthly.com 12/18/2008 — WARREN, REDUX.... After having had a chance to sleep on it, does Barack Obama's decision to invite Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his presidential inauguration look any better? Actually, no. I'm probably even more annoyed about it now...
Clinton's eligibility, redux
stubbornfacts.us 11/22/2008 — In a post last week, I suggested that the sinecure clause may bar the appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. (Not that I think she wants the gig anyway.) Clinton was last elected to the Senate in 2006; if the pay of the Secretary of ...
About that oath, redux
washingtonmonthly.com 1/22/2009 — ABOUT THAT OATH, REDUX.... OK, so Chief Justice John Roberts had a little trouble administering the presidential oath of office yesterday. Barack Obama has been gracious about the whole thing, telling ABC News, "Well, listen, I think we were up...
Biggest. Tax Cut. Ever. (redux)
washingtonmonthly.com 2/23/2009 — BIGGEST. TAX CUT. EVER. (REDUX).... We talked a week ago about the tax-cut provisions of the economic stimulus package, and how it turns out that President Obama proposed and passed one of the largest tax cuts in American history --...
Wasteland Redux
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/9/2009 — Sorry to ruffle Rose's feathers with my reference to MIlorganite, which keeps the deer away from my shrubs. Perhaps the deer have been reading her posts. But I am glad we're finally getting into some big numbers, like $200 million. As everyone knows, ...
Fixing the GOP Redux
outsidethebeltway.com 11/11/2008 — Stacy McCain has a tongue-in-cheek rebuttal to my post on the Republican Party’s future in which he notes that Sarah Palin graduated college, some non-Southern states voted for McCain, and than some non-rednecks agree with Palin on some ...
Drunk Drivers Need A Better Press Agent, Redux
smalldeadanimals.com 1/8/2009 — Remember this great moment in race-based justice the next time a drunk annihilates a family on a provincial highway, and the cry goes up (again) for "stiffer sentences". A Saskatchewan man whose two young daughters froze to death after he...
No liberals on the teevee, redux
washingtonmonthly.com 2/7/2009 — NO LIBERALS ON THE TEEVEE, REDUX.... In late January, as the House debated the economic stimulus package, ThinkProgress did an analysis that found a clear imbalance: the major cable networks invited far more Republican lawmakers to talk about the ...
Lessons learned, redux
washingtonmonthly.com 2/14/2009 — LESSONS LEARNED, REDUX.... As part of his ongoing offensive against the man who defeated him, John McCain continued to lash out at President Obama yesterday, blasting the economic stimulus package poised to become law. As the Senate debate was wrapping...
Krugman: The Great Depression Redux
angrybear.blogspot.com 1/5/2009 — Krugman correctly lays out the problem: We are facing the second Great Depression. Agreed again that simple monetary policy is not enough. Agreed also that a stimulus package is certainly needed; otherwise the domino effect of shrinking businesses ...
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