forbes.com - 11/21/2008
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In economic crises, watch out for government expansion.
zombietime.com - 11/17/2008
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zombietime.com —
Victory in Iraq Day November 22, 2008 We
won. The Iraq War is over. I declare November...
22, 2008 to be "Victory in Iraq Day." (Hereafter known as "VI Day.") By every measure, The United States and coalition forces have conclusively defeated all ...
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Victory in Iraq Day, November 22, 2008
change.gov - 11/19/2008
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change.gov —
The Obama-Biden Plan Barack Obama and Joe Biden
will responsibly end the war in Iraq so that...
we can renew our military strength, dedicate more resources to the fight against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and invest in our economy at home. ...
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Iraq | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
washingtonpost.com - 11/20/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 17, 2008;
4:43 PM The U.S. military would require two to...
three years to remove its roughly 150,000 troops and equipment from Iraq safely, and the timing of that withdrawal should be based on security ...
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Mullen: U.S. Would Need More Than 2 Years for Iraq ...
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WHY GUNS ARE BETTER THAN BUTTER: Over at Forbes, I explain why war is no longer the health of the s…
Instapundit —
WHY GUNS ARE BETTER THAN BUTTER: Over at Forbes, I explain why war is no longer the health of the state.
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... argues at The Moderate Voice. Arguments that spending on a war is more catastrophic than devoting tax dollars to stimulus programs fall short for Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds , who points that wars are at least tempered by public opinion. Periods of war have traditionally brought new liberal policies granting rights for women and minorities, The Corner’s ...
Shorter Ole Perfesser Reynolds
Sadly, No! —
Why Guns Are Better Than Butter
America is sliding toward becoming a communist state; we can only stop this by starting more wars. ...
Warfare
Daily Pundit —
Why Guns Are Better Than Butter - Forbes.com
So the notion that war is the friend of big government seems questionable to me, based on things that have happened in the past century at least. Rather, it seems that economic crisis, and economic intervention, is the thing to worry about if you want to keep government under control. Which bodes poorly for current times, when the war’s won but the bailouts are coming fast and furious. Eternal vigilance–especially now.
On the other hand, a lot of these social service/economic ...
Jonah Goldberg on opportunity costs
SCSUScholars —
The problem with guns is that we pay for them with butter.Yes, of course we do; we draw that graph in principles still. That's not a problem but reality. Goldberg is commenting, by the way, on Glenn Reynolds' discovery of Wagner's Law. That is not generally very well received in the public finance literature, yet tests of it persist in journals to this day.
Guns and Butter
Mudville Gazette —
Glenn Reynolds on that topic in Forbes.
Read the whole thing for a good discussion. I'll offer a bit of a quibble on this line, however: Truman fought in Korea and lost the next election. LBJ had to give up the White House over Vietnam. George H.W. Bush won in Iraq and enjoyed 90% approval ratings but lost the next election anyway.There's an exception to that rule - F.D.R., whose (depression-ending) leadership through WWII didn't cost him much in the way of voter support. Of course, in those days the media were more inclined to ...
Happiness is a Warm Gun, Part 437
If I Ran the Zoo —
Shorter Ol' Perfesser: "That government is best that kills most." Update: Pantload weighs in here. Money shot: But this is a very thorny argument and I've got a very busy morning. So I'll just reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks.
War Doesn't Expand Government?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Now, after eight years of Bush, Glenn Reynolds is suddenly worried about big government. Now that defending libertarianism will not hurt Republican power, he will rediscover his "principles." ...
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Guns v Butter
corner.nationalreview.com 11/21/2008 — Glenn Reynolds on why butter's a bigger threat than guns. An excerpt:
Now we've had over five years of war in Iraq, finally winding toward a successful conclusion, and in the process have spent a lot of money and made some changes in the law. But ...
Guns and Butter
mudvillegazette.com 11/21/2008 — Glenn Reynolds on that topic in Forbes .
Read the whole thing for a good discussion. I'll offer a bit of a quibble on this line, however: Truman fought in Korea and lost the next election. LBJ had to give up the White House over Vietnam. George ...
More vs less, guns vs butter
pajamasmedia.com 11/7/2008 — These chart from the Heritage Foundation illustrating the inexorable increase of government spending illustrates the terrible tension between tax rates and government “help”. Federal spending grew much faster than median income.
As ...
War Is Over If You Want It
attackerman.firedoglake.com 11/27/2008 — A Thanksgiving present from Baghdad: the Iraqi parliament has passed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) ending the war by 2011. Or, as AFP reports , possibly by May 2010 .
According to AFP, the SOFA's passage comes thanks to the ...
"The Iraq war is over. We won."
wizbangblog.com 11/17/2008 — This message comes from Michael Yon who called Glen Reynolds to give him the news you probably haven't heard anywhere in the mainstream media: "THE WAR IS OVER AND WE...
Victory In Iraq Day
confederateyankee.mu.nu 11/25/2008 — The Iraq Wars are over, and we have won. Let me say that again. WE HAVE WON THE IRAQ WARS. And yes, I do mean to use the plural, as we have, along with our allies, won three intertwined...
Get ready to change the name to CryVAW...
mudvillegazette.com 11/21/2008 — As the panties begin inevitable twist : Reporting from Washington -- Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq ...
"The Iraq War is Over. We Won."
confederateyankee.mu.nu 11/14/2008 — Though he'd been on a mission all day and was about to drop, Mike Yon just called from Iraq to let me know that the war is over, and we've won. Whatever it is that is left of violence, there...
How Obama Won Iraq
mudvillegazette.com 12/1/2008 — Heh .
It might be helpful for folks to understand that there were always at least two Iraq wars - one, a military conflict in Iraq and two, a political pissfest in Washington. The U.S. military won one of them in 2007; the Democrats won the other ...
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