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MUCH BETTER Via Krugman. Maybe this was the plan all along. But the early language from Sen. Dodd (D-CT) and others was ominous.The question, now, is if Dodd and others will be willing to hold the line.
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MAKES NO SENSE I keep seeing news reports about what provisions of the Wall Street bailout Hank Paulson has or has not agreed. But to be blunt about it: Who cares?Does anyone honestly believe that if...
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FEINSTEIN IS FOR TORTURE? It would appear so:“I think that you have to use the noncoercive standard to the greatest extent possible.”
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PBS, CNN AND TORTURE From a footnote to Scott Horton's article "Justice After Bush" in the December issue of Harper's magazine:I myself was warned twice by PBS producers, in advance of appearances on...
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PINTER DEAD The New York Times says that Harold Pinter, the playwright behind THE CARETAKER, THE HOMECOMING and other seminal works is dead at 78.
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TAX RATES Via Brad DeLong, top Federal marginal tax rates from the 1920s to the present:The slight uptick shown in the final column (at right) is projected--it assumes the expiration of the Bush tax cuts.
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CLARIFY HIS MIND Doesn't it seem like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) would benefit more than a bit from a primary challenge?
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A THOUGHT Guess we better close all the libraries--with their public funding and their peculiar business models.I mean, how are private bookstores supposed to compete when the government just goes...
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ANOTHER JULIE MYERS?This is troubling. Especially if you read all the way to the bottom.
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PART OF THE PROBLEM? The New York Times says what must be said. Good for them.
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WISH GRANTED The next Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care event focusing on Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is Tuesday, November 24 at 11:30 a.m. in Hartford.
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NUMBERS There's been a lot of coverage of the hold Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has placed on the Bernanke reappointment. In each piece I've read, there's inevitably been a boilerplate line stipulating...
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AGAINST BERNANKE Brad DeLong, a long-time fan of Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, seems to be having second thoughts.
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BLAST FROM THE PAST Remember back when Rahm Emanuel used to tell other people they were stupid?Good times.
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TERRORISM CNN and I seem to have different ideas about what counts as terrorism:The pilot of a small plane that slammed into a building Thursday morning in Austin, Texas, set his house on fire...
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JUST SAYING Based on what I've read so far, Solicitor General Elena Kagan doesn't seem like that good a fit for the Supreme Court.
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GLAD SHE'S NOT PRESIDENTJust saying.Several major Democratic officials spoke positively about the proposal, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Noting that the State Department already...
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