Month: February 2008

Global No-Confidence Vote: Week 3 (con’t)

Well, another disastrous week on Wall Street in the books.  The Dow lost 500+ points this week, giving back most of the gains from the rate cut rally and almost back to the doom and gloom sub-12,000 level, which brings us...

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Not So Happy New Year

or, The Politics of Parades, or, a Parable for Primary Season Here on the shores of San Francisco Bay, we have a HUGE East Asian population. Is this news to anyone? San Francisco’s Chinatown is a long-established...

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Katrina on the Potomac

There are natural disasters and man-made disasters. There are those who upon the aftermath of disaster and see things as they should be. We call them conservatives. As I write this, the seeds of disaster and an aftermath of...

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Open Thread

Put yourself in John McCain’s shoes for a minute and help him select a running mate. I know the bench is weak, but I’m sure you can come up with something.

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Conservatives stymie credulity!

The CPAC meetings in DC have been showing up on television: on Fox News (which I watch as an equivalent to Comedy Central – as Craig Ferguson has said, it’s a channel where they make things up), on MSNBC, on CNN, and...

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