Month: December 2012

More Guns in Schools Are Coming

Texas is a whole ‘nother country. That was an advertising slogan one to increase tourism. But there is some truth to it. And Texas is really a symbol for all the deeply red states where “Guns & God” (i.e.,...

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Whither the Cliff?

I wish I could tell you that I have some idea about what is going to happen with the Fiscal Cliff, but I’m finding the whole subject impenetrable. None of the reporting is very helpful and it’s hard to read beyond...

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Fiscal Chicken

Talk show hosts and other bloviators have spent hours giving their versions of the fiscal cliff. In fewer than 750 words, I’ll explain the truth. Taxes and the deficit are intertwined. If Congress can’t come up with...

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Stuff About Polls

I agree with Ed Kilgore that we cannot cover politics well if we simply ignore polls, and there’s a good debate to be had about how best to aggregate polls. But Kilgore ignored the subject that most interests me. And that...

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