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Liberalism
KRUGMAN; ‘I DIDN’T MEAN THAT STIMULUS!’
3:25 AM 07/12/2011 by Mickey Kaus Paul Krugman now says that some kinds of Keynesian stimulus spending just aren’t as effective as other kinds. Specifically, he suggests, aid to state and local governments (to enable them to keep government workers in their jobs) is a sort of second-class stimulus: So what happened to the stimulus? Much of it
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THE GLOBAL TEMPER TANTRUM
Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. by Niall FergusonJuly 11, 2011 Yiorgos Karahalis / Reuters-LandovRiot police at a protest against austerity measures in Athens on June 28, 2011. This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable.
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THOMAS SOWELL – THE UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS THAT ARE KILLING OUR ECONOMY
July 12, 2011 Unknown Unknowns By Thomas Sowell When Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense, he coined some phrases about knowledge that apply far beyond military matters. Secretary Rumsfeld pointed out that there are some things that we know that we know. He called those “known knowns.” We may, for example, know how many aircraft
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HOW BAD ART KILLED GOOD LABOR REFORMS
JULY 9, 2011 Maine’s governor picks the wrong fight with unions. By ALLYSIA FINLEY The controversy in Augusta began with an anonymous letter faxed to the office of Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage. The 7-by-36 mural in the lobby of the Department of Labor “is nothing but propaganda to further the agenda of the Union
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PAWLENTY – BEYOND MINNESOTA NICE
JULY 8, 2011 Beyond Minnesota Nice Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty brags that as governor he stared down Democrats on taxes and spending, but can he sell it to conservative voters? By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Ask Mitt Romney to opine about his time managing a blue state, and the former Massachusetts governor will mostly take
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MICHELE BACHMANN – QUEEN OF THE TEA PARTY
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Queen of the Tea Party The presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann Matthew Continetti July 4 – July 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 40 If she’d fallen backward, she’d have been killed. It was September 2009, during her second term in Congress, and a magazine had sent a photographer to
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