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Open thread August 28, 2009 (with GW)
Guns at town halls and meetings
by cactus Megan McArdle has a series of posts (this appears to be the last of them) about the folks bringing guns to protests or the president’s appearances. Her view – its idiotic, folks who do it are acting like jerks, but there’s nothing wrong with it. I have a few guns. I can’t see […]
Remarks by the Vice President
rdan Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy REMARKS BY THE VICE PRESIDENTON THE PASSING OF SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDYThe Department of EnergyWashington, DC THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, Mr. Secretary, thank you and your staff for the privilege of being with you today on what, as I prepared last night, […]
Ted Kennedy dead at age 77
rdan Boston.com carries a lot of material on Senator Kennedy’s life and politics, including comments from President Obama and Governor Schwarzenegger. The man had a huge impact on American government.
Echo comments
rdan Lots of comments did not “stick” yesterday, although there has been a problem intermittently in the last two weeks especially. Please wait for all “reply” “delete” links to appear at the bottom of your comment to confirm the servers keep it. I believe that a delay in processing is part of the problem. When […]
Nazis
rdan Mudflats has the story of her dad to tell. My own father was navy, in the Pacific, and had a different story to tell. I have nothing to add. …When he was 20 years old, he’d been taken prisoner by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge, was marched for miles, imprisoned, and […]
Debt fueled consumption
rdan Rebecca Wilder will begin writing as a Bear soon. Meanwhile, she maintains her own blog NEWSNECONOMICS. Here is an example of an Aug. 19,2009 post, which I am cross posting today, and a follow up post here. There were several questions raised, but I think it an interesting notion. I own an old Malibu […]
Five Myths about health care
rdan 5 myths about health care round the world by By T.R. Reid, Commentary, Washington Post (hat tip Mark Thoma) …I’ve traveled the world … to see how other developed democracies provide health care. Instead of dismissing these models as “socialist,” we could adapt their solutions to fix our problems. To do that, we first […]