Anchorage Daily News reports: The abuse of power investigation against Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, took a potentially ominous turn for her party today when state lawmakers voted to subpoena her husband. Republican efforts to delay the probe until after the Nov. 4 election were thwarted when GOP state Sen. Charlie Huggins, […]

A guest post to Mudflats blog is worth a look: Here’s Rep. Gara’s take on McCain’s spin and interference with the bi-partisan “Troopergate” Investigation. Politicians are good at spin. The McCain camp has brought a whole new level of it to our small state – in what looks like an effort to show they can […]

Where is this little island and what is the name of this place of an international contest of wills? I do not understand how people might nod their heads and say “hmmmmmmm’, never thought of it that way!”

Gibson and Palin on first ABC news interview. We can use the transcripts and read the results.

Moderation is no longer pending, but has a slight delay until technology increases our flexibility to respond to wild statements. Bile free.

Let us assume: That there is an equity premium ([PDF] UPDATE: Link modified to Brad De Long posting in which the PDF is embedded. Hat tip: Don Lloyd in comments.) That the equity premium can be derived from a linear relationship (y = ax(1) + bx(2) + ….) of the most significant variables. That equity […]

The newest buzzphrase in the Social Security world is ‘Intergenerational Equity’. It is indeed the theme of the new movie IOUSA (to whose webpage I link) which itself is pretty much a documentary of the Concord Coaltion’s Fiscal Wake Up Tour. (The fact that Concord was founded by Pete Peterson and rights to distribute the […]

OMB Watch has an opinion piece worth review no matter ones notions of regulation in abstract. The science is getting better at detecting and evaluating trace and small amounts of chemicals affecting hormones and development. This is not a Bush Administration only issue….whoever wins the elections needs to take a hard look at public health […]

The WSJ reports: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has told one of its subsidiaries to stop insuring bank deposits above the amount guaranteed by the federal government, dealing a fresh blow to the financial-services industry as it tries to assuage anxious customers. The subsidiary, Kansas Bankers Surety Co., is notifying about 1,500 banks in more […]

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