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What Karl Rove Really Said

Dan Bartlett went on the morning talks shows to explain that Rove’s speech included this sentence: Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; a…

…a difficult and perilous time. So conservative semi-endorsements of Kerry now include Sullivan, Bruce Bartlett, Dan Drezner, and Jacob Levy. Alleged liberals siding with Bush include Zell Miller, Chris Hitchens,…

…to other jobs; in many cases they have been replaced by subordinates with much less experience in governing. Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist with the National Center for Policy Analysis,…

Stuart Buck cites a townhall.com editorial by Bruce Bartlett arguing that consumption taxes are not regressive. Bartlett essentially parrots the logic of chapter 5 of the Economic Report of the…

Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…

Housing Update

…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label