…polls. For a nice way to see Kerry’s slight but beginning-to-be-noticeable lead in the polls, take a look at this assessment by Chris Bowers at MyDD. My conclusion from these…

Giblets, Fafnir, and The Medium Lobster If the title of this post is a mystery to you, then you should click here to read the Parable of Chris’s Stuff. AB…

Reagan’s small-government vision Last Wednesday, I gave Cato’s Chris Edwards an A for effort for his suggestions as to how to reduce government spending by almost $300 billion per year…

Cato Institute proposes fiscal responsibity Well – sort of. Chris Edwards has put forth “Downsizing the Federal Government” with $300 billion in proposed spending cuts by 2009. Highlights: Eliminating the…

The Politicization and Bastardization of Science I’ve been meaning to write about this issue for a while; fortunately, Chris Mooney has been doing such a good job that I don’t…

…contest. First priority goes to frequent commenters without a blog, which basically means A Different Chris, Kash, Rickenharp, and my nemesis, Tom (yes, the contest is open to slightly right…

…that, now, “the government must pay its bills in the long run”? To quote Chris Cook (HT Izabella Kaminska; emphasis mine), the national debt: …is a national equity… At least…

…ACA. The Booth School (and Chris Said and, sadly, Dylan Matthews) have fallen for a right wing myth. Importantly, the conflation of the extreme severe squeezing of hospitals nursing homes…

…individuals, the Christian right will ponce on this as further evidence of what it sees as a “war on Christianity” (sometimes cast as a war on religion itself). Anytime that…

…since 2011. Governor Chris Christie has made aggressive use of incentives a centerpiece of his economic development strategy, but the magazine’s comparison of New Jersey’s job performance with than of…