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The Time I Offered to Bet $10,000

[William D. Cohan’s] House of Cards. The bitter story below the fold. It’s Election Day, 1992. I am (somewhat) young, single, paying about $600/month in rent, and making Real Money…

Supreme Court rulings and the Roberts Court

…years of the court led by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in 2005, and 42 percent by all courts since 1953. Those differences are statistically significant, the study…

Dueling Mooses

by reader noni mousa Dueling Mooses — Kristol tries to confuse the issue — FAIL! William Kristol (NYT today) defends Palin as a VP pick. Are we convinced? Here, see…

Global warming policy on taxes report

…McCarl, Texas A&M University Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University William Nordhaus, Yale University Sergey Paltsev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology William Pizer, Resources for the Future David Popp, Syracuse University John Reilly,…

Spain’s new defense minister

…Robert Gates Rumsfeld (Cheney) William Perry William Cohen Brown Robert McNamara Frank Carlucci James Schlesinger 2. If pregnancy is considered “medical”, is that different than say a man or woman…