…or maybe Felix Salmon‘s), giving the lie to whatever was left of the DeLong argument that being left of a cadre of Bob Rubins makes one a “liberal.” Pull quote:…

…the clamor about the Bowles-Simpson road map to conquering the deficit–depicted as a reasonable, middle-of-the-road approach. Bowles-Simpson is a neo-liberal/neo-conservative group of people with little understanding of the predicament of…

…psychologically motivated by Accumulation and not Consumption/Display. Discuss. ____________________________________________________________________ I maintain that a lot of what is baffling in Conservatism to those of us whose thinking derives from Liberal Enlightenment’s…

…the country for cuts in government spending up to 20 percent as the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition lays the groundwork for an austerity program to last the whole parliament. Their…

…right. RATHER: The Republican Party was almost totally different. You had three wings of the Republican Party Lyndon Johnson was dealing with. You had the liberal Republicans, and they would…

…and Right anchors of a political spectrum that has various democratic flavors in between: Social Democrats, Liberal Democrats, Christian Democrats and the like. But that is the result of looking…

…is inconsistent with classical liberal principles of consumer sovereignty. That is, he is not only more in favor of free markets than Smith but more of a classical liberal that…

rdan The Plum Line repoprts: Big Liberal Bloggers Tee Off On Progressive Groups For Not Sharing Ad Wealth Some of the leading liberal bloggers are privately furious with the major…

…This too is a falsehood. All these organizations are corporate-friendly and dependent on big-money contributors. No liberal or labor thinkers need apply, though the group includes some formerly liberal economists…

…like Corporate Express that Jimmy would be on his ass on the pavement in an instant. These appeals in economic guise are simply attempts to appeal to liberal guilt and…