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Silly Statements on Social Security (In)Solvency

…would think the Social Security system is horribly unfunded. The good news is that the very smart conservative Andrew Samwick and and the very smart liberal Max Sawicky are having…

Sulli v. Daily Howler on the Flat Tax

…Forbes a liberal? Let’s see what Forbes wrote: The first element is dramatic pro-growth tax cuts. I’m not talking “revenue neutral” fiddling with the tax code, the usual game in…

Take Two

Let me rephrase and shorten that long post about liberal morality that I wrote over the weekend. First read this essay by Robert Reich. Then let me condense my own…

Dianne Feinstein for Senate Minority Leader

…is clear that Senate Democrats simply cannot afford to have a leader who hails from a hardcore red state… Democrats can’t choose a leader so liberal that they simply feed…

Don’t Despair

…already made a good start in that direction; who would have thought a couple of years ago that a “liberal senator from Massachusetts” could win 46% of the vote in…

A Topic for Empirical Research

…Lined up, they make quite an impression — suddenly, a neighborhood appears liberal, conservative or “politically diverse.” For some homebuyers, that is reason to give houses on the block a…

Vaccines, Vitamins, Vegetables, and Price-Fixing

…a year. Supermarkets are also groaning under the heavy burden of OSHA, FDA, local health and weight-and-measure regulations, and other crazy liberal schemes. So with the added burden of losses…

Live Bloggin’

…apparently isn’t in fact a Godless Liberal. – A little fodder for the conspiracy theorists: Bush keeps looking down at his podium. – Scheiffer: “…who bears responsibility for this [rising…