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Crouching Lieberman, Smoking Gun

I don’t pretend to know Joe Lieberman’s motivation, but it’s working to perfection if his goal is to divide Party leaders (Obama, Reid, etc.) from the Democratic progressive base. I…

Tubes !

…chapter on global warming of “Superfreakonomics” by Steves Levitt and Dubner. The most quoted takedowns were written by Joe Romm and by Tim Lambert. As far as I can tell,…

What a Pack of Blue Faced Liars

…= voted no on hr2454 Arcuri, Mike (NY-24) n Baca, Joe (CA-43) not n Barrow, John (GA-12) n Berry, Marion (AR-01) n Bishop, Sanford (GA-02) y = voted yes on…

The Two Sides of AIG

…that board doesn’t include Hank Greenberg, I’ll be cautiously optimistic.” The problem is that’s probably not the way to bet. More on that later; for now, keep watching Joe Nocera…

ARMY navy air force MARINES

…more soldiers AND more expensive metal stuff. Posted by: joe from Lowell July 18, 2008 3:41 PM I agree with Joe from Lowell’s version of Obama that the problem is…

Does Biden Have a Point?

This morning Joe Biden suggested scrapping hearings on Supreme Court nominees: WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominees are so mum about the major legal issues at their Senate confirmation hearings that…

Things an Economist Cannot Say in Crawford

…to dump their dollar assets on a large scale. Let me start by noting a couple of things that Bernanke briefly mentioned that the average Joe might understand. As I…