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PlameGate & Rove: the Right Reacts – Part II

…punish Joe Wilson. I think this was a theory largely burped out of one of the folds of Joe Wilson’s Jabba-the-Hut sized ego). I think Fitzgerald was bullied into this…

Asymmetric Information

…have the same economics incentives as a care salesman or a funeral director or a mutual fund manger: “If you’re an invasive cardiologist and Joe Smith, the local internist, is…

Ranks of The DisgruntledTM Update The list as of yesterday: Jon DiIulio, Rand Beers, Paul O’Neill, Joe Wilson, Richard Foster (the Medicare guy) and Richard Clarke. Now, via CalPundit, former…

Where’s the Fork? You’ve likely heard that Dean fired his campaign manager, Joe Trippi, yesterday. The more surprising news, news I hadn’t heard until today in Salon, is that he’s…

Greens Via Joe Conason: [Nader friend Robert McChesney speaking] “I don’t think Ralph should run. It would be bad for him personally; I doubt he would get half the number…

…months of waiting for him to declare — and after Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi invited him to work with Dean. Then it’s Stirling Newberry’s turn: Stirling Newberry, a 36-year-old…

Joe Conason as a guest. Conservatives really just make shit up. And they’re hypocrites. Here’s Carlson ably displaying both at the same time: CARLSON: Well, there’s mixed news, speaking of,…