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Economist Brad Delong’s Question of the Day:
Barack Obama Does Something Really Stupid: Tire Tariffs
Why oh why can’t we have better Democratic presidents?
The answer to the question doesn’t even lie in economics. Dr. Brad DeLong usually wants to know why we can’t get a better press. Well, here at The Confluence, we like [...]
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Paul Krugman’s Saturday blog post takes a defensive tone with Marc Ambinder who once called Krugman and a group of other liberal thinkers “reflexively anti-Bush”. Krugman expected a better apology from Ambinder after it was confirmed by former Bush Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge that the White House did, in fact, play politics with [...]
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My thoughts appear to be a bit disjointed today so I thought I’d paste together some links I found over morning coffee and let you all hash them over.
First, from the annals of No kidding … yes, you are a young con (artist), I offer up this you tube of some newbie conservative [...]
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In 2008, I decided to go from blog lurker, to thread poster, to front-pager. It has been one strange trip that has been both oddly satisfying and exasperating. I think I popped out of the womb with an opinion and a need to express it. If my first grade teacher Miss Pearl Jensen of Herbert [...]
Filed under: Voter Ignorance, just because | Tagged: Judge David Hamilton, Michale Tomasky, Obama judicial nominees, Right Wing Memes, seperation of church and state, the establishment clause, The Guardian | 2 Comments »
I’ve been tagged in some bizarre Puma equivalent to a chain letter where I have to tell folks 6 random things about myself and then tag six other bloggers to do the same. The easy part is tagging six other bloggers … don’t hate the player folks, hate the game!
So, here’s the easy part first. (Hey, doing the [...]
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – CIA agents are offering the potency drug Viagra and other gifts to win over Afghan warlords in the US-led war against Taliban insurgents, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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Alright, why does the CIA hate Afghani women and goats so much they have to hand over viagra to warlords?
The aging chieftains often have [...]
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Open Thread for discourse.
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It’s almost the New Year. Having once dated a New Yorker for an extended period of time, I got used to William Safire (whose column I miss a lot) and his end of the year Office Pool. He always had a list of predictions that challenged you to beat the pundit. Some of my favorite [...]
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just because …
Italian Text
Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Tu pure, o, Principessa,
nella tua fredda stanza,
guardi le stelle
che tremano d’amore
e di speranza.
Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me,
il nome mio nessun saprà!
No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò
quando la luce splenderà!
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio
che ti fa mia!
(Il nome suo nessun [...]
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