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In the comment thread to my post regarding the presidential endorsements of Joe Lieberman, Colin Powell and London mayor Boris Johnson, a debate ensued over whether “Red Ken” Livingstone, former mayor of London, was correct in signing a deal wth Chavez giving cheap oil to London– the result of which was that, among other things, [...]
Today, perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader will be trying to set a world record for most campaign stops in one day, 21.
That’s almost enough to make me want to vote for Ralph Nader.
In a way, it’s all very refreshing. Al Gore’s Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000, Joe Lieberman, has been one of John McCain’s biggest supporters, introducing McCain at this year’s Republican convention. Meanwhile, George W. Bush’s Secretary of State and the man who introduced Bush at the 2000 Republican convention, Colin Powell, comes out for [...]
In response to my post of a few days ago, “Why Libertarians Should Beware a Liberal Supermajority,” Chris writes:
Sure, Obama might be a socialist who ruins the health care landscape for aspiring medical doctors like myself. But, even if he’s really bad, it’ll be a different kind of bad than we’ve had the last eight [...]
UK culture secretary Andy Burnham is scared the Internet brings too much competition to television:
“The time has come for perhaps a different approach to the internet. I want to even up that see-saw, even up the regulation [imbalance] between the old and the new.”
“It is not just about copyright or intellectual property but [things like] [...]
Everyone’s been worried about Social Security for a long time and how to make it “sustainable” in the long term. We could cut spending on other programs and try to make a go of it, or we could cut benefits, or just watch the whole thing collapse. Or…
Why not make it means-tested?
Why should rich people [...]
Although I long ago said I’d prefer Barack Obama to any of the other Republican candidates in the field after Ron Paul, Obama has gotten scarier and scarier since he started facing off against McCain rather than Hillary. Next to Hillary, he seemed like a beacon of calm, a supremely intelligent and elegant man who [...]
An interesting article from The National Review about student groups at Hofstra University in the wake of Wednesday night’s debate:
One thing the polished Miss Williams did buy into, something that seems to be gaining traction in the progressive hivemind, is the promise of “green jobs.” Senator Obama talked about green jobs and the promise of [...]
Leave it to Joe the Plumber to explain, essentially, the fundamental problem with many of Obama’s economic plans.
Joe the Plumber is the perfect messenger: he’s not a Wall Street banker or a lawyer or even a doctor. His name is actually Joe, and he provides an important, if un-glamourous, service: plumbing. No one becomes [...]
Are you getting as sick of hearing from these guys as I am? The worst thing to come out of each of these debates is the realization that one of these men is going to be our next President, and that’s downright scary. When they’re not attacking each other, they’re spouting nonsense.
Anyway, here’s an economist’s [...]