by AbsoluteJered
29. July 2010 06:19
So what’s the lesson here? Politicians should ignore the experts and do what makes people happy, even if it’s unlikely to have much long-term benefit? Politicians should never expect the public to appreciate their efforts unless there’s some kind of individual payoff? Politicians should stay out of the economy, because no one is ever satisfied anyway?
Pick any one of those. Just don’t run for president or prime minister if you want to be popular.
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by AbsoluteJered
27. July 2010 09:57
If there is an aspect of the human condition that is unaddressed by the platform of the Republican Party of Iowa , adopted last month at the state convention in Des Moines, you'd have to look awfully hard to find it.
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by AbsoluteJered
22. July 2010 09:42
What happens next?
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by AbsoluteJered
21. July 2010 09:42
Obama signs the Wall Street reform bill.
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by AbsoluteJered
13. July 2010 07:01
Good Morning! News time:
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by AbsoluteJered
13. July 2010 06:59
From Good:
I don't mean to be a downer or a fear monger, but this chart is simply scary, especially compared to what the already scary job chart showed last month. The dotted line (which doesn't count the Census workers) has stalled dramatically from the upward trajectory it was on.
As m...
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by AbsoluteJered
9. July 2010 06:59
With a brand-new album and a brand-new baby, the Coup's leader discourses on the dichotomy of bullets and love.
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by AbsoluteJered
8. July 2010 07:02
Boots Riley (born Raymond Lawrence Riley in 1971) is an American musician, vocalist, writer, and public speaker most known for being the front man and producer of The Coup as well as the front man for Street Sweeper Social Club.
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by AbsoluteJered
4. July 2010 07:02
Reading David McCullough’s 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents?
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by AbsoluteJered
2. July 2010 06:59
“Everyone wants to think they’re smarter than the poor souls in developing countries, and smarter than their predecessors,” says Carmen M. Reinhart, an economist at the University of Maryland. “They’re wrong. And we can prove it.”
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by AbsoluteJered
27. June 2010 06:59
We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. It will probably look more like the Long Depression than the much more severe Great Depression. But the cost — to the world economy and, above all, to the millions of lives blighted by the absence of jobs — will nonetheless be immense.
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by AbsoluteJered
4. June 2010 03:25
Today Google is releasing new tools for politicians using YouTube and Google. The YouTube You Choose 2010 Campaign Toolkit and the Google Campaign Toolkit are both designed to help political candidates better deliver their messages to their audiences.
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by AbsoluteJered
16. May 2010 18:26
Liquor, that is. But the 'drugstores' of Prohibition are echoed by today's medical marijuana dispensaries.
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by AbsoluteJered
6. May 2010 18:00
The political parties don't agree on much but what they do all agree on is that the more people who exercise their right to vote, the better. Psychology can help. A new study shows that phone calls to encourage people to vote can be made more effective by a simple strategy - that is, by asking the would-be voter to spell out what time they plan to vote, where they will be coming from prior to voting and what they will have been doing beforehand.
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by AbsoluteJered
6. May 2010 07:00
A new state law has galvanised Latinos nationwide, and others too
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by AbsoluteJered
23. April 2010 07:00
A program designed to reduce energy consumption persuaded some Republicans to consume more.
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by AbsoluteJered
22. April 2010 09:33
Fashion should be taken seriously, argues Jason Potts
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by AbsoluteJered
19. April 2010 07:01
A shortage of real-time data hinders evaluations of the impact of the global crisis on developing countries. This column uses a “microsimulation” approach to assess the poverty and distributional effects in Bangladesh, Mexico, and the Philippines. It finds that poverty will increase by well over a million, and that the crisis has been hardest for middle-income households.
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by AbsoluteJered
16. April 2010 18:25
This week, on his mesmerizing FOX News show, Glenn Beck discussed the idea of doing away with the Department of Education.
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by AbsoluteJered
15. April 2010 08:16
The last-ditch efforts of the dispossessed.
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by AbsoluteJered
15. April 2010 07:59
Wondering what’s behind those recent jobless recovery numbers?
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by AbsoluteJered
15. April 2010 05:10
Three years ago, the Republican establishment piled scorn on the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul.
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by AbsoluteJered
14. April 2010 07:59
The federal government has spent more than it has raised every year since 1970,except for a four-year period at the end of the Clinton Administration.
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by AbsoluteJered
14. April 2010 05:17
Bryan Caplan set off a debate which has spread to many corners of the blogosphere. I have no interest in recapping and evaluating the whole thing but I'd like to make a simple but neglected point: negative liberty and positive liberty are not separable.
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by AbsoluteJered
12. April 2010 05:10
Donate to the National Debt!
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