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If you think we should discuss economic inequality in anywhere but quiet rooms, then go to China — I already sent your job there. Okay, cheap shot. But equating any discussion of inequality with Communism as Romney did is no more than crude red-baiting. Nevertheless, I can’t agree with those who think that the exchange means that “the pressure [...]
Archive for the ‘Conservatism’ Category
January 19th, 2012
Category: Campaign 2012, Conservatism, Income distribution, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
January 8th, 2012
Category: Conservatism, Intellectual disability, Personal moment, Religion and Politics, Watching Conservatives
A quick comment.
December 15th, 2011
Thre cable TV service run by crimunals in Rio´s favelas was much cheaper than its legal successors.
November 15th, 2011
Libertarians and conservatives have become fond of calling the individual mandate totalitarian-or at least a gross and unconscionable deprivation of individual liberty. But if so, why are they so comfortable with the prospect of courts finding it unconstitutional only when the *federal* government imposes it?
August 27th, 2011
Category: 2011 Democratic Agenda, Conservatism, Debt ceiling, Economics, Elections 2010 and 2012, Republican Party, Rhetoric and Framing, Stimulus, Taxation
Keith Humphreys’ thoughtful post called to mind some thoughts I wanted to jot down after re-reading Drew Westen’s NYT piece on Obama and Jonathan Chait’s blistering response to Westen in the New Republic. Westen is surely a primary target of Keith’s scorn, and I agree with both Chait and Keith that Westen grossly exaggerates what [...]
August 15th, 2011
(Cross-posted at the Century Foundation’s Taking Note) Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein both review Texas Governor Rick Perry’s book, Fed Up! Our fight to save America from Washington. Matt notes what he calls “The ten weirdest ideas” in that book. Many of Perry’s ideas are, indeed, weird, such as the claim that Al Gore is [...]
June 7th, 2011
Conservative references to “Europe” may sound like they’re about economics. But they’re really about religion. “Europe” means “secularism” and secularism means moral decline.
May 23rd, 2011
At an academic workshop on social conservatism most of the participants think gay rights is a losing issue, ripe for jettisoning. Sign of the times?
April 28th, 2011
Category: Conservatism, Health Care
Some guy at Cato believes I am a leftist authoritarian for supporting Medicare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board
April 15th, 2011
Yeah that’s a gas tax. In 2010, America consumed 138,496,176,000 gallons of gas. If a $1/gallon failed utterly to reduce our gasoline use, it would at least raise something like $138.496176 billion every year.
