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Is Gingrich or Romney the true heir of Reagan? Depends on which aspect of Reagan’s legacy you regard as central.
Archive for the ‘Lying in politics’ Category
January 27th, 2012
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, Watching Conservatives
Posted: Friday, January 27th, 2012 at
5:44 pm
Tags: Contra cocaine dealing, Gingrich, Iran-Contra, post-modernism, Reagan, Romney, Sarah Palin
11 Comments »
January 27th, 2012
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
After Elliot Abrams lands on Newt Gingrich, The American Spectator discovers that Abrams is a congenital liar.
Posted: Friday, January 27th, 2012 at
10:06 am
12 Comments »
January 12th, 2012
by Kelly Kleiman
Category: charity, Income distribution, Lying in politics, Microeconomics and policy analysis, NonProfits, Republican Party, Taxation, The Dysfunctional Senate, Watching Conservatives
Love this account of a pissing match between Warren Buffett and Mitch McConnell. The Senator from Kentucky has been urging the Sage of Omaha to make voluntary contributions to the Treasury if he felt he was undertaxed. Buffett has now responded that he’ll match any such contributions made by Republican Senators. This dialogue makes in [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at
11:25 am
Tags: charity, Mitch McConnell, philanthropy, taxation, Warren Buffett
33 Comments »
January 7th, 2012
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, Mitt Romney
We’ve already had one post-modern Presidency, under Bush the Lesser. Do we want another under Romney?
Posted: Saturday, January 7th, 2012 at
8:38 pm
Tags: 100000 jobs, job creation, job cremator, post-modern politics, Romney
23 Comments »
December 27th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
Daniel Okrent reports that there’s no evidence at all to support the persistent rumor. Chalk it up to the unprincipled persistence of the right wing in trashing its opponents by every means, fair or foul.
Posted: Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 at
11:30 am
13 Comments »
December 18th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
And Mitt Romney doesn’t have one. The real question is how he gets away with it. The answer seems to be that his campaign knows how to use access to incentivize good coverage.
Posted: Sunday, December 18th, 2011 at
8:06 am
26 Comments »
December 5th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, Mitt Romney
Lower than Nixon?
Posted: Monday, December 5th, 2011 at
12:24 pm
11 Comments »
October 30th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Drug Policy, Lying in politics
Alejandro Hope shreds the latest drug numbers invented by the UN.
Posted: Sunday, October 30th, 2011 at
2:30 am
Tags: Alejandro Hope, crime, drugs, statistics, UN
5 Comments »
September 12th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
“PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe.”
Only there was no alteration, and no gaffe.
And no retraction from any of the Red bloggers who spread the misinformation, even after it was corrected.
Posted: Monday, September 12th, 2011 at
5:24 pm
Tags: cover-up, founder, gaffe, Lincoln, NPR, Republican Party
29 Comments »
August 29th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
No, Bachmann did not ask a white crowd, “Who likes white people?” And Dan Quayle never said he wished he’d studied Latin so he could understand the people in Latin America.
Posted: Monday, August 29th, 2011 at
11:35 pm
21 Comments »
