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Snarking on Degenerate and Dysfunctional ‘Suburban’ Culture
And ‘suburban’ is code. Monday, I responded to a rich twit’s complaint about how difficult his life was at $450,000 of annual income (Note: Since then, said twit has removed the post. Fortunately, Brad...
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The New York Times’ Tom Friedman Is Wrong About Public Sector Employees
Regarding their op-ed page, The New York Times seems eager to provide misinformation via Thomas Friedman columns. It’s a fascinating business model. Besides, being lectured by Tom “Suck on This”...
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The End Run Around the Estate Tax: Welcome to American Toryism
While there’s been some discussion of the massive cut, albeit temporary, in the estate tax (arguably the tax cut least likely to produce jobs), the new gift tax rules are even more obscene: Families...
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When So-Called Progressives Don’t Understand What Aristocracy Is: The Estate...
Democrats need a better class of pundits, ones who aren’t so enamored of their own cleverness, while at the same time, utterly ignorant of political history. It would help, for instance, when trying to...
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The Rotten Revolving Door
Marshall Auerback comments on the new ‘creative’ economy (boldface mine): Finally, there is the odious problem of political corruption, which manifests itself in many forms, but most recently through...
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How to Deficit Spend Stupidly
I’ve often discussed on this blog how the advantage of having a fiat currency is that one can deficit spend when you need to (think of it as being on the gold standard, except that you can mine as much...
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Democracy Doesn’t Happen One Day Every Two Years: Thoughts on Wisconsin
By now, you might have heard about how the Wisconsin Senate Democrats have fled the state in order to prevent a bill from passing, supported by Republican Governor Scott Walker, that would cripple...
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An Obsolete Job Versus an Outsourced One
By way of Charles Pierce, we find this doozy of a quote from Joe Klein (boldface mine): The current controversy over whether Romney was or was not running Bain capital during the years 1999-2002 is a...
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Olympian Class Warfare
The Norwegian people decided that these demands by the International Olympic Committee were not worth the ‘privilege’ of hosting the Winter Olypmics (boldface mine): They demand to meet the king prior...
View Article“First Daughter”
This is not a thing (boldface mine): Woodward recounts an expletive-laden altercation between Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter and senior adviser, and Stephen K. Bannon, then the chief...
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