Adam Ozimek thinks I’m crazy. With respect to the presidential election in 2012, I wrote on Twitter that I’m “Pretty much indifferent between Palin / Bachmann / Obama / Romney / Huckabee / Gingrich / Trump. I won’t lose any sleep no matter what.” I should be clear that I’m not indifferent to the outcome [...]
Tags: Bachmann, Cowen, Davies, Gingrich, Huckabee, Obama, Ozimek, Palin, politics, Romney, Rummel, serene detachment, Trump
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The New York Times has a piece on Obama’s latest stimulus proposals. [Obama] chided Senate Republicans for engaging in “pure partisan politics” by holding up a jobs bill that would offer tax breaks to small businesses and ease credit with a $30 billion initiative to channel loans through community banks. Community banks!? That‘s the stimulus [...]
Tags: immigration, Obama, payroll taxes, stimulus
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There is lots going around about Justice Alito’s Joe Wilson moment at the State of the Union address. In reference to the recent Citizens United case, Barack Obama said: With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for [...]
Tags: A. Kennedy, Alito, free speech, Greenhouse, Obama, State of the Union, Supreme Court, xenophobia
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