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Daily Archives: November 25th, 2008

A third way

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

For the life of me I really can’t understand how people like David Sirota can deal with complete idiots like Grover Norquist: The man is a one trick idiot. I would like to suggest, however, that there is a third alternative to Obama either sticking with his original tax plan or keeping the Bush tax […]

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Block that meme

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Winston Churchill Right now the left wing of the blogosphere is trying to put the pants on a bit of truth about union workers at GM, so I thought I’d do my share. This particular lie started […]

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I’ll go out on a limb

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

For some reason, this Washington Monthly post only came to my attention today. Steve Benen speculates about William Kristol’s tenure at the New York Times. Embedded in his post are some thoughts of George Packer from the New Yorker, the gist being that Kristol should lose his job not because he’s dumber than shit, not […]

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