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July 27, 2010
Gingrich To Play The Dolchstoss Card
Well, you could see this coming:
Newt Gingrich will deliver a major national security address at the
conservative American Enterprise Institute on Thursday in which he will
reprimand the Obama administration's "willful blindness" to the threat
of extremist Islam...Gingrich "will warn," according to a synopsis of the event, "that now is the time to awaken from self-deception about the nature of our enemies and rebuild a bipartisan commitment, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, to defend...
Spin Machines
Reihan takes issue with the substance and tone of Bruce Bartlett interview:
My central disagreement with Bartlett is that I don't think it's verysensible to interpret political history as a series of psychodramas.One could present the same facts in a very different matter, e.g.,noble congressional Republicans only passed the Medicare prescriptiondrug benefit because they feared demagogic attacks from the left, whichthreatened a massive political defeat that would impair their abilityto...
Baby Dreams
Jason Kottke - Recreation - Volkswagen - Thing - Makes and Models
Russia And Iran
The re-set is working. Not so long ago, we were informed by the war chorus that Russia would never agree to tighter sanctions on Iran. Wrong. Now the isolation of Tehran is intensifying, with Russia in the lead.
Iran - Russia - Tehran - Middle East - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Palin's Chances, Ctd
Nyhan compares her favorables to Clinton's:
Though Clinton started 2007 as a less polarizing figure than Palin, thepublic quickly reverted to being sharply divided about her as she beganto campaign actively for the Democratic nomination. Assuming Palin'sremaining supporters will stick by her, she may end up with a similarprofile in April 2011 as Hillary had in April 2007. In that case, asuccessful nomination campaign is plausible (and even a generalelection victory if the economy is in bad...
Neocon Hathos
Jonathan Chait - New Republic - Republican - Conservatism - Israel
Didn't We Know This Already? Ctd
Quite possibly, the real damage this leak will do is to how theintelligence community operates. Last week, when the pundits wereoutraged at the revelationsin The Washington Post's expose on the intelligence community, much ofit focused on how little agencies collaborate and share information.That is, when they find something important, they tend to keep it tothemselves, rather than share it with the other 15 agencies that mightbe working on the same...
Do You Trust The Stimulus?
Ryan Avent adds to Greg Mankiw's criticism:
It seems to me that fiscal stimulus will work well in countries where it is believed that fiscal stimulus will work well.
Whatdo I mean by this? Well, one obvious point is that a country thatunderstands stimulus should experience an immediate jolt to confidencewhen stimulus is enacted. But other factors are likely to be moreimportant. A country committed to stimulus will take care to prepare touse stimulus. It will construct a system of automatic...
July 26, 2010
The Daily Wrap
Today on the Dish we rounded up reaction to the latest Wikileaks leak. Andrew's take here. He also ripped into Journo-list for its Trig talk (a reader poured salt), wrung his hands over epistemic closure, and continued to confront anti-Semitic smears.
ABC finally released the full transcripts of her 2008 interviews. More Palin coverage here and here. The backlash against Lindsey Graham got scary. "Torture" watch here and here.
Creepy ad here. Slow lightning here, unoriginal lyrics here, ugly a...
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