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Yglesias Award Nominee

by Chris Bodenner

GREENSPAN: I should say [Congress:] should follow the law and let [the Bush tax cuts:] lapse.

Q: Meaning what happens?

GREENSPAN: Taxes go up. The problem is, unless we start to
come to grips with this long-term outlook, we are going to have
major problems. I think we misunderstand the momentum of this
deficit going forward.

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 - United States Congress - Tax - Congress - Law

The Meaning Of Argentina

by Patrick Appel

Greenwald's take:

It's worthwhile now and then to take stock of the vast disparity
between how we like to think of ourselves and reality.  When a country
with Argentina's history and background becomes but the latest country
to legally recognize same-sex marriage -- largely as the result of a
population which demanded it -- that disparity becomes quite clear.

Same-sex marriage - Argentina - South America - Population - United States

Creepy Ad Watch

by Chris Bodenner

Copyranter:

Hmm. Maybe showing a dancing bikini-hottie engulfed in Photoshoppy
flames is not such a prudent move to promote nightlife in such an explode-y city. Just. Sayin'.

Search - United States - Africa - South Africa - Monogamy

The Exaggerated Power Of Nudges, Ctd

by Patrick Appel

Felix Salmon's two cents:

Consider an issue with two possible lines of attack: a cheapbehavioral-economics solution, B, and a more expensive andpolitically-fraught substantive solution, S. Does implementing B makeimplementing S less likely? If B didn't exist, would S be more likelyto come about? Surely there are cases where the answer to bothquestions is yes — and where therefore behavioral economics is a badthing, not a good thing. The ability to cover up issues with...

Financial Reform Passes Reax

by Patrick Appel

I'm still trying to make sense of the bill, but I've pasted together some thoughts from around the web in the meantime. James Surowiecki:

The bill has been subject to considerable criticism because it doesn'tbreak up the country's biggest banks, with people saying that thisleaves our

We're not racist, you racists

by Dave Weigel

The backlash to the NAACP's resolution calling for the tea party movement to renounce racism ended pretty much as I expected -- with the tea partiers grabbing back the megaphone as the NAACP decided not to press the issue. (Indeed, the organization isn't making the full text of the resolution public.) Mark Williams, a former spokesman for the Tea Party Express whose string of extreme statements about the president (he calls him a Muslim) only stopped being a problem when he...

Levi vs Sarah

by Chris Bodenner

An authoritative list.

Health - United States - Directories - Psychology - Monogamy

Bombing Iran

by Patrick Appel

Joe Klein reports that it is actively being considered:

One other factor has brought the military option to a low boil: Iran's Sunni neighbors really want the U.S. to do it...It is also possible that this low-key saber-rattling is simply amessage the U.S. is trying to send the Iranians: it's time to deal.There have been rumblings from Tehran about resuming negotiations,although the regime has very little credibility right now. Theassumption — shared even by some of Iran's...

No Homo, Ctd

by Patrick Appel
A reader tips me off to a better explanation of the phrase from March:

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China's Roots In Africa

by Patrick Appel

Evan Osnos sits next to a Chinese scientist on his way to an agricultural project in Congo:

China has stepped up the growth of large-scale agricultural projects in Africa over the past five years. As Howard French described, in The Atlantic,in a...