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Do Unemployment Benefits Make You Lazy?

Alex Hart answers in the negative.
















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Malkin Award Nominee, Ctd

Mark Thompson fisks torture enthusiast Marc Thiessen's soccer-is-socialism nonsense. A reader writes:

Soccer really has very few rules compared to other sports. There are no regulations on how the players can be aligned, the clock doesn't stop once the game starts, etc.  It sounds like a conservative's paradise to me.  Football - which I assume Thiessen believes is more "American" - has an incredible array of rules and regulations.  There are rules about where the offensive players can line...

The DNC On Steele

Brain-dead and Rovian. Greenwald:

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As , demanding that Steele resign for his "affront" to the soliders.  Ironically, there was just a vote on war funding last night in...

Michael Vizzini Steele

Behold:

Meanwhile, Bill Kristol has a cow:

You are, I know, a patriot. So I ask you to consider, over this July 4 weekend, doing an act of service for the country you love: Resign as chairman of the Republican party ...

Needless to say, the war in Afghanistan was not "a war of Obama's choosing." It has been prosecuted by the United States under Presidents Bush and Obama. Republicans have consistently supported the effort. Indeed, as the DNC Communications Director (of all people) has said...

Should We Pray For Hitch?

I will, in part to piss him off. I don't believe in treating the sick as suddenly tender souls who cannot enjoy humor and debate - and that would apply in truckloads for my dear friend. I'm delighted that no one ever pulls a punch with me on the grounds of chronic disease and I'm sure Hitch would feel the same way. Goldblog meditates with pitch-perfect tone on this conundrum. Money quote:

This matter of theology brought to mind one of my favorite theologians, our mutual friend Rabbi David...

The View From Your Window

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8.55 pm

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Quote For The Day

"Keep in mind again, federal candidates, [Afghanistan:] was a war of Obama's choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in. ... It was the president who was trying to be cute by half by flipping a script demonizing Iraq, while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan. Well, if he's such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that's the one thing you don't do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? All right...

The Tea Party As Secular Fundamentalism

USA Today does some polling and reporting. Some thoughts. There is still no positive set of proposals on offer. What you get are complaints but no solutions; we know what they are against. They wanted no stimulus, no bailouts of the banks, no new access to private healthcare insurance for millions ... if any of these meant government action. My own view is that unemployment could be well over 12 percent by now - and probably worse - if this had occurred. But one can see how they have a...

WaPo FAIL

Why have they not disclosed that one of their bloggers also moonlights for the Obama administration?
















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Dissent Of The Day, Ctd

A reader writes:

Your reader stated:

Someone earning $156,800 would have a tax increase of $6,200 under this proposal.  If that person supports a family of four in the DC metro area on that salary, are they rich?  Certainly

Your inbox is probably already full with dissents to this idiotic statement.  It always amazes me just how clueless some of my wealthier fellow citizens are about how the rest of the country lives.  Even in D.C., $156,800 for a family of four would be firmly in the...