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-- George Packer’s New Yorker comment on the debt ceiling is pitch perfect.

-- Paul Campos on Grover Norquist and the metaphysics of taxes.





-- Marxist Socialist jokes.





-- Shocker from Gallup: “Basic lack of money remains Americans' foremost financial concern”





-- Why Newt Gingrich’s latest is the “most inaccurate, least intellectual book about our nation’s past” that Michael Kazin has ever read