Month: December 2009

Holding Out for Shangri-La

Sometimes you can win politically in the long-run by losing elections in the short-run. Right? Isn’t that the theory that Chris Bowers is operating under? Whatever your problems with Barack Obama, would you really prefer a...

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Larry Summers Should Be Fired

Larry Summers, the Director of the National Economic Council is one of President Obama’s chief economic advisers. So why, in a recession when more people are unemployed than at any time since the Depression era, is he...

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Early Returns on an Afghan Policy

Elements of Obama’s Afghanistan plan are now leaking out at a steady rate. I’m not going to slam the plan until I hear it from the president’s mouth, and he might be more convincing than the early reports. I do...

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