Month: May 2011

Coming Up: Free Trade Agreements

I haven’t really studied the proposed free-trade deals with Panama and Colombia, but I can support the free-trade agreement with South Korea. After the disastrous midterm elections, I didn’t expect much of anything...

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Bring On Ron Paul!

Ron Paul is so awesome. I really hope he wins the Republican nomination. No one really gives him a chance, but the Republican Party of 2012 is a whole lot more like Ron Paul than the Republican Party of 2008. Why settle for...

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Mistah Trump, He Dead

Greg Sargent writes the epitaph for Donald Trump’s aborted presidential campaign: Even putting aside the killing of Bin Laden, a high visibility huckster/reality TV star like Trump was the perfect agent to reveal the cheap...

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Blue Dog Revolving Door

There is a lot to unpack from the following paragraphs: Almost a third of the Blue Dog Democrats who retired or were defeated in 2010 have gone to work for organizations that lobby their former colleagues in Congress, according...

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Sunday Night Blues

I think dealing with all the Stupid in our political discourse has finally had an enervating effect on me. I’m having trouble seeing why it’s worth writing about the nit-wits who are running for the Republican...

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