Author: palaverer

Egypt, and Doing Something

The problem with what passes for public discourse on foreign policy in mainstream media and much of the blogosphere is that it is centered on the United States.  Other societies, it seems, exist in the American imagination...

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Obama, Overdrive, and the State

President Barack Obama has vowed to put the economy “into overdrive” by  2012, as he announced the head of a new economic advisory panel. So notes the BBC, and and a bunch of other people, too. “In an...

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Michelle Bachmann and Socialism

I saw this headline, and became upset: Michele Bachmann: Health Care Law “Crown Jewel of Socialism” Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a Republican and founder of the Tea  Party Caucus in the House, today cast...

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