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Republican Political Violence via Matt Yglesias If you disapprove of the use of physical violence in politics you can donate to Wolf's o...

More on Anti-Depressants PJ please e-mail me at robert.waldmann@gmail.com so we can communicate in some way other than leaving comments at ...

Polls Based on his expertise as a baseball handicapper, Nate Silver is trying to explain to pollsters how to do their job. He is awesome. O...

What could possibly make things worse for the mavens of Wall Street ? stumped eh. I have one remaining risk. What if Nate Silver decides t...

When checking how much better Talking Points Memo is than others news organizations, I found that, this time, they got semi scooped. The sca...

Mole Watch This may be a new feature of my blog. Recently, Sarah Palin dropped her cover and revealed that she is, as should have been obvi...

Red Lining and Land Use Horrors I totally disagree with Atrios He writes Where the economics of land prices have run smack into stupid zonin...

Elwyn Tinklenberg is the Man of the Hour ! The Elwyn Tingklenberg movement, nay the Elwyn Tinklenberg uprising should strike terror into th...

A sentence written by David Brooks was so bizarre that I considered blogging about it. Matthew Yglesias wrote about the column. His post i...

The very smart Ezra Klein is very confused about how to measure the placebo effect and what to do if it is a large fraction of the treatment...

The Bride of the Gallup Anomaly OK now I have no explanation. The Gallup likely voter filter gives results completely unlike those of any o...

Invalid voter casts invalid vote !!! in Ohio !!! The Republicans have finally found one !!! His name is Smauel Joeseph Wurzelbacker (aka Jo...

The Milliken Sleaze Drop Experiment Former Michigan Governor William Milliken has dropped McCain because he has become to sleazy. via Steve ...

On Somalia McCain was Right and I was Wrong Wrong Wrong Running up the score, the Obama campaign claims to list 17 lies McCain told during t...

Wish I'd Said that Before long you'll be getting your auto loans directly from the Fed.

Sebastian Mallaby makes an argument the key financiers were the ones who bought the toxic mortgage products. If they hadn't been willin...

Klinging to the fragments of a shattered world view Arnold Kling has a proposal My alternative is to encourage new lending by lowering capit...

Bill Ayers ought to be hiding under a rock. Below I write about the Obamas and the Rezkos. Another possibly embarrassing acquaintance of Ob...

Good Fences Make Good neighbors -- The Obamas and the Rezkos Looks like the McCain campaign has decided that they have been to high minded. ...