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Washington Post Headline Writer part VII post moved here

Robert's List of Reasonable and Reasonably Honest Conservatives fourth Update Recall to avoid offending too many people, I restricted my...

On a bet and with 7 minutes to spare, I post a model which has a business cycle due to inter-industry wage differentials. Aside from that t...

Teach a cook how to govern (in Italian)

Sin and the Business Cycle Many people feel the need to describe suffering as the wages of sin. This includes the suffering of people witho...

QOTD One thing I have never fully understood is why conservatives, who believe that all the smart people in the world will go on strike if w...

Dear Mr McNeely Welcome to the blogosphere. If you think it is nasty, petty, and pointless, I can provide some evidence which would tend to...

I call this round of Obama vs Atrios for Obama Atrios wrote Demand ... the administration is pushing for Congress to support various tax br...

Dear Ben Demiero In the future could you please refrain from mentioning Glenn Beck and hypothetical powerful "shape-shifting lizard peo...

Sex and Drugs and Rock and Holes is the perfect title for a post on the Minerals Management Service Ahhh, the curse of a title that you like...

21st Century Communism "The Chinese government has ... even called on companies to treat workers with more dignity." In a radical ...

www.washingtonpost.com headline and abstract person strikes again Budget looms in Calif. Voters are more worried about a $20 M gap than the...

Inconclusive ! I didn't know that lie detectors could tell if a one night stand was inconclusive. In the last two days two major figures...

Robert's List of Reasonable and Reasonably Honest Conservatives Third Update Recall to avoid offending too many people, I restricted my ...

Digby Says Obama is following the teachings of Herbert Hoover. Update: Score a big one for Digby . Obama is demanding agencies identify 5%...

I seem to have been bannned over at Political Animal For days, my comments have been rejected on the grounds that I am not allowed to commen...

In the old days, they used to distort the meaning of text by removing context. Now we have gotten to distorting the meaning of context by re...

I have a great deal of respect for Duncan Black and Digby. However, today he links without criticism to a post of hers which strikes me as...

Scott Sumner meet Tyler Cowen update: Cowen did not mix up supply and demand. I apologise. Sumner identifies "expectations about monet...

NO True Scotsman would write what Mark Ambinder wrote Number two: journalists fall victim to the tyranny of false equivalences. That is, w...