"Policies tend to have a lot more to do with preserving politicians, winning the news cycle and helping "favored political constituencies" than with establishing dependable, sustainable and objectively good rules. Government has the biggest Principal-Agent Problem of all."—Jon Henke
Monday, May 4
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- Focus on the Family praises Obama adoption outreach
- Total eclipse of the heart, literal version
- Judicial empathy explained
- Hating politics
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- Voice of experience
- For Memorial Day
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- Fisking Michael Steele
- Play him off, keyboard cat...
- The GOP needs libertarians more than libertarians ...
- What are Israelis thinking?
- Facts of the day II
- Too big to fail
- Factoid of the day: $670 billion so far
- Link blag
- Speech highlights
- Animated Bach
- Contrasting hatred
- Notre Dame commencement
- Link blag
- SNL Cheney open
- Far-right nonsense
- Bring on the political messiah snickers
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- ObamaCard
- Help has arrived
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- Macroeconomic words to live by
- What a difference 30 years does not make
- Untethered.he.is
- Friday video blag
- Horridness of the cap-and-trade racket
- They're EVERYWHERE!!
- Heir to the revolution?
- Addressing misconceptions of evolution
- Quote of the day IV
- Republican incongruity
- Eight signs Dick is running for president
- Quote of the day III
- Vintage media bashing
- The Iraq-torture connection
- Bush first rejected the awakening
- Thinking outside the bun
- Rasmussen numbers are bogus
- Link blag
- Take the Dick Cheney quiz
- Daily Show vs. ASU
- Quote of the day II
- The long game
- Good news! The war on drugs is over!
- Quote of the day
- The allure of high speed rail
- Free speech interlude, ctd.
- Curiouser and curiouser
- Burmese shenanigans
- Quote of the day
- Too big to fail
- Beinart and Goldberg are back
- Succinct distillation of GOP absurdity
- Meeting Republicans at their level
- Logical fallacy of the day
- Of have and have-nots
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- Want to be the party of ideas?
- The fearmongering will continue, ctd.
- Evaluating the stimulus
- Decline of the conservative intellectual
- Quote of the day
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- When dogs meow...
- Douthat's latest
- Non-intervention
- What's killing the newspaper business? Advertisin...
- Econ comedy
- The defense black hole
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- Another Geithner cold open
- Half Vulcan
- Dept. of inefficient government monopolies
- Deep thought
- No one is above suspicion
- Nerdprom (aka White House Correspondents' Dinner)
- Necessity
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