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On Tuesday, March 22, Vanderbilt University was fortunate enough get the first crack at the first Republican to declare (or at least “explore”) his candidacy for the 2012 presidential election. Just days after launching his presidential “exploratory committee”, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty debated Christina Romer, once an economic advisor of the Obama White House, […]
March 26, 2011
The Austerity Delusion Similar to a previous post of mine about the right-wing overstating the issue of “uncertainty” in the economy, Paul Krugman explains in his latest NYT op-ed column why the “confidence fairy” will not save us. He goes into more detail and argues with more economic handiness than I can exactly why austerity at a […]
February 27, 2011
Watching Libya’s president Muammar Qaddafi go off the deep end this past week has brought to my mind two questions: 1) Is Qaddafi a drug-addict? 2) How many Middle Eastern presidents can we reasonably suspect of being addicted to narcotics of some sort? The first time I suspected Qaddafi of being either high or completely […]
The American Ideal 
April 3, 2011
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