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Framing Our Biases In The Primaries

Mar 9, 2012, 9:01 AM 1

This week’s Republican primaries certainly taught us one thing: Virginians love Ron Paul, and they’re pretty fond of Mitt Romney, too. Paul captured roughly... Read »

House GOP Calls for Turning Macroeconomic Policy Over to a Cabal of Unelected Bankers

Mar 8, 2012, 7:30 AM

Every time Romney opens his mouth he seems to drive even more of those less well-educated, populist, culturally conservative Republicans into Santorum camp.  How... Read »

Bye Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Productivity Revolution

Mar 3, 2012, 12:16 PM

Here’s the good news. The economic pie is growing again. Growth in the 4th quarter last year hit 3 percent on an annualized rate. That’s respectable – although... Read »

Will Obama Let All the Bush Tax Cuts Expire?

Mar 2, 2012, 12:59 PM

The charge that the administration forgot about the unemployed in order to pursue something it thought was far more important — deficit reduction — gets... Read »

Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinking the Middle Class

Mar 2, 2012, 8:36 AM

Last week Rick Santorum called the President “a snob” for wanting everyone to get a college education (in fact, Obama never actually called for universal college... Read »

When ‘Moderate’ Becomes An Insult

Mar 1, 2012, 9:02 AM

As he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in 1964, Sen. Barry Goldwater famously declared that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”. A... Read »

The GOP’s Big Investors

Feb 21, 2012, 3:18 PM

Have you heard of William Dore, Foster Friess, Sheldon Adelson, Harold Simmons, Peter Thiel, or Bruce Kovner? If not, let me introduce them to you. They’re running... Read »

Limits Of, And On, Political Intelligence

Feb 17, 2012, 8:59 AM 1

I am not a Washington insider, but in the course of a long career I have come to know a few people who work on Capitol Hill. I happened to talk to one of them in... Read »

The Political Truth In Obama’s Budget

Feb 14, 2012, 9:04 AM 1

It’s that time of year again – the time when the White House prints up 535 copies of the president’s plans for the national budget to be carted to the landfill... Read »

The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class

Feb 8, 2012, 8:20 AM

January’s increase in hiring is good news, but it masks a bigger and more disturbing story – the continuing downward mobility of the American middle class. Most... Read »

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