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• Public Opinion on the Public Option

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 696
  Ezra Klein passes on word that the public doesn’t understand the public option.  Or, more specifically, when asked , “Could you confidently explain what exactly the public option is to someone who didn’t know?” 66% answered no; the others lied or were in error.  Matt Yglesias is bemused by this ...
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• Of Course Defense Analysts Are Biased

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 743
  Nathan Hodge of  Danger Room deserves credit for saying something uncouth: defense analysts may be biased by the money they raise from defense contractors or access they get from generals.  Recognizing that he’s in a minefield, Hodge treads lightly, insisting that he’s not “suggesting that there’s any ...
  4 days ago

• FM newswire for 4 December, hot articles for your morning reading

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 473
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with 7 sections of hot news.  Lot’s happening in the world today, mostly either overlooked or misinterpreted by the mainstream media.Links to interesting news and analysisAnother disproof to climate doomsterismA sitrep about from Europe about the swine flu ...
  5 days ago

• Cashing The Check

  
  ATTACKERMAN — Authority: 714
  Matthew Yglesias wonders : At the intersection of these two arguments is the idea of “no blank check” for Hamid Karzai. How, one naturally wonders, is the check not blank if the President of the United States has defined the mission as serving a vital American interest? If you made the case that the mission is ...
  1 week ago

• Quote of the Day, Executive Power Edition

  
  Heretical Ideas Blog — Authority: 135
  “Of all the things for an incumbent President of the United States to take political risks fighting for, obviously reducing the power of the executive branch is going to be dead last on the list.” – Matthew Yglesias
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• Some quick common sense on the leaked Climate Research Unit emails

  
  Jaltcoh — Authority: 419
  1. Matthew Yglesias. 2. Will Wilkinson.
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• Taking Palin Seriously (Gov. Palin and VP Cheney "…stand for white America")

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Yglesias opines: "I know some liberals who are excited about the prospect of a joke candidate like Sarah Palin or Dick Cheney getting the GOP nomination in 2012. Not me. The basic fact of the matter is that power tends to alternate between the two political parties. Ultimately, the nation’s interests require both ...
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• Yo, Matty Yglesias: Dick Cheney could be president, but he scares us.

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 497
  Cheney couldn’t possibly win a presidential election … unless somehow he could, in which case the country would be set for a world of pain. ThinkProgress blogger Matthew Yglesias (whose name always makes us think of Enrique Iglesias ) • Describing his surprise but total belief that Dick Cheney could run for ...
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• Is Obamas civil liberties record understandable?

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 506
  Is Obamas civil liberties record understandable? : Via Salon: Glenn Greenwald . Earlier this week, Kevin Drum said that "nine times out of ten" Obamas policies are "pretty much what [he] expected" but that "the biggest one-time-out-of-ten where hes not doing what [he] expected is in the area of detainee and civil ...
  1 week ago

• FM newswire for 28 November, hot articles for your morning reading

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 473
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom with three sections of hot news.Links to interesting news and analysisQuote of the day: Louis Napoleon is an example for usFeature article:  “Circular reasoning Afghanistan” by YglesiasPlus, an AfterwordAlso — you can now subscribe, receiving posts by email ...
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• 1989 All Over Again?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  In a New York Times story on Pakistan and Afghanistan, David Sanger writes: Inside the Pakistani Army and the intelligence service, which is known as the ISI, it is an article of faith among some officers that the United States is deceiving them, and that it will replay 1989. If that happens, some Pakistanis ...
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• The Daughter Preference

  
  Voting While Intoxicated — Authority: 134
  MattY presents some evidence that Americans prefer daughters : “Seventy-one percent of American families who use MicroSort—which is still in clinical trials—want a daughter.” MicroSort being a company that at least claims to be able to help you choose a son or daughter deliberately. This of course stands ...
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• That’s What I Call A Loophole…

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 696
  In discussing legal possibilities vs. tradition vis a vis the Senate filibuster rules, Matthew Yglesias pens an interesting legal scenario . After all, a lot of things are possible in our system. To the best of my understanding, nothing is stopping Rahm Emannuel from sauntering onto the floor of the Senate, ...
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• Daily Treatment, Giving Thanks Edition

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  Readers may have noticed that the "Daily Treatment" isnt really daily. Instead, its daily when I have time to write it, which isnt as often as I would like. And thats unfortunate. It means I dont get to chance to highlight many worthy articles--or, more important, to thank, implicitly, the writers and thinkers whose ...
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• FM newswire for 25 November, hot articles for your morning reading

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 473
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 4 sections, all with hot news.Links to interesting news and analysisToday’s graphic — prisons vs. schoolsQuote of the Day — paying for the war Plus, an Afterword(1)  Today’s links“The Alarmists Do “Science”: A Case Study“, John ...
  2 weeks ago

• Politicos Not-Very-Ethical Op-Ed

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Bill Frist and John Breaux have a column in Politico urging Congress to build on the success of the 2003 Medicare prescription drug act, and not to cut any subsidies out of Medicare Advantage, the lucrative boondoggle created by that act. As Matthew Yglesias notes , its absurd to cite as a legislative model a bill ...
  3 weeks ago

• Memo to Liberal Pundits

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 638
  Since October 2008 I have devoted much of my life to educating people about the need for further monetary stimulus.   Thus I was pleased to see that in the past few days both Krugman and Yglesias have addressed the issue, although in somewhat different ways.It shouldn’t be hard to convince...
  3 weeks ago

• "Lock In The Deficit Savings: End TARP Entirely" and related posts

  
  DesiTonic : Spice Your Life With Daily Digital Doze — Authority: 143
  The Foundry The Obama administration, under pressure to show it is serious about tackling the budget deficit, is seizing on an unusual target to showcase fiscal responsibility: the $700 billion financial rescue. Obama Administration Considering Giving in to Deficit-Mania
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• Life-saving, life-changing, affordable health care

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 157
  Original Author:  M. LeBlanc Last week, Barack Obama famously said about the fight over universal health care currently gripping both houses of congress and most of the country: "This is a health care bill, not an abortion bill." What does that mean? Abortion is health care. ...
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• Your Marxist Moron of the Day 11-11-09

  
  The Daley Gator — Authority: 599
  That whole Fort Hood thing? No biggie according to Matthew YglesiasI think a pretty good case can be made that this kind of situation actually is the main face of the terrorist threat. Not a big well-thought-out plot centrally directed from a “safe haven” in South Asia and undertaken by brilliant covert ...
  3 weeks ago

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