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• David Brooks and impossible lifestyles

  
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  Brooks : In Europe, workers across the Continent want great lifestyles without long work hours. They want dynamic capitalism but also personal security. European welfare states go broke trying to deliver these impossibilities. This is a weird thing to say.  I’m no European, but I think what Continental folks ...
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• Only be sure always to call it please “research”

  
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  Very Serious People: De Borchgrave, director and senior adviser of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), wrote an introduction to a 2007 report (“Force Multiplier for Intelligence”) that has a striking resemblance to a BBC news report published ...
  6 days ago

• David Brooks, "How Change Happens": Obama No Longer Wants to Be Judged on Whether Things Have Gotten Better

  
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  As we near November, President Obama has conveniently forgotten his August 2011 declaration that his re-election will hinge on the state of the economy (see: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-3445_162-20095106.html ): "It frustrates people, understandably, when youve got an unemployment rate that is still too high, an ...
  6 days ago

• Man, the state, and the error of David Brooks

  
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  America 101. In an opinion piece on Thursday, David Brooks, “conservative” columnist for the New York Times, opened with sentences of such remarkable wrongness that it is imperative to call them out. Brooks’s thesis is that the selfish nature of man, in spite of “checks” placed on democratic government, ...
  6 days ago

• "Does this person, with his vast spaces for entertainment, honestly believe that the people who..."

  
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  “Does this person, with his vast spaces for entertainment, honestly believe that the people...
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• The ideological extremism of David Brooks

  
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  Moderation. The latest column from David Brooks attempts to diagnose the fiscal crisis in Europe and the growing fiscal threats in America: [M]any voters have come to regard their desires as entitlements. They become incensed when their leaders are not responsive to their needs. Like any normal set of human beings, ...
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• Rare bipartisanship

  
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  It’s good to see the parties working together for a change : An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda ...
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• Hidden stimulus

  
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  Small world. A knowledgeable friend wrote me this afternoon “I know everyone looks at Europe and britain is the only country doing well, which everyone attributes to more fluid labor laws, less socialism, more ‘like America’, and other things… But, one overlooked fact, they are the only country also doing a ...
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• a small point

  
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  I just wanted to make a quick point about this TED talk business . Since Chris Anderson responded , some have claimed that the case is closed and that the talk simply wasn’t published because it wasn’t of high enough quality. Take, for example, libertarian grumbler Julian Sanchez: First, it’s ...
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• David Brooks, "The ESPN Man": What David Doesnt Tell Us

  
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  Today, in a New York Times op-ed entitled "The ESPN Man" ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/opinion/brooks-the-espn-man.html ), David Brooks ponders the question why Obama might still win in 2012 despite his unpopularity on the issues. Brooks begins by examining the substantive hurdles facing Obama: • the ...
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• Is the Doughy Pantload Just A Wanna-Be David Brooks?

  
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  Would it be irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to! Alex Pareene observes the specimen in his latest “Hack List” entry at Salon : Jonah Goldberg is a syndicated columnist , author of books and National Review Online editor because his mother nearly took down Bill Clinton. He is, ...
  2 weeks ago

• That’s a lot of totebags, my friend

  
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  Can’t blame this one on the Galtians, it was the invisible hand of Snooze Hour-watching book-buyers that financed this caper : Price : $3.95 million Details : The New York Times op-ed columnist and wife Sarah are trading up — from their longtime home near Bethesda’s Burning Tree Club to a century-old ...
  2 weeks ago

• Krugthulu Wakes!

  
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  This is something of a grand blogospheric circle something-or-other, but via Delong , I learn that Krugman learned from our own DougJ of Jacob Weisberg’s dismay that the aforesaid Krugman had the gall to be both right about lots and lots of stuff—and to point this fact out rather bluntly to those who persist ...
  3 weeks ago

• David Brooks Is Always Wrong, Again–Both Sides Do It Edition/Tricky Dick Bonus Feature.

  
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  If I wrote for The New York Times it would piss me off beyond measure that I had to share type with David Brooks. I know from direct, personal conversation that actual Timesmen (or at least one of them) don’t feel that way — there’s a pervasive issue there with the self-conceit of a newsroom papacy with ...
  3 weeks ago

• David Brooks Is Always Wrong, Again–Both Sides Do It Edition/Tricky Dick Bonus Feature.

  
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  If I wrote for The New York Times it would piss me off beyond measure that I had to share type with David Brooks. I know from direct, personal conversation that actual Timesmen (or at least one of them) don’t feel that way—there’s a pervasive issue there with the self-conceit of a newsroom papacy with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Build Your Monopoly

  
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  "Instead of being slightly better than everybody else in a crowded and established field, it’s often more valuable to create a new market and totally dominate it." Continue reading → No related posts.
  3 weeks ago

• David Brooks, "Warfare or Courtship in 2012?": Hard to Make Love or War When You Cant Rub Two Nickels Together

  
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  Last night I spoke with a dear friend of more than 50 years, who has run an equipment sales and service business out of Long Island since the time he left college. His comment to me yesterday regarding the state of his lifework: "It seems like there is no longer anybody out there who can rub two nickels together." My ...
  3 weeks ago

• Don’t it make my brown eyes blue

  
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  I realize that Ryan is ballot box poison for Republicans, but mostly this just makes me mad : ABC News actually compared Ryan with Kevin Kline’s character from the 1993 movie Dave—an endearingly naïve Everyman who accidentally finds himself president and does battle with cynical forces to scrub the federal ...
  4 weeks ago

• Just took a really really long survey for PBS (about the Newshour)

  
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  My comment in the “needs improvement” text box:  The weekly Brooks/Shields analysis is my least favorite thing about The Newshour, and I always turn the news off when that comes on. Their discussion adds nothing to my understanding of current events. I’d much prefer more original coverage/news stories in that ...
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• Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble

  
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  Michelle Rhee and for-profit education scams, no one could have predicted : On January 23 the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, the government relations umbrella group for for-profit colleges in the United States, announced that former president George W. Bush would be the keynote speaker ...
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