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• Cato dialog on Tom Palmers new book

  
  Marginal Revolution — Authority: 748
  Here is a YouTube of Tom Palmer presenting his new book , with yours truly commenting, at the Cato Institute.  David Boaz summarizes part of my comment .  Here is my previous post on Toms new book and the book, Realizing Liberty , is available for purchase on-line ,  Tom points us to this podcast of him ...
  12 hours ago

• War and Afghanistan: What have we learned since the days of Alexander?

  
  University of Michigan Press Blog — Authority: 116
         Click here to request exam copies As the debate about the appropriate United States military strategy in Afghanistan continues with Obamas latest announcement of a troop surge, the study of international conflict becomes increasingly relevant in a region that even Alexander the ...
  15 hours ago

• Federalism–The Series–Part 5–Conclusion

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 136
  Inkwell Institute Professor’s Classroom Subject:  American History/Political Theory/Government The reader now has all the tools they would need to make an informed case either pro or con for Federalism.  Ask yourself is there a future for Federalism?  If so, what would that future look like?  Should ...
  16 hours ago

• advice to activists: use the primaries

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 519
  Recently, a student asked me what I would recommend to social movement activists. Among movement tactics, I’ve decided that primary challenges are severely underrated by most activists and that most movements should focus more on primaries. If you go to many movement events, you have lots of talk about grassroots ...
  21 hours ago

• Beavis and Butthead Do Climate Change

  
  CapitalClimate — Authority: 462
  The Climate Crock enlists the Dumb Duo to help explain the phony flap over the Hack Attack. "He said, ain us":
  22 hours ago

• Paying for all this war stuff

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 585
  Bruce Bartlett floats this notion in Forbes: History shows that wars financed heavily by higher taxes, such as the Korean War and the first Gulf War, end quickly, while those financed largely by deficits, such as the Vietnam War and current Middle East conflicts, tend to drag on indefinitely. However, Chris ...
  1 day ago

• Will Medicare cost reductions stick?

  
  Marginal Revolution — Authority: 748
  The graph above, which portrays Medicare as a percentage of gdp, is from  this SSA piece .  In contrast, Matt Yglesias , Kevin Drum , and others have touted a new short essay as evidence for the claim that the Obama health reform plan will succeed on the cost control front, or at least offer a reasonable ...
  2 days ago

• SciAm - Political Science: The Psychological Differences in the U.S.s Red-Blue Divide

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 439
  The fact that this approach has been replicated across cultures makes it more reliable, but it still feels like a generalization to me, and not a hard reality. Political Science: The Psychological Differences in the U.S.s Red-Blue Divide Psychological research reveals how and why liberals and ...
  3 days ago

• Spanking the Donkey

  
  The Monkey Cage — Authority: 595
  In other words, if Obama is in trouble in 2012, Democrats won’t have spanking to blame. That is the conclusion of my initial comments on Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler’s book , Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics . More is over at the TPM Book Club , including the perspectives ...
  3 days ago

• Basin Residents React to President Obamas Announcement

  
  Texas Tech Today — Authority: 443
  Midland—President Barack Obama announced this evening at West Point Academy that he’ll be sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Big 2 News hit the streets in the Permian Basin to find out peoples’ reactions. “I think it’s wrong and they shouldn’t. They barely sent some back home,” said ...
  4 days ago

• Sentences to ponder

  
  Marginal Revolution — Authority: 748
  Felix Salmon writes : Remember too that when you have a progressive tax system, especially when there are surcharges on people making seven-figure incomes, you also have a system where for any given level of national income, the greater the inequality, the greater the government’s tax revenues. And indeed federal ...
  4 days ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  4 days ago

• Colbert Challenges Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, Considers CRU Crack

  
  CapitalClimate — Authority: 462
  Stephen Colbert interviews Prof. Dan Esty of Yale on the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Conference, and discusses the email hack at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia: The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Something Is Melting in Denmark - Dan Esty ...
  4 days ago

• did obama cross the johnson line?

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 519
  On Tuesday night, President Obama announced that he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan to continue the fight against al-Qaeda. This is not surprising to anyone who has followed Obama. Even though he opposed the Iraq war, he’s always  supported the war in Afghanistan. The question I have is whether Obama ...
  5 days ago

• Margrethe Vestager: The Exam

  
  Jacob Christensen — Authority: 129
  In case anybody wondered, all parties survived Tuesday’s “Exam” quite well. I doubt if many votes were moved but it was a fun and well-attended arrangement. When people have the chance to meet a political leader, they will take it. So, were there any surprises? Well, not really. As we concluded, Vestager is an ...
  5 days ago

• Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 420
  Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack 288 pages | 6 x 9 | none Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4214-0 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series Drawing on domestic and international law, as well as on judgments given by courts ...
  5 days ago

• Scenes from the class struggle in Springfield

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 585
  It should surprise no one — no one in Illinois, anyway — that Cook County Board president Todd Stroger resisted the idea of reducing the county’s sales tax: governments seldom give up revenue if they can help it. The board voted to reduce the tax; Stroger cast his veto; the board overrode it. The tax ...
  5 days ago

• The future of Africa?

  
  Marginal Revolution — Authority: 748
  Im still thinking about this fascinating article from the NYT magazine last week , titled "Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?".  Here are two excerpts: ...one of the earth’s last large reserves of underused land is the billion-acre Guinea Savannah zone, a crescent-shaped swath that runs east across ...
  5 days ago

• White House rhetoric key to shaping public’s foreign policy opinions

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 2 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of Missouri suggests that White House rhetoric in vital in shaping foreign policy opinions.The study also found that the simple terms easily win the confidence of the public unlike complicated jargon that is viewed with scepticism.The study titled ...
  5 days ago

• Check the Manual: Obama on New Afghanistan Surge Plans & Stability Operations

  
  University of Michigan Press Blog — Authority: 116
  President Barack Obama will face the central challenge of explaining why he is escalating an eight-year-old war in Afghanistan that is increasingly unpopular by committing 30,000 more U.S. troops, while he also outlines plans for ending it, in a detailed address. Read more at the Washington Post... See what the ...
  5 days ago

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