Seeds of the fiasco were planted in the 2020 Democratic primaries. We had some strong candidates: Sanders, Warren, Klobacher, Buttiegieg. They all quickly folded after Biden won the black vote…
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Greetings from Altoona, PA. I arrived here Sunday, and I've been canvassing for Kamala Harris all this week, chronicling my adventures on YouTube. I've knocked on the doors of many…
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I’m a long-time mainstream moderate with rather unoriginal views about the Israel-Palestine conflict. For many years I didn’t even care about it – I’m Jewish, but the conflict seemed hopeless. …
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At 2 a.m. June 6, 1993 a small cargo ship ran into a sandbar not far from a beach at the mouth of New York harbor. Then the passengers started…
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I was shocked that Biden pulled it together for the State of the Union. He not only managed to remain alert and coherent for 90 minutes, he delivered a powerful…
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War in Ukraine is shocking and appalling. It is a deep, life inflecting historical moment. Certainly for me, a child of the Cold War and someone who not long ago…
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When I stand at the meat counter looking down at a pack of sirloin that is about 10% more expensive than it was two years ago, it does not occur…
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When the New York Times editorial board sat down to interview Elizabeth Warren, the first question was about Hunter Biden. These 17 distinguished journalists proceeded to fire a bunch of…
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I am a Russian engaged in a campaign of fake political advertising designed to change the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election. I operate in plain sight, yet I am…
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Interesting blog posted at Stigler Center’s ProMarket on the latest political sciences theories about the rise of populism: "The main driver is “cultural backlash” and, as far as economics plays…
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Warren has boldly pushed back on the critics who went after her for not having a plan to pay for Medicare for all. First she came out with a detailed…
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We get that Elizabeth Warren looks like a dangerous lefty who wants to destroy capitalism with massive tax hikes, huge new programs and a proliferation of meddlesome new laws and…
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OH GOD PLEASE GIVE US A RECESSION, AND FAST! This seems to be the underlying wish behind media saturation coverage of last week's somewhat bad economics news. I think it's…
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What a pathetic mess in Congress around the Ilhan Omar controversy. I can't be happy that the Dems are getting what they deserve for perpetuating sclerotic leadership -- it's too…
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See Pelosi's "immorality" gaffe here. It's mortifying to watch Trump play the Democrats with the border wall gambit. It's high stakes stuff, and Trump has significantly raised the game with…
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New crop of opium for the masses: Trump drug price control plan that pegs US drug prices to socialist European price lists. Trump's conjuring of an immigrant terrorist mob marching…
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It's been about a decade since we released Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America. All these years later, our original web site is still very active, showing hundreds of…
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Progressive Era mockery of monopoly power, with a shofar thrown in for holiday relevance. Over the past year or so, you could be tipsy over all the tipping points that…
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In our harshly divided partisan world, in which people who like to go to mountains are forever locked in conflict with those who prefer the beach, I'm a mountain person.…
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The grotesque political charade of children in cages is just another consequence of decades of hypocrisy and cowardice on the issue of immigration. As everyone knows, we have an economy…
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Obama signs Dodd-Frank in 2011. One of the world’s inevitabilities is regulatory capture: when regulators who are supposed to regulate an industry end up serving the industry's interests, rather than…
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Kroft: Hi, I'm Steve Kroft. I'm a broad shouldered, good looking, well preserved older man with deep lines on my face, magnificent hair and enough of a serious, journalistic persona…
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It would be hard to come up with a slimier, more specious argument than the one made by the Trump administration in its pharmaceutical pricing initiative, launched last week. Yes,…
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The Jerusalem embassy move is another crude, angry Trump gesture against the political correctness of the elites. It has the added plus for Trump of paying off campaign contributor Sheldon…
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Such great news that Goldman Sachs and Apple are teaming up to create a new Apple credit card! Yes, the great vampire squid that is "wrapped around the face of…
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