Month: October 2006
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The proper military-civilian balance
Kevin Drum offers a typically sharp take on the proper civilian-military balance in government: Andrew Bacevich makes a point today about the military brass that’s been nagging at me for a long time: In determining the conduct of the Bush administration’s global war on terror, the civilians in the office of the secretary of Defense
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Sanford Levinson’s case against the veto
The New Republic has published an article making a case against the veto by Sanford Levinson, a professor of law and government at the University of Texas: I have no objection to a Constitution-based veto, even if it is unclear whether the president should, in such circumstances, be allowed the last word. Rather, I am
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TNR on the Other Vietnam Syndrome
The New Republic’s Spencer Ackerman has an excellent article in the current issue about the conservative tendency to blame opponents of misguided wars for US failure, which leads to the demonization of dissent that I’ve documented so often since 9/11. Here’s how his piece begins: At the beginning of August, President Bush introduced a war-weary
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Futures market: Foley hurts GOP a lot
How big a deal is the Mark Foley scandal? The price of the Tradesports contract for which party controls the House put the probability of the GOP retaining control as high as 58% on Friday. After Foley’s resignation, the price of the contract (which pays $1 if the GOP retains control) dropped dramatically, and it’s
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WSJ: Tax cuts financing war on terror
President Bush’s tax cuts reduce federal revenue, as his own economists have repeatedly acknowledged. But in the bizarro world of the Wall Street Journal, which believes otherwise, the Bush tax cuts are actually financing the war in Iraq and the war on terror: Republicans also deserve credit for financing the war, which is more than
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