 From my Twitter feed (8/9-8/15)Aug 15, 2011 at 1:52 PM |
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Reminder for Perry: In a democracy, the priority is that the military respects civilian leadership, not the converse http://j.mp/pakl5V
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 Perry running to restore military ‘respect’ for presidency – Ben Smith Rick Perry strayed from a tribute to military service to tell an audience in Waterloo, Iowa that he’s running in part to restore the respect of the military to its civilian leaders. |
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| Aug 15, 2011 at 1:45 PM | |
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Contra Rick Perry, Ronald Reagan touted low-income voters not paying federal income taxes as an achievement http://j.mp/qW41Uf
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| Bessette Pitney Text: Perry on Taxes His political opponents will probably raise a couple of questions. Does Governor Perry think that Reagan was wrong? Does he propose to raise taxes on the poor and middle class? | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM | |
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Bad fact-check alert: AP objects to Bachmann’s opinion that HCR is “unconstitutional” http://j.mp/pF7PGj (6th item)
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 Best of the Web Today: The Great Deflation (Best of the tube this weekend: Watch us on a Lou Dobbs special, “Global Market Chaos,” Sunday 8-9 p.m. ET on Fox Business. We’ll be on the political panel toward the end of the program.) You’ve… |
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| Aug 15, 2011 at 12:35 PM | |
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Classic faux psychoanalysis from R. Cohen – problem isn’t the economy; it’s Obama’s personality! http://t.co/dwAWzbt (via @dankennedy_nu)
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 Mr. Cool turns cold In her autobiography, Helen Gahagan Douglas recalled telling President Franklin D. Roosevelt about her visits to the camps of migrant workers. She was especially poignant about the children and … |
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| Aug 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM | |
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Yes. RT @mattklewis: I wonder if we will look back at yesterday as the best day of Michele Bachmann’s campaign.
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| Aug 15, 2011 at 1:52 AM | |
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MT @paulwaldman1: My piece in WaPo on how “gaffes” tell us more about what reporters think than about who candidates are: wapo.st/oUL08h
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| Aug 14, 2011 at 11:35 PM | |
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| Aug 14, 2011 at 8:24 PM | |
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MT @j_a_tucker: I’m agreeing, #clark and #thompson seemed exciting when they declared. Let’s see where Perry is in two weeks #caution
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| Aug 14, 2011 at 9:36 PM | |
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RT @kkondik: Second point: Let’s not overrate Perry like we did T-Paw. Pretty sure he’s a better candidate, but he hasn’t been vetted yet
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| Aug 14, 2011 at 9:38 PM | |
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Joe Nocera needs to think harder http://t.co/7HuPFfZ MT @kwcollins if moderates stop donating, all $ will come from non-moderates
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 Boycott Campaign Donations! – NYTimes.com Howard Schultz of Starbucks has come up with a Grand Idea to get a Grand Bargain out of Washington. He envisions a total strike on political contributions. |
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| Aug 14, 2011 at 8:19 PM | |
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More on the weak arguments of Joe Nocera RT @smotus: Boycotting campaign donations? Really? http://t.co/tMeWMTM
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| Enik Rising: Can we boycott bipartisanship instead? In the NY Times , Joe Nocera advocates boycotting donations to political campaigns as a way to get politicians to “begin acting responsibly.” Somehow, he considers this idea “hardheaded and prac… | |
| Aug 14, 2011 at 11:33 PM | |
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RT @PollsAndVotes: Iowa Straw Poll Results vs Iowa statewide poll. Bachmann/Paul Overdrive. http://t.co/eAs3sga
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 Iowa Straw Poll Results, 2011 « Polls And Votes And….. the votes are in. Michele Bachmann wins the Ames Straw Poll with 28.6% of the votes, closely followed by Ron Paul with 27.6%. Tim Pawlenty finished a distant third at 13.6%. Mitt Romney w… |
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| Aug 14, 2011 at 12:18 AM | |
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RT @PollsAndVotes: Neither affects nomination: http://t.co/m4zFKKk RT @DLeonhardt: Ames is good predictor: Does that mean Ames is imp? Or GOP IA caucus isn’t?
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 Why Ames (apparently) doesn’t matter « Polls And Votes After yesterday’s excitement over the Ames straw poll let’s take a look at the history and consequences. With Tim Pawlenty’s withdrawal today, it seems Ames does indeed matter, at least for nega… |
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| Aug 14, 2011 at 8:06 PM | |
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Most inane Dowd ever? “disturbing that Mitt & Willard morph into Millard, name of 1 of Am’s most mediocre presidents” http://j.mp/n8vpgb
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 Power to the Corporation! – NYTimes.com In the Iowa heat, Mitt breaks a sweat. It’s almost human. |
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| Aug 14, 2011 at 12:16 AM | |
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Bachmann straw poll win likely to flush out more GOP elites who oppose her candidacy. Closest comparison has to be Robertson in 1987, right?
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| Aug 14, 2011 at 12:02 AM | |
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Matt Bai’s wrongness, a continuing series — new entries from @mattyglesias http://j.mp/rrbtBf and @jbplainblog http://j.mp/pe3dz1
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 Matt Bai’s Mystical Powers Average politicalreporters observe what politicians say and write it down. Better ones ask discerning questions and write the answer down. But Matt Bai has political super-powers and just knows… |
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| A plain blog about politics: Oy, Bai Isaac Chotiner goes after the ” pathological need to appear evenhanded ” that Matt Bai shows in one of his typically awful pieces of “analysis” today. And Chotiner is correct: Bai’s claim that D… | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 2:35 AM | |
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Standing by my no-comment policy on debates: http://t.co/qveEHCP Way too much coverage relative to their importance.
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| Aug 12, 2011 at 11:23 AM | |
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RT @christiangrose: Correlation between low support for Obama and counties with high levels of “unhyphenated” whites, by Arbour &Teigen http://t.co/dOd85HQ
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| Barack Obama’s “American” Problem: Unhyphenated Americans in the 2008 Elections* – Arbour – 2011 – Social Science Quarterly – Wiley Online Library Objectives. The largest increase of any ancestry group between the 1990 and 2000 Census in the United States were “unhyphenated Americans,” those whites who claimed an “American” or no ancestry…. | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 2:55 AM | |
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RT @nickconfessore: Actual PBS statement on Bert and Ernie: “They remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.” http://on.fb.me/oHUNzr h/t @TUCapCon
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 Sesame Workshop Statement on Bert and Ernie Petitions | Facebook Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even though they are identified as mal… |
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| Aug 11, 2011 at 6:20 PM | |
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| Why We Need (Openly) Gay Muppets The makers of Sesame Street released the following message today, in response to a Facebook petition that had called for Bert and Ernie to finally come out and get married: Bert and Ernie are be… | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 11:47 AM | |
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MT @SteveKornacki Could GOP nom be hurt by party brand? http://t.co/cGAup6r // I have same q, but no damage in ’10 http://t.co/SEXSZNy
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 2012 Elections: Could the Tea Party actually be Obama’s salvation in 2012? Barack Obama’s approval rating is holding steady below 50 percent — sometimes well below 50 percent — and there’s reason to doubt that the country’s economic conditions will improve substantia… |
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| Aug 11, 2011 at 1:50 PM | |
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RT @jonathanchait: The triumph of magical thinking on the economy and the deficit http://t.co/aT2NIYo
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| The Two Crises And The Triumph Of Magical Thinking | The New Republic This morning, listening to Diane Rehm, I heard the host ask her guest what President Obama should do to fix the ailing economy. Her guest expert tried to answer, but did not point out that any p… | |
| Aug 10, 2011 at 4:47 PM | |
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Borderline? RT @jbouie: http://t.co/BNMxUDi This Tom Friedman op-ed is borderline unreadable.
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| Aug 10, 2011 at 4:10 PM | |
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RT @daveweigel: Taking submissions for the first Flat World Prize for American Fiction, in honor of Friedman. http://slate.me/qXohND
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 The First Annual Flat World Prize for American Fiction: Nominees Roll In I put out the call, and people are starting to answer. Skye Winspur sent me the first entry in my call for Tom Friedman-esque Kumbaya Fiction. I’ll reprint his entry in full. Keep sending, and I… |
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| Aug 10, 2011 at 7:19 PM | |
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RT @jbouie: Claire McCaskill comes out against extending unemployment benefits, though I doubt liberals will say anything about it: http://cl.ly/9BwZ
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 Senator McCaskill opposes further extending unemployment benefits Posted on August 9, 2011 at 5:51 PM Updated Wednesday, Aug 10 at 3:04 PM (KMOV) – President Barack Obama is for extending unemployment, but it may run out if Congress does not act soon to contin… |
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| Aug 10, 2011 at 3:01 PM | |
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RT @jbouie: Because, I mean, if Obama had told a better story, then throughout he power of magic, McCaskill wouldn’t have done this at all!
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| Aug 10, 2011 at 3:01 PM | |
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Jeb Bush’s “grand strategy” of “growth” http://j.mp/qzv6ei reminiscent of McCain’s “stop the bullshit” strategy for Iraq http://j.mp/pEFSbZ
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| Jeb Bush’s Economic Grand Strategery | The New Republic Like most people, I’ve always believed that Jeb Bush is the smart Bush brother. And yet his Wall Street Journal op-ed today shakes that assumption to its core. The entire thing has to be read in… | |
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| Aug 10, 2011 at 2:07 PM | |
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A must-read from two co-authors MT @smotus: 3rd-party presidential candidates don’t win — @student and I in the LAT: http://t.co/4vHFCcB
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 Don’t look to a third-party candidate A supporter of Republican Jon Huntsman holds an American Flag as Huntsman announces his bid for the presidency at Liberty State Park June 21 in Jersey City. The U.S. political system is set up i… |
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| Aug 10, 2011 at 12:47 PM | |
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UWM’s Thomas Holbrook: Too Early for 2012 Predictions http://j.mp/oBxXNf
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 Too Early for 2012 Predictions A full fifteen months out from the 2012 election, we are starting to see a bit of hand-wringing among Democrats and signs of optimism among Republicans, largely on the basis of President Obama’s… |
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| Aug 9, 2011 at 5:47 PM | |
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NYT: Sway of Social Networks on Behavior May Be Overestimated http://j.mp/olIczE Cites my article with @Student: http://j.mp/mROOg9 (PDF)
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 Sway of Social Networks on Behavior May Be Overestimated – NYTimes.com Researchers who published studies suggesting that conditions and behaviors like obesity, happiness, smoking and loneliness could be contagious are under serious critical fire. |
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| http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyha n/unfriending.pdf | |
| Aug 9, 2011 at 5:35 PM | |
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See also previous coverage of the debate in Slate http://j.mp/rieZgb and the Boston Globe http://j.mp/riLnEu
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 Social contagions debunked: Reports of infectious obesity and divorce were grossly overstated. Sign up for Slate’s daily newsletter. Have you heard that divorce is contagious? A lot of people have. Last summer a study claiming to show that break-ups can propagate from friend to friend to … |
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| Critics challenge contagious traits study In a handful of recent papers, outside scientists critiqued certain methods Christakis and Fowler used to reach their striking conclusions. The critics point out specific ways in which the resea… | |
| Aug 9, 2011 at 5:37 PM | |
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