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Heritage Foundation authoritarians?
Heritage Foundation senior foreign policy analyst John Hulsman, who was fired for criticizing the President’s policies, describes the idyllic atmosphere inside the think tank to TNR’s Spencer Ackerman: When [Hulsman] arrived [at Heritage] in 1999 to revitalize its European studies program, Heritage seemed an exciting and intellectually open place to work. “It was always a
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Why Lieberman is like Mickey Kaus
Until yesterday, I hadn’t posted on the Lieberman/Lamont race. I don’t have particularly strong feelings about it and I think its importance is being greatly exaggerated. But I can’t say I’m sad about the result. Like many people, Lieberman’s priorities annoyed me. He (mostly) votes against the GOP, but he seems to spend his time
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Ending the “blogs vs. journalists” debate
Via Jay Rosen, Steven Johnson has written an excellent rejoinder to the tedious debate over the effects of blogs on journalism: Long-time readers of this blog know that I have very rarely posted anything here on the “bloggers versus mainstream journalism” debate, largely because the market for good ideas on this topic has long been
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Where Lamont and Bush supporters agree
The ironies of history: Al Gore and Joe Lieberman were denounced for failing to accept the results of the 2000 election. Now Joe Lieberman has lost his party’s endorsement, and he’s going to be derided by Democrats for failing to accept the results of the primary and running as an independent. Will Ned Lamont start
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Brad DeLong spam
You know you’re a well-known blogger when spammers are using your name as a subject line — I just got a spam email (PDF) with the subject “MuseBrad DeLongs.”
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A work slowdown
The Nyhan family has added a new member, so posting will be light (and especially sleep-deprived) for a few weeks. More soon…
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Video in the White House briefing room
The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House is going to install a video wall in the briefing room to try to capitalize on the power of visual imagery (sub. required): For a decade, the daily White House news briefing has been televised. Now it is becoming television. Earlier this year, Fox News talk
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Ex-Bush official laughs at White House spin
American Prospect blogger Greg Sargent flags President Bush’s former State Department policy planning director laughing at the administration’s absurd up-is-down spin about the Mideast crisis: The White House recognizes the danger but thinks the missiles flying both ways across the Israel-Lebanon border carry with them a chance to finally break out of the stalemate of
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NYT debunks “America: From Freedom to Fascism”
David Cay Johnston, a respected New York Times reporter on tax issues, has debunked “America: From Freedom to Fascism,” a crackpot anti-tax documentary that has been treated respectfully in mainstream press reviews: Mr. Russo, the narrator, asserts that every president since Woodrow Wilson and every member of Congress has perpetrated a hoax to tax people’s
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What fighter jet would Jesus fly?
I have a great deal of respect for people of faith, but we have a problem in this country when churches are pushing military propaganda: [Rev. Gregory A. Boyd] said there were Christians on both the left and the right who had turned politics and patriotism into “idolatry.” He said he first became alarmed while