Bookmarked at Del.icio.us for 2007-03-21 Mark Kleiman: Maybe the courts would be take seriously a challenge based on "executive privilege" (which, since that phrase doesn't actually occur in the Constitution, must be one of those penumbras of emanations conservatives so despise when they're not (tags: 2070319 bushisms impeachment) Matthew Yglesias: Michael Kinsley is... playing a second-rate imitator of himself: "I’m sorry, but I just can’t see how firing eight can be heinous but firing 93 is perfectly OK. Nor can I see—if the issue is neutral justice—how firing someone fro (tags: 20070319 journamalism) John McCain: In the case of Club For Growth, I’ve got to be honest with you. Ronald Reagan taught me the 11th Commandment, and that is you don’t speak ill of other Republicans. The reason why we don’t have a majority in the Senate today was the atta (tags: 20070319 GOP mccain politics) Jacob Weisberg - Are neo-cons history?: The larger factor in Mr Cheney’s [political] demise is that his neo-conservative hypotheses have been falsified by events. Invading Iraq did not catalyse a new Middle East; isolating North Korea advanced its nucle (tags: 20070320 bushisms grand_strategy islam propaganda) Calculated Risk: Housing Starts and Completions (tags: 20070320 housing recession macroeconomics) Yale Law Report (tags: 20070320 yale law journals references) Samuel Brittan - Money is making a comeback: Any IoU that is accepted in payment for services rendered can be regarded as money. There is a legendary exam question about a traveller who paid for a meal on a remote island by cheque. The natives were so imp (tags: 20070320 monetarism monetary_policy) Gideon Rachman - Another European commitment that may vanish into thin air: global warming has been a gift [to the EU]. It is an issue that ordinary Europeans appear to care deeply about. It demands international action of the sort that the EU has pioneer (tags: 20070320 global_warming globalization climate_change climate) First use of "industrial revolution": Chaptal (1819), "De l'Industrie Francaise" (tags: 20070320 economic_growth economic_history industry industrial_revolution) Another Reason to Vote Against Mitt Romney: "'I went to a different country and saw how different life could be if we didn't have the values and the kinds of opportunities that exist in America.' It is indeed tragic that so much of the world doesn't have (tags: 20070320 Republicans politics utter_stupidity) Walter Jon Williams: I just reread Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness for the first time in maybe thirty years... (tags: 20070320 fiction books science_fiction Zelazny)
