The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

“Why Can’t I Get A Job In My Field?”

by Smitty Well, if it’s your field, then any agricultural job you get out there would make you self-employed, no?

Thomas Sowell On #OccupyWallStreet

by Smitty I don’t know if Thomas Sowell has the same problem Herman Cain does with black authenticity, but Sowell makes just as much or more sense as Cain does: Watch the whole thing: Via Sowell on Twitter

Althouse on the Cain Train?

“I thought David Gregory really lost his cool early on, as he was questioning Cain about 9-9-9. If you watch the video, you can see he’s agitated and grimacing in a way that really lacks the usual polished journalist quality.” — Ann Althouse, “Herman Cain Nailed Meet the Press” This is an unexpected but really […]

Michele Bachmann Slams Rick Perry: ‘He’s Not a Fiscal Conservative’

Full text of a press release sent by the Bachmann campaign last night: Perry and the Texas Strategy for the Economy Rick Perry’s biggest weakness is on the highest priority issue at stake in 2012: he’s not a fiscal conservative. Rick Perry is not fiscally conservative on spending and debt. 1. During Rick Perry’s tenure […]

Ezra Klein: Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan Shows ‘Lack of Policy Seriousness’

On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the Washington Post’s resident Juice Box Mafioso said he doesn’t think Herman Cain’s phenomenal surge will continue because of the Atlanta businessman’s “lack of policy seriousness.” Klein singled out Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan — 9% personal income tax, 9% national sales tax and 9% corporate tax — by saying “nobody knows […]

Tuning Up the World’s Smallest Violin, Ready to Play ‘My Heart Bleeds for You’

“Little attention is being paid to the way our continuing economic crisis is hitting artists, intellectuals, musicians, and writers, [Scott] Timberg argues. And he suggests that the way those livings are collapsing has put the lie to the idea that the 21st century American economy would be pleasantly post-industrial, an interchange of valuable information by […]

Starting With Bogus Principles Leads To Contradictory Beliefs

by Smitty Crooked Timber is one Lefty blog I have subscribed. “Contradictory beliefs,” by Chris Bertram, lays out four ideas which seem in tension, especially if you don’t believe in the market. Belief 1: As a keen reader of Paul Krugman, Brad DeLong (yes, really), our own John Quiggin and other left-leaning econobloggers, I believe […]

We Already Know They Don’t Teach Economics at Harvard Law School

But you might think they’d require an introductory course in logic, because Dwayne Lester shows how invalid fallacies are the only arguments made in favor of Obama’s “Buffett Rule” requiring tax increases on the rich.

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