The auto bailout. This just seems like a bad idea. It benefits only a small contingent of people at the expense of everybody. It certainly doesn’t incentivize change for an industry that’s been doing nothing but pumping out SUVs for years. The industry would be better served through bankruptcy. Wall Street bonuses. Rumors have been [...]
Five Thirty Eight’s projection was pretty close. UPDATE: Tim Russert! You need to finish your beer now.
Web 2.0 has totally revolutionized the election night experience.
I took advantage of early voting here in Texas. An early vote is technically considered an absentee ballot, but I’m pretty sure that it gets included in election night totals. I’ll be watching the results tonight, beer in hand. UPDATE: Are you fired up?
The conventional wisdom seems to be that only the conservative ‘intellectuals’ have a beef with Palin. But I’m pretty sure the post-election view is going to seem very different. The chatter out of the McCain campaign only confirms what her two months on the public stage has made painfully clear. Palin wasn’t simply unprepared for [...]
I sometimes encounter arguments in Op-Eds and wonder whether these statements have supporting evidence, so I decided I’d ask the Internet. Here’s a snippet from the Washington Post today: If rewards for America’s entrepreneurs and firms are reduced through higher marginal tax rates, their incentives to earn, invest and create jobs will be diminished. Is [...]
From the NYTimes: “Some experts have suggested that a significant percentage of this compensation could come in year-end bonuses and that the size of the bonuses will be significantly enhanced as a result of the infusion of taxpayer funds,” Mr. Waxman wrote. “According to one analyst, ‘Had it not been for the government’s help in [...]
Democrats might not be a bunch of tree hugging commie hippie fuckups. They may actually have policy foresight, the kind that, you know, tries to do the right thing. I’m not exactly the Greenpeace type. If I knew for sure that humanity would benefit, I’d pave the planet. But what I do know is how [...]
I took advantage of early voting today. The only real decision on my part was what to do about Proposition 2. I found the best analysis at the Burnt Orange Report, but Austinist also has coverage. I did my due diligence and read through both the websites for the proposition and those against. There are [...]
At what point does endorsing Obama become a risk free way for center-right pundits to boost their centrist bona fides?