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Krugman makes a good case. And, yes, the idea that the "messaging" from someone no non-professional pays any attention to is more important than their ability to do the job.
Jon Chait points out that for a generation now GOP proposals for Doing Something About Big Government have followed a predictable not to say neurotic pattern: Republicans keep running on.
I think an ad campaign like this is just what the United Nations needs to get the US to pay its dues. Or to fulfill pledges to fund the Millennium.
It never ends.
Joshua Busby has a new book out on transnational campaigns that might be the best new contribution to the advocacy networks literature since Keck and Sikkink's original Activists Beyond Borders..
Adam Cohen notes Antonin Scalia once again asserting that the Constitution does not protect gender equality. His reasoning is superficially "originalist": Indeed, Justice Scalia likes to present his views as.
It's hard to argue against the proposition that Peretz benefits from one.
Starhawk: Had O'Donnell really 'dabbled' in Witchcraft, she might have learned that the Craft, as we call it, or Wicca as some prefer, is a remnant of the pre-Christian indigenous.
