Archive for January, 2009
Not So Bold Decision Making
From the Wash Post front page description of this blog feature on leadership
On Leadership | How do leaders like Ken Whisenhunt know when to bring back talent that’s been given up for dead?
It’s a good question in the abstract, but I think the answer is Warner wasn’t left for dead and Whisenhunt didn’t really have [...]
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Tags: Ken Whisenhunt, Kurt Warner
As the song says, “We are Winning“
But it’s not like anybody surrendered. If anything the forces of irrationality are bound come back crazier then ever. I mean if transferring the prisoners in Gitmo to domestic prisons is causing a chorus of accusations of putting terrorists in American’s back yards then we’ve [...]
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Tags: Conservatives, Flobots, Gitmo
Energy Policy Growing Up
I wanted to highlight and expound on some really solid points about energy policy made by Ryan Avent on Ezra Klein’s blog today
First, it’s a shame that Obama continues to rail against dependency on foreign oil. For one thing, it’s not like domestic oil is all that much cleaner. For another, oil is a globally [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Energy Policy, Foreign Oil, Oil, Oil Dependency, Ryan Avent
Watching Nancy Pelosi getting interviewed by George Stephanopoulos this morning she seems to support the notion of nationalizing the failing banks, but is uncomfortable with the calling it “nationalization”.
In general I understand why politicians are uncomfortable with terminology that sounds socialist, but in the present context it’s hard to understand the hesitation. This isn’t [...]
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Tags: Banks, Nancy Pelosi, Nationalization, TARP
David Roberts put this video up at Gristmill under the title “Newt Gringrich is an idiot”.
Actually I think the intellectual agility involved in plan is fairly clever. In the video Newt Gringrich says he would favor tax credits for ‘carbon avoidance’, as opposed to a carbon tax. He credits this distinction [...]
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Tags: Carbon Taxes, Climate Change, Energy, Energy Policy, Newt Gingrich
Sphere of Dirty Hippies
Here’s nifty visual interpretation of what the media considers acceptable areas of debate and what’s beyond the pale from Jay Rosen.
It’s easily the most useful diagram I’ve found for understanding the practice of journalism in the United States, and the hidden politics of that practice. You can draw it by hand right now. Take [...]
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Tags: Censorship, Jay Rosen, Media, Media Debate
Seriously?
How much would straight men’s homophobia have to die down to get to the point where hot guys would make out at parties and bars in an effort to attract chicks? Not before I am a dirty old woman, right? I mean, I have known guys to do this, but more because they [...]
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Tags: Alfred Kinsey, Guys Kissing, Kinsey Scale, PDA
This is post over at Gristmill makes some really good points about ethanol. However, I think this line is indicative of a common but misleading school of thought. (emphasis added)
A professor from Iowa State University — ground zero of ethanol fervor — has broken ranks and issued a scathing, cogent critique [PDF] of of [...]
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Tags: Corn Ethanol, Ethanol, Gristmill, Iowa
Panetta to CIA
I’d like to commend Diane Feinstein on beginning the circular liberal firing squad routine in regard to the Leon Panetta as the CIA director pick.
“I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA director,” Feinstein said. “My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is [...]
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Tags: CIA Director, Diane Feinstein, Leon Panetta
They Haters
Here’s an example of political commentary that makes me wonder if I’m cut out for this. Mike Kinsley on Caroline Kennedy getting nominated to be a Senator:
But it would be preposterous to claim that Caroline Kennedy could never get to be a senator except by appointment. In fact, it is precisely the fear that she [...]
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Tags: Caroline Kennedy, Fox News, Michael Kinsley, New York Senate
I thought this was a particularly solid post from Ezra Klein on health care reform a few weeks ago.
These are not, in other words, the innocent days of the early 90s. Your insurer is not your friend and your doctor is rarely your choice. In 1993, government really was selling a more restrictive, technocratic [...]
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Tags: Health Care, Mandates
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