Content tagged with "politics"

Content tagged with "politics"

The Byrd Rule
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August 16, 2010
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“Why Are the Bush Tax Cuts Expiring in the First Place?: Here’s why Bush’s tax cuts are set to expire – the income tax cuts and the estate tax cuts. If Republicans love their tax cuts so much, why…”

Charity and Personal Responsibility
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November 20, 2014
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“One of the defining characteristics of your political view is how you think a government should balance charity against personal responsibility. Charity is the government giving aid in the form of…”

The Conservative Case for Drug Price Controls?
Personal Blog
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January 24, 2016
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“Reading a book called Rise of the Robots about the increasing role of automation in our lives. The author takes a bit of a detour in the chapter on health care to discuss how the markets are broken….”

The Core Ideological Conflict: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up
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October 3, 2016
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“At its absolute core, the difference between conservatives and liberals seems to boil down to one thing: liberals believe that society can be fixed by grand architecture, while conservatives believe…”

The Corrupt Saga of Kwame Kilpatrick
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May 13, 2009
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“I’ve been reading the Wikipedia article about Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced mayor of Detroit. I’m honestly wondering if there has been a more blatantly corrupt and dishonest politician in recent…”

Defining It
Personal Blog
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October 1, 2014
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“When I was in my first political science class at Augie, I remember the first paragraph of the text tried to define ‘politics.’ It went something like this: Politics is what happens when people are…”

Evaluating Externalities
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November 8, 2014
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“What can get mystifying about politics is that opposing politicians can have such different opinions about political issues. It seems like they can never agree about what to do about a given situation…”

Finishing the Story
Personal Blog
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July 30, 2011
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“I find this really interesting. Bush explains 9/11 classroom reaction Former President George W. Bush says what some people took as his apparent lack of reaction to the first news of the Sept. 11,…”

The Human Connection and the Lack of Corporate Morality
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October 13, 2014
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“I own 25% of Blend Interactive, which is a significant percentage. This chunk of ownership binds me to this company, in the sense that I see the company as a sort of extension of myself in many ways….”

The Imperfections of Freedom
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January 14, 2012
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“I just finished Ron Paul’s book Liberty Defined. it’s a collection of essays on ‘50 essential issues that affect our freedom.’ There’s everything from Abortion to Zionism , with all sorts of other…”

Individual vs. Group Focus
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May 30, 2012
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“The Neal Boortz Commencement Speech: This supposed commencement speech by Neal Boortz is incendiary as hell, but I appreciated for articulating a point that I find very true: the difference between a…”

The Individual vs. The Community
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November 7, 2014
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“Your personal political philosophy is highly influence by how you view the way individuals relate to their larger community. For example: Conservatives view the individual as the prime mover. The…”

Labels and Contexts
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November 13, 2014
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“When discussing labels like ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal,’ it needs to be acknowledged that there are different contexts in which they apply. People can be both conservative and liberal at the same…”

Lowering Taxes Does Not Raise Revenue
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November 26, 2011
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“I try to give all political opinions a fair shake, but there is one conservative assertion that just makes me hang my head with embarrassment. This is the assertion that cutting taxes actually…”

The Media and The Truth(s)
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July 20, 2020
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There is no one truth about anything. Everything is filtered.

On Moral Hazard
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October 19, 2019
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“As I write this, America is embroiled in the Ukrainian impeachment crisis. The claim is that Donald Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine in exchange for a political favor – he wanted them to…”

The (Original) Problems of Haiti
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January 15, 2010
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“I’m more than a little amazed that I stumbled on this article. A divided island: the forces working against Haiti: For years, I have wondered about this very question: why has the Dominican Republic…”

The Plight of the Christian Democrat
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November 4, 2012
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“I enjoyed this post and agree with it in large part. Why I am a Beautiful Christian Democrat At some point – the 1964 Republican Convention, say some – the Republican Party established itself as the…”

Political Representation Among the Lower Class
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August 28, 2011
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“Economic Inequality and Political Representation: Here’s some light reading for the weekend. I examine the differential responsiveness of U.S. senators to the preferences of wealthy, middle-class, and…”

The Politics of Getting Re-elected
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November 14, 2014
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“One would hope that politicians always act in ways which they think will directly benefit the country. But, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they do things that actually go against their better…”

Run, Donkey, Run
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February 24, 2011
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“A bunch of Democratic senators are on the the run from Wisconsin so they don’t have to vote on what appears to be a union-busting bill sponsored by the governor. According to this CNN article, this…”

The Sad State of Political Commentary
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June 24, 2009
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“The O’Reilly Procedure: Ebert writes about a pet peeve of mine – political commentators, both on the right and the left. They drive me nuts. Ebert discusses Bill O’Reilly in particular. Understand…”

The Sad Truth About Climate Change
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September 2, 2010
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“I’ve come to some peace about climate change. I wasn’t obsessing about it before, but I do think about it quite a bit. The debate rages over the source of climate change – is it something we’re…”

States' Rights and the Scope of Government
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November 28, 2014
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“There’s a constant debate in this country about the appropriate size, scope and strength of government. This debate has raged since all the country was founded and shows no signs of letting up….”

Statutory vs. Effective Tax Rate
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December 31, 2011
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“I’m learning the difference between the statutory tax rate and the effective tax rate. it’s an important distinction. The statutory tax rate is the tax imposed by law . This is expressed as some…”

The Supreme Court Should Be Blameless
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June 28, 2010
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“I get annoyed when people ‘applaud’ the Supreme Court for decisions, or vice-versa. John Thune just did it on Facebook: I applaud the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in McDonald v. Chicago. The…”

Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
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September 12, 2010
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“This is such a loaded phrase: ‘Tax cuts for the wealthy.’ Every election season, it’s thrown around like a weapon. And it’s never questioned – it’s constantly accepted as patently bad, even downright…”

The Unbundling of "Marriage”
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May 12, 2010
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“Marriage is a bundle. It is, all at once, a contract, a romance, and a spiritual institution. But I don’t think it’s going to stay this way. Marriage is actually three structures, layered on top of…”

The U.S. Economy is Complex and Slow-Moving
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September 27, 2014
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“I saw two animated statistical graphics recently that reinforced and sharpened a belief that I’ve had lurking in my head for years. Links to the graphics are below : Percentage of adults with less…”

Which political party is the "Christian party"?
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December 23, 2010
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“This is a really interesting point in a really interesting article. Over the last few decades , the Republican party has become the ‘Christian’ party in politics. Walking Away From Church During the…”

Why 51% Shouldn’t Be Enough
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March 21, 2010
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“I don’t want to get too political, but Here’s my feeling on the process Congress is going through right now to get this health care bill passed. This is a huge bill, both in raw dollars and in the way…”

Why Labels Matter
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November 14, 2014
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“We’ve talked a bit about the ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ labels, but you might be wondering why they matter. Indeed, why wouldn’t a politician just eschew labels and say ‘I’ll do what’s best for the…”

Why Taxes are Going to Go Up
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December 26, 2011
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“Americans don’t really want spending cuts: This article is brutally honest, in two places. First, this is an important point to note: Any truly meaningful debt reduction plan must include Medicare,…”

Why the Wealthy Subsidize the Tax Burden of the Middle and Lower Class
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February 10, 2016
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“I have a theory: the U.S. economy requires a significant number of Americans to be stupid with money. If we ever all got our crap together and started managing our personal budgets responsibly, the…”