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3 Conservatives That Paul Krugman Definitely Listens To

Source: Clusterstock, Dec 10 2012, 2:12pm CST

So we asked Krugman: Who does he disagree with, but not think a knave of corrupt? So I actually said that I didn't think everyone I disagree with is a fool or a knave; I don't think I specified conservatives! So, for example, I disagree with Ben B ...

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The Closing of the Conservative Mind

Source: The New York Times  |   May 25 2013, 9:53am CDT

Jonathan Chait has an interesting portrait of Josh Barro; Mike Konczal , citing this and also a longer discussion of “reformish” conservatives by Ryan Cooper , argues that there really isn’t much to see here. I agree, and have been trying to pin down wha ...

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Paul Krugman’s Flagrant ‘Austerity’ Double Standard

Source: Newsbusters  |   May 24 2013, 11:24pm CDT

In the past several years, the leftist economist during and following the debate over the recent “sequester” debate predicted utter disaster if it went through. According to Krugman, America was almost guaranteed to enter an ...

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23 hours ago

Why the RINOs Now Care About IRS Tea Party Harassment

Source: Dakota Voice  |   May 24 2013, 3:43pm CDT

Have you ever wondered why the RINOs–who despise the Tea Party and the icky conservatives who make it up–suddenly care about the fact that the IRS harassed Tea Party and other conservative groups? Mark Levin has, and he has the answer. This has been kno ...

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1 day ago

I Wonk, Therefore I Am: The Limits Of Republican-Bashing

Source: Forbes  |   May 24 2013, 2:10pm CDT

Josh Barro is getting a lot of attention lately. Formerly affiliated with Republican-heavy institutions like National Review and The Manhattan Institute, he is now mostly a scourge of the “unproductive” GOP — that wi ...

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Sympathy for the Kinsley

Source: The Monkey Cage  |   May 24 2013, 12:22pm CDT

But the thing that’s really aggravating about all this, is that if, say, the dollar crashes in 8 months and we start running 12% annualized CPI growth, it’s not as if Krugman, Yglesias, et al. are going to say, “Gosh, I apologize for trashi ...

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1 day ago

Scott Walker tries introduces himself to Iowa Republicans

Source: MSNBC  |   May 24 2013, 8:55am CDT

>>> turning to our weekly daily roundup, 1264 days to the election. someone else did the math. we'll trust them on it. you wouldn't know from comings and goings in early primary states. republican scott walker introduced ...

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Paul Krugman: Japan the Model

Source: Economist's View  |   May 24 2013, 2:50am CDT

Japan the Model, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: A generation ago, Japan was widely admired — and feared — as an economic paragon. ... Then Japan fell into a seemingly endless slump, and most of the world l ...

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Why only ‘special’ people think Paul Krugman is wrong about austerity

Source: AMERICAblog  |   May 23 2013, 9:13pm CDT

Kinsey and Lane both wrote long and rather tedious articles predicated on the belief that they had noticed an economic principle the Nobel prizewinner in economics had not considered. You won’t be surprised to hear that both are wrong. Ki ...

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Frank Rich: GOP Whitewash

Source: History News Network  |   May 23 2013, 3:33pm CDT

...In pursuit of higher office, the image-conscious [Rand] Paul took his own stab at outreach last month, giving a speech at Howard University. Facing a mostly young and African-American audience, he was d ...

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2 days ago

Hunger Games

Source: The New Republic  |   May 22 2013, 11:30pm CDT

The more we learn about the IRS vetting of conservative groups, the less it looks like an abuse of power than something much more mundane—a beleaguered agency with too few resources to handle its work-load. As The New York Times reported this past wee ...

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