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The fall of a demagogue
I wasn't going to blog anything about John Edwards' recent public admission to an affair with Rielle Hunter. As has been noted many times previously on this blog, Edwards is a demagogue who represents the worst in American national...
Hillary's flaw
The strangely obsolescent presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton is one of the most intriguing stories of this political season. The Financial Times' Clive Cook provides a spot on foreigner's perspective: [Clinton's] performance last night was stunningly ill-judged, and speaks...
Fueling food riots
Peter Gordon observed the other day that "politicians are better at creating problems than addressing them. Schools, housing, health care, transportation and others suffer from too much political attention." Echoing that idea, Clear Thinkers favorite James Hamilton writes about...
The importance of running a Presidential campaign
On the heels of the Frank Rich/NY Times column castigating the Hillary Clinton campaign team, one of the best business law professors in the U.S. explains why the ability to run a large political campaign is an important qualification...
Hillary's redemption?
It's rare that I post on politics two days in a row (or even two times in a week, for that matter), but the meltdown of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been one of those fascinating political developments that simply...
Bashing the capitalist roaders
Does it appear to anyone else that Hillary Clinton is getting a bit desperate in attempting to salvage her campaign for the Democratic nomination? Get a load of this: Sen. Hillary Clinton took a swipe at [investment bankers], suggesting wealthy...
Hillary Clinton's Inner Tracy Flick
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Birds of a feather?
Perhaps coincidentally, I came across the following two news reports consecutively yesterday morning. First from this BBC article: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to nationalise farms, in an effort to tackle food shortages. Government controls keep food prices low...
The power of words
James Fallows hits on what I believe is a very important dynamic in Barack Obama's surge past Hillary Clinton among Democrats -- the power of words: Words and deeds. Talk and action. Poetry and prose. Presidents obviously do best when...
Remembering 1968
In 1968, I was a 15-year old concentrating on playing various high school sports in Iowa City, a Midwestern college town. However, even in that somewhat sheltered environment, it was impossible not to realize that 1968 was an unusually tumultuous...
Does anyone take John Edwards seriously anymore?
As noted in this post from late 2004, a decent case can be made that former Democratic vice-presidential candidate was the difference in costing John Kerry the close 2004 Presidential election, particularly after his Benny Hinn imitation on the campaign...
Criminalizing the information markets
As noted earlier here, here and here, the federal govenment's crackdown on Internet gambling is a a wasteful exercise in nanny-state futility, but also damaging to important American markets. Following up on that theme, University of Texas finance professor Paul...
The Lord of Regulation's abuse of power
In this Wall Street Journal ($) op-ed, Chief Executive magazine editor William J. Holstein addresses a common theme of this blog -- namely, the dubious motives and methods behind New York AG ("Attorney General" or "Aspiring Governor," take your pick)...
Father of HSA's condemns Kerrycare
John C. Goodman is a health care finance expert who was one of the leading advocates of Health Savings Accounts (explained here), which is one of the only positive pieces of health care finance legislation that has been enacted in...
Polarized political discourse
Richard Clarke's book "Against All Enemies" that criticizes the Bush Administration's role in the war on terror is already No. 1 on the Amazon.com bestseller list. Does that spell trouble for Mr. Bush's re-election? Maybe not, says Alan Murray in...
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