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Monthly Archives: November 2010
“A Responsible Path to Recovery and Prosperity”
Our Fiscal Security – Fiscal Blueprint A Budget Blueprint for Economic Recovery and Fiscal Responsibility Putting our nation on a path of broad prosperity will require generating new jobs, investing in key areas, modernizing and restoring our revenue base, and…
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SP’s AK: tough job, someone doing it
We Watch “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” So You Don’t Have To | FrumForum The ratings for Sarah Palin’s Alaska have recently been taking a nosedive. Since we at FrumForum reportedly obsess over everything and anything Palin, we feel the need to…
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Wikileaks Day 1 of 9: Hey, maybe the Obami did some things pretty well Iran-wise
WikiLeaks Archive — Iran Stirs Distress in Mideast – NYTimes.com In day-by-day detail, the cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to a number of news organizations, tell the disparate diplomatic back stories of two administrations pressed from all sides…
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WikiFlood – the end of US foreign policy as we know it (possibly a bad thing)
The US Diplomatic Leaks: A Superpower’s View of the World – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International Surprises from the annals of US diplomacy will dominate the headlines in the coming days when the New York Times, London’s Guardian, Paris’…
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Hanging out in the sacrifice zone
I’ve been visiting FrumForum lately – partly because bob mentioned that he first visited this site after following my commenting name-link from there to here, partly because our occasional visitor and old friend strangelet (as “quell”) can be found there…
Nietzsche might have understood the Teapocalypse
The Four Horsemen of the Teapocalypse – By Brad DeLong | Foreign Policy Nothing has changed in the past few years to make Hayek’s, Schumpeter’s, and Mellon’s arguments stronger intellectually against the critiques of Keynes and Friedman than they were…
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Sen McCain has just the formula to win over China and North Korea
McCain wants ‘regime change’ in North Korea – POLITICO Live – POLITICO.com “It’s time we talked about regime change in North Korea – and I do not mean military action – but I do believe that this is a very…
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Portland narrowly non-escapes non-detonation of non-bomb by non-entity
Sadly, No! » Headlines. How Do They Work? OFFICIALS FOIL BOMB PLOT AT CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY- Somali Man Arrested That headline tops a picture of smiling white Christians around a Christmas tree, followed immediately below by a picture of…
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The 100 Best Movie Spaceships
100 Best Movie Spaceships – UGO.com #29 United Planets Cruiser C-57D – Forbidden Planet It’s a beauty like this that inspired generations to wear tin foil on their heads.
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