Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Words of Wisdom for the 2009 Economy

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Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most respected economic commentators, has a great year end piece in today's Washington Post about...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

A Concept for the new year: NUDGE

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One of the things you will be hearing much more about in the new year is the concept of Nudge. It's an idea put forth by two former Oba...

How America lost its way - Book of the Year

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It's that time of the year when we want to pick the best and worst of everything. I've previously mentioned that Time Magazine had p...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Middle East Options

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A very smart post from Steve Clemon's   Washington Note on the latest misery in the Middle East and what the U.S. needs to do. Money q...
Monday, December 22, 2008

What it takes to be great

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This is about the time of year where we all make those "lasting" new years resolutions.  Often they are about work, career or, in ...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Nothing more needs to be said

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Andrew Sullivan on Rick Warren and the Inaugural

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Andrew Sullivan has the most cogent argument and analysis as to why we should all support Obama's choice of Rich Warren to deliver the I...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Our remembered past: Israel & The Holocaust

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As with the events of 9/11 in the U.S., a key foreign and domestic policy task of the Obama administration will be to understand the consequ...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Pragmatism over Ideology

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A reader on Daniel Larison's Conservative blog talks about Obama and Pragmatism. It's perhaps the most important outcome of the ele...
Friday, December 12, 2008

TIME picks its non-fiction book of the year

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We don't yet know the "person of the year," but TIME has picked its best non-fiction book of the year.  It's Dexter Filki...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

When Worlds Collapse

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Mark Ambinder nails the link between the weakness of the global economy and Obama's foreign policy options.  As far as economics are co...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

No Bailout of Detroit!

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I can't say it enough times that bailing out Detroit is truly putting taxpayers money down a rat hole. There are so many reasons why. ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Obama and FDR "The Defining Moment"

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As we've heard over and over, we face the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. As Obama takes office he faces conditions re...
Sunday, December 7, 2008

Another Obama perfect pick

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The general who had the most conspicuous premonition about Iraq, and who lost his job because of it, will now be overseeing the care of thos...
Saturday, December 6, 2008

Why Prop 8 really passed

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For all of those that have tried to understand how Proposition 8 could have passed, when at one point the No on 8 side was 17 points ahead, ...
Thursday, December 4, 2008

Who is Michelle Obama?

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Washington post writer Liza Munday reveals much about the future First Lady in her new book Michelle: A Biography My conversation today ...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Andrew Jackson & Jon Meacham

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Besides gracing a $20 bill, Andrew Jackson, our seventh President, gave life to the idea of populism, founded the modern Democratic Party, p...

The economy and China's future

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Much has been written lately about the Chinese economy slowing down.  What it means if millions of workers who came from the country to the ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Cyber Monday redux

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Now that you've all spent Cyber Monday shopping instead of working, just how secure is that Internet?  It turns out that, for a while, ...
Monday, December 1, 2008

The Limits of Power

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With Obama's foreign policy team in place, they would all do well to head the words of Retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich who warns of the...