Showing posts with label `politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label `politics. Show all posts
06 June 2020

Podcasts Are Changing Politics Now the Way that Talk Radio Changed Politics in the 1990s

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I visited Reagan's Presidential Library about a year ago. I was so struck by the obvious: Reagan had mastered radio and TV before he ent...
07 May 2020

A Pandemic of Conspiracy Theories: Why Trump's Followers Feel Like They're Stars in the Truman Show

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Ideology lowers IQ about as much as a blow to the head. ISIS, the Nazi Party, the Medieval Church, Stalinist apparatchik, Trump supporters ....
13 January 2017

The Real Story Behind Trump's Adulation of Putin (and why golden showers is a generous explanation)

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Trump has been critical - even dismissive - of Reagan and George W. Bush, Obama and Clinton. Meanwhile, he's had nothing but good to say...
23 December 2016

California vs. West Virginia: A Question About Which Direction the Country is Heading

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Even some of my California friends had posted things like, "If you subtract California from the national vote, Trump won the popular vo...
04 October 2016

Confusing Business and Economics

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After the USSR collapsed, a lot of American business people and economists went to Russia to help. My own impression was that the American b...
26 September 2016

Now That We've Convinced You That All Politicians Are Liars, We'd Like to Offer You the Best Liar - a Really Terrific Liar

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Republicans: I'd like to borrow the country. Democrats: Again? It didn't turn out so well last time when you borrowed it. R: As if...
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07 June 2015

Will Hillary's Campaign Strategy Make the Country More Polarized?

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Today's NY Times has an article about Hillary Clinton's probable strategy, written by Jonathon Martin and Maggie Haberman. Bill Clin...
13 August 2011

Tax Rates in Perspective

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Just a dose of reality, for those of you still in the mood for such things. In a list of 34 of the most economically developed countries in...
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22 July 2011

Metaphors are Like a Bad Idea and Stuff (or, why the Government is not like a household)

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Metaphors are more like poems than mathematical equations. Love is like a heat wave is easy to rhyme, but it collapses under scrutiny. Gov...