• “People who kill indiscriminately are not "under stress". They're criminals.”
      Posted on Military Doctors November 6, 2009 3:21 PM
    • “I think you're confusing libertarians (such as, most of the time, myself) with conservatives. I think you're also confusing failure”
      Posted on The Great Divide November 6, 2009 3:19 PM
    • “Sure. I'd be for Federal preemption of state health insurance regulations sufficient to allow insurance companies to compete nationally and”
      Posted on Scarier To Whom? November 5, 2009 12:40 PM
    • “That's because you can't conceptualize a free market.”
      Posted on How the Right's Message is Self-Defeating November 4, 2009 5:05 PM
    • “All this is pretty funny since it really wasn't the banks that were bailed out. The people who were bailed”
      Posted on What Happened Tonight November 4, 2009 12:46 PM
    • “Because universal health care on a single payer model bears no resemblance to the nonsense currently being foisted upon us”
      Posted on Scarier To Whom? November 3, 2009 7:16 PM
    • “I agree that any money we have sent or will send to Iraq is basically a waste. I disagree that”
      Posted on Nation-building at Home November 3, 2009 3:51 PM
    • “The whole point of the present health care proposals is to guarantee profits for the health insurance industry by forcing”
      Posted on Scarier To Whom? November 3, 2009 3:47 PM
    • “My point was not that the problem could simply be solved by people being "more like me", or more like”
      Posted on Working ourselves to death...for no good reason. November 3, 2009 3:45 PM
    • “Very nice post. I am impressed by the persistence and entrepreneurship of the Palestinian leaders you described. I find it”
      Posted on Palestine Economy: Update November 3, 2009 2:39 PM
    • “I'm with her. The deadweight loss to the U.S. economy from any and all health reform proposals in Congress dwarfs”
      Posted on Scarier To Whom? November 3, 2009 2:25 PM
    • “But our President makes dithering an art form!”
      Posted on TALK POLICE ALERT! November 3, 2009 2:22 PM
    • “No. I don't think they should be joining the IDF either (and I don't think they should have joined the”
      Posted on Is Jeff Goldberg Of The Atlantic Loyal To The United States? November 3, 2009 2:20 PM
    • “Or, you could get a job, work as hard as you need to to keep it, not get caught up”
      Posted on Working ourselves to death...for no good reason. November 3, 2009 2:18 PM
    • “Line by line: "President Obama's decision to withdraw his demand for the cessation of illegal settlement on the West Bank,”
      Posted on NETANYAHU has almost certainly cost Obama and the Democratic Party, a second term in office. November 3, 2009 2:16 PM
    • “Shrug. The AAFP isn't at fault and neither is coca cola. Parents who aren't paying attention and children (and adults!)”
      Posted on Pimping their patients November 3, 2009 1:52 PM
    • “We weren't at war with the Germans at the time. Nor were we part of the British Empire. And the”
      Posted on Is Jeff Goldberg Of The Atlantic Loyal To The United States? November 3, 2009 1:49 PM
    • “"But I would regard these faults on the left as minimal in contrast with these same qualities exhibited by the”
      Posted on who's afraid of the big, bad elephant November 3, 2009 1:46 PM
    • “My point is not that someone has to win or lose, that's life. My point is that the status quo”
      Posted on post partisan traumatic stress disorder November 3, 2009 1:43 PM
    • “Washington has always been like that, and every generation bemoans how terrible it is RIGHT NOW. If you want to”
      Posted on post partisan traumatic stress disorder November 3, 2009 1:42 PM
    • “I didn't suggest that we do the opposite of sensationalizing a statistic. I suggested that you not sensationalize it. More”
      Posted on 1,339,771 Faces November 3, 2009 1:40 PM
    • “Why is choosing the IDF different from choosing to fight for Canada in the Second World War, exactly? I'm with”
      Posted on Is Jeff Goldberg Of The Atlantic Loyal To The United States? November 3, 2009 1:35 PM
    • “The Millenial Generation is, oddly enough, the only generation that doesn't remember the last time that government power wrecked the”
      Posted on Progressive Values Dominant-- But Need to Rebuild Trust in Effectiveness of Government Action November 3, 2009 1:31 PM
    • “Medicare doesn't discipline the free market, it deletes it. The problem is that in the United States, NO ONE is”
      Posted on Medical Technology Arms Race November 3, 2009 1:27 PM
    • “Yep. War sucks. On the other hand, I'm not sure what this post is supposed to be about, except for”
      Posted on 1,339,771 Faces October 15, 2009 4:42 PM
    • “I recognize people really dislike rich people not paying tax on all their or a company's income. But why on”
      Posted on While we're all focused on health care, tax haven reform gets shelved October 15, 2009 2:07 PM
    • “Why not? After all, up until this century we had a fully functioning democracy in which 60% or more of”
      Posted on post partisan traumatic stress disorder October 15, 2009 2:04 PM
    • “In that spirit, I'll agree with you about why Nobels are given. I mean... Kissinger got one. Al Gore got”
      Posted on Obama's Nobel Prize is richly deserved October 14, 2009 3:15 PM
    • “A mind capable of and confortable with fulfilling an ordinary and productive role in social and economic life.”
      Posted on What Is The Purpose of School? October 14, 2009 3:12 PM
    • “Why would we think that bipartisan compromise necessarily characterizes a healthy democracy? I don't think that a rise in "bipartisanship"”
      Posted on post partisan traumatic stress disorder October 14, 2009 3:11 PM

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  • Location Just a hair right of center.
  • Party Registered Democrat.
  • Politics I treat economic policy as a means to the end of long term wealth maximization (I was a liberal in 1994 and I'm apparently a conservative now). I don't have social views.

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  • Favorite Blogs CalculatedRisk, Follow the Money [Note the above picture is from XKCD.]
  • Favorite Books "The Trouble With Principle" by Stanley Fish; "Peddling Prosperity" by The Pre-New York Times Paul Krugman
  • Favorite Quotes "Not that there's anything wrong with that..."

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