Ezra Klein

Heh. Indeed.

Chait to Goldberg: Jonah then uses his misunderstanding of welfare to perform a victory dance in my ideological end zone. “It’s not that liberals have maturely adapted to new data, it’s that they’ve been proven wrong so often — either empirically or at the polls — that they’ve had to change,” he writes. Ah. So […]

One of the really funny tricks on Social Security privatization is how sweetly it destroys Medicare. Medicare, of course, is on red-alert territory financially. Come 2006, premiums will have jumped 34% in two years, a hell of an increase. And the future doesn’t look a whole lot better. I’m sorry, I should rephrase: the future […]

She’s not just funny, but a whiz with the html, too. That’s one work-intensive April Fools joke she’s got…

You know what? I’m wrong, or at least three days too late. My post below on Sudan is pretty frustrated, but it stopped being accurate about three days ago. On March 29th, the UN Security Council, acting under Chapter VII (which allows them to use force), passed a pretty powerful resolution implementing much of what […]

Praise thus lavished (see the post below), I need to protect my independent, contrarian credentials. So Brad’s right that Democracy Arsenal’s posts on Sudan seem a smidge unrelated to the issue. While I’m glad we’ve agreed upon a framework for trying the country’s genocidally-inclined, the Janjaweed, the state-sponsored militia doing the genocidal thing, hasn’t whipped […]

So I know what you’re thinking. All the bloggers are recommending these Democracy Arsenal folks, but you’re just one wo/man — they’re five highly educated foreign policy professionals! How can you head over to their site blind? Where would you even begin? Calm down — wonks are our friends, they should never scare you. But […]

Link! So a buncha pointy-headed sciencey types are all upset because we’re “using up resources” and “destroying the world.” Well, boo hoo hoo! Do you hear that sound, sciencey-types? It is the world’s largest violin playing just for the exhaustion of our natural resources. The violin is made entirely of mulched rainforest and played by […]

Jesse Lee thinks the sole force able to take out DeLay is Rove, and he can only do that by converting the GOP caucus. True, but I don’t think he’s got the power. The house leadership is surprisingly disconnected from the White House — there’s been no patron relationship there. Unlike Frist, Hastert and DeLay […]

Kevin Drum knocks George Will’s support for a national sales tax out of the park: A national sales tax is an idee fixe among a certain type of conservative lunatic, sort of like the gold standard and the Trilateral Commission. George Will might be dumb enough to fall for it, but the rest of us […]