This man is going to be known as the most divisive and possibly the stupidest governor Kansas has ever had. First he falls head-over-heels in love with Arthur Laffer’s supply-side economics and implements policies to put them in place, which results in his state losing tax revenue by billions of dollars, causing deep pain to …
Paul Krugman and others have asserted that European banks were the big beneficiaries of the early Greek bailout. They’ve gotten pushback, apparently. Steve Randy Waldman has created a timeline of events from that early 2010 bailout through the second one in 2012. I can’t swear to the accuracy of his analysis, but it seems to …
Live blog here. 4-1 in only 27 minutes? What sport is this?
I have been whining and complaining about CBS and its miserable broadcast of the Boston Pops annual 4th of July show from the Esplanade in Boston for about ten years now. It looks like the Pops and CBS separated after the 2013 Fireworks Spectacular, as unless you lived in Boston the only way to see …
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Even among the looniest of Republican Presidential aspirants, Donald Trump stands out as unique. So of course he placed second in a national CNN poll, with 12 percent of GOP primary voters saying they were most likely to support him in 2016. In fact, he outranked every other candidate in the crowded Republican field except …
My goodness. Senator Sanders has been getting larger crowds than anyone in the political press expected, but it hasn’t paid much attention. Now, though: 10,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin? It’s no surprise a liberal candidate would get a crowd in Madison, which has a proud tradition of liberalism. But still, 10,000 people 16 months away …