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August 2010

Liveblogging Obama’s Iraq Address

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Jay Reding

I’ll be liveblogging President Obama’s address to the nation on the topic of Iraq. This will be a new kind of liveblog for this site. Updates will happen automatically, there’s no need to refresh the page. Don’t forget to read about Obama’s record on Iraq. After the speech, I’ll be assembling some commentary from around [...]

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Obama On Iraq: Setting The Record Straight

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Jay Reding

Tonight, President Obama will speak to the nation about the end of combat operations in Iraq. I’ll be liveblogging the speech here. I’ll be using a new system for liveblogging — as I liveblog the speech, you’ll be able to follow along without the need to reload the page. I’ll also be sending out liveblog [...]

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Who Is Glenn Beck?

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Jay Reding

Last weekend, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 showed up by the Lincoln Memorial for Glenn Beck’s "Restoring Honor" rally. At The New York Times, Ross Douthat wonders if the media isn’t underestimating Beck’s talents: The Fox News host had promised that the rally, billed as a celebration of American values, would be an explicitly apolitical [...]

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Income Inequality, The Higher-Ed Bubble, And The Crash

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Jay Reding

In The New Republic, Raghuram G. Rajan argues that income inequality is the real reason for the financial crash. Income inequality is one of the favorite themes of the left, but Rajan’s argument has some merit to it. He observes: Economists argue over the reasons for the growing inequality—changes in taxation, increasing trade, weaker unions, [...]

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A Few Words On The Senate

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Jay Reding

Nate Silver is at his new digs over at The New York Times, and he has his forecast for this year’s Senatorial races. The short version: say hello to 6-7 new GOP Senators: and that doesn’t include the possibility of pickups in California, Illinois, Wisconsin, Washington, etc. Silver also finds that the possibility of a [...]

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Why The Republicans Will Take The House In November

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Jay Reding

I am making a (not so bold) prediction: the Republican Party will take back the House in November. The days of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will end next year. Back in April, FiveThirtyEight, a Democratic-leaning but still valuable polling site, looked at the generic ballot measure to predict a possible 50-seat loss for [...]

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