the monkey cage had its first birthday last week on november 26 to be precise. this date slipped by me and perhaps my cobloggers but i didnt want to leave it unremarked.
this post will focus on statistics from the first year. the second will provide some of my thoughts on how this first year has gone.
in our first year that is up to nov. 26 2008 we wrote...... [Show More]
david corn mojoblog
the curious retention of robert gates barack obamas national security teamat this early stagemdas hpresents more questions than answers. his selection of hillary clinton to be secretary of state has been a muchchewedover topic of pundit puzzlement. and with the monday morning unveiling ...... [Show More]
kevin drum being right Post Source: theenlighteneddespot.com Posted: Dec 01 2008 23:48:33
about yglesias being wrong
matt yglesias approvingly notes something that hank paulson said today
we need to get to the place in this country where no institution is too big or too interconnected to fail.
hmmm. is this even possible trying to regulate leverage is hard enough but trying to directly regulate size and int erconnecte dness822 1 do we really want to do tha...... [Show More]
for realsies check these out
tucker carlson asks why are christians having better sex than the rest of us
the maureen dowd on tina fey vanity fair piece
mother jones photoessay on the kkks seamstress
posted in uncategori zedtagg ed im in love with tina fey procrastination station racism reading list...... [Show More]
obamas retention of gates as secretary of defense signals above all a clear unwillingness on obamas part to engage in politically difficult fights at the start of his administration. consider what rahm emanuel stated would be obamas first legislative priorities when he becomes president
asked what barack obama was elected to do and what legislation hes likely to...... [Show More]
o say can you buy
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i had been cursing up and down the aisles at the grocery store for half an hour when i finally found a can of black beans claiming to be 100 usa family farm organically grown. i was on a weeklong mission to buy only americanmade goods and my very first shopping trip had turned into a debacle. id bee...... [Show More]
aryan outfitters Post Source: universedate.com Posted: Dec 01 2008 19:08:46
ms. ruth is a 58yearold seamstress who sews hoods and robes for the ku klux klan. she works 12 hours a day and uses all the proceeds to care for her quadriplegic daughter.
check out the fascinating photoessay and audio interviews with ms. ruth.
contribute add an image link video or comment ...... [Show More]
even as international climate talks are beginning in poznan poland the worlds top climate scientists are warning that earths climate is changing more quickly and deeply than the benchmark ipcc report predicted just last year.
new studies are showing that human activity may be triggering powerful natural forces that may be nearly impossible to reverse and that could push temperatures ...... [Show More]
defense spending will be one of the most important if not the most important budgetary fight during obamas first term. as such this paragraph from obamas press conference today is receiving a lot of play emphasis mine
we will also ensure that we have the strategy and resources to succeed against al qaeda and the taliban obama told a news confere...... [Show More]
obama to name cabinet nominees. obama is f inna formally announce hrcs nomination to secretary of state in the next hour meaning kevin drum has to eat his hat .a the vaguelysuperhuman samantha power the pulitzerwinning foreign policy wonk and close obama friend who was jettisoned from the obama campaigna for calling hrc a mon ster822 1 is aalso back and a worki...... [Show More]
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brad delong asks a question which seems obvious enough to me but seems to elude him.
le citi toujours dormer
why oh why cant we have a better press corps eric dash and julie creswell write that
citigroup had poor risk controls.
as a result the bank owned 43 billio...... [Show More]
a team of rivals Post Source: lycanthropia.whistleandfish.com Posted: Dec 01 2008 05:45:36
steve brodner imagines barack obamas cabinet as a team of rivals at motherjones with hillary clinton as secretary of state bristol palin as secretary of health and human services michelle bachman as head of the environmental protection agency and a tarantula with no job title but hopefully there to sink its fangs into bachman.
apparently the atlanta journalc...... [Show More]
weekend link dump Post Source: www.undiplomatic.net Posted: Dec 01 2008 02:00:58
light linking this weekend i think everyone was too stoned on tryptophan to blog much. . .
spencer ackerman writing last july profiles upandcoming women in national security two of whom are now playing a key role in the obama transition.
spencer again suggests that dick holbrooke would be a perfect choice for u.s. ambassador to iraq. kevin drum counters that obama should s...... [Show More]
onwards mumbai Post Source: palisade.winterwoodmusings.com Posted: Nov 30 2008 21:41:57
last week a brazen terrorist attack occurred in mumbai where armed and tenacious men targeted luxury hotels a hospital and other places at nighttime spraying crowds with bullets. they were looking for british and american targets the two countries that aggressively led the charge into iraq. you may recall that the bush administration itself concluded that its efforts in iraq were cre...... [Show More]
logic whats that Post Source: www.psychopolitik.com Posted: Nov 30 2008 17:00:04
sure the complex can stump people easily making even geniuses seem feebleminded.a but true capitals stupid is immune to simplicity.a capitals stupid is so powerful that a coin flip can be read as less than a 5050 chance.a number 3 has my vote kevin....... [Show More]
the cassandra hunt Post Source: soup.guan.dk Posted: Nov 30 2008 13:42:00
marginal revolution kevin drum comments here is brad delong and matt yglesias and arnold kling they make good points all around. there arent nearly as many cassandras as you think once you require more of a person than having called the housing bubble. a simple question is what financial stocks a person had shorted as of say november 2007 or for that matter j...... [Show More]
analysis oil drop wont ease latin american resource nationalism soon
caracas reuters latin american energy producers are unlikely to ease taxes on foreign oil companies in the near term despite tumbling crude prices in an attempt to keep government coffers full.
leaders such as venezuelas hugo chavez at the fore of a charge for resource nationalism duri...... [Show More]
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