Not Ezra Klein: EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect: When the GOP appears set to dump its first African-American leader mere weeks into his tenure in favor of a member of an all-white country club, it's hard for schadenfreude not to turn into genuine pity and concern. Obviously, this was in la...

The Department of Transportation's High Speed Ground Transportation (HSGT) program aims to finance high-speed rail connecting major urban centers at distances of 100 to 500 miles, with trains running at 150 - 250 mph.  But a Washington Post front-pager offers disquieting numbers that give ...

I swear, Milton Friedman is spinning in his grave... The debate over at the website of The Economist is even more horrifying than I thought it would be, as Luigi Zingales simply does not appear to have thought any of the issues through at all. I think that his views are what Steve Sheffrin calls the...

Over at http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/03/10/this-house-believes-we-are-all-keynesians-now/?disqus_reply=7087846#disqus-claim, Will Wilkinson writes: Brad DeLong and Luigi Zingales debate it at Economist.com. DeLong’s opening statement too effectively arrays a huge amount of intel...

Satyam Khanna reports: Sen. Bennett Lashes Out At Sen. McCain: ‘We Ought To’ Infest Arizona With ‘Mormon Crickets’: Recently, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has tweeted a series of top 10 lists of “porkiest projects” in the omnibus spending bill, criticizing “beave...

Why, hello again, Kelly Andrews. It's nice to see you becoming friends with all the lad mags—though with a rack like that, who wouldn't want to be your friend? galleryPost('kellyandrews0309', 6, ''); · Kelly Andrews Topless For Front Magazine 04/09 (dailypoa.com)...

The Brussels Journal:We have therefore in our asylum inmates on the upper financial floor, hanging beyond the parapet with all of us in tow, unspooling toilet paper that they swear is worth 7.5 times the total value of all the goods and services produced on Planet Earth. And all of the West’s gove...

He misses two important threads. Had John McCain won last November, very few of the New Deal denialists would be out in public--instead, the Republican legislators and their tame intellectuals would be enthusiastially rallying behind McCain's tax cut-based Keynesian fiscal stimulus package right now...

Hillary's Great Red Diplomatic Moment presenting a gift to Russian FM Sergei Lavrov with a wrong Russian word inscribed will no doubt get some flunky tossed to the sharks off the east coast of Florida.  Seems Ms. 3 AM Phone Call used the Russian word peregruzka, thinking she was saying &qu...

But contrary to the above is the view of a writer, Sam Schulman, who calls calls Barack Obama a Hamlet in an astringent Weekly Standard piece.  Calling President 44 "a 20th century liberal of a very conventional type: incurious, superior and vain," Schulman writes that like Hamlet 44...