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...

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...

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...

He thinks that Obama is not doing well, but that there is no reason to think that McCain would be doing any better: The Arena - Politico's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers: I’ve gotten this question from several of my conservative friends lately. They know that I publicly dec...

He writes: The Big Dither: [A]mong people I talk to there’s a growing sense of frustration, even panic... when it comes to dealing with the banks, the Obama administration is dithering. Policy is stuck in a holding pattern.... [A]dministration officials, usually speaking off the record, float ...

Hoisted from comments: Joe S.: I'm a lawyer. I agree with Brian. The smoking gun has long been in plain sight: Yoo's omission of Youngstown Sheet & Tube in his torture memo. The recent release merely adds to it. However, as a lawyer, let me point out something else. It will be extremely hard to conv...

Orin Kerr is a proud and welcome member of the John-Yoo-Is-a-Bad-Faith-Actor caucus: Orin Kerr: John Yoo: "Now that I'm not in the government, part of my role, because I have a certain amount of expertise, is to try to keep the government honest." -- From an interview with the Orange County Register...

Carlos Lozada interviews James K. "Dow 36000" Glassman. Lozada pulls his punches--there is a stunning lack of follow-up: OUTSPOKEN: A Conversation With James K. Glassman: LOZADA: So, 10 years ago you predicted the Dow would reach 36,000 [in 3 to 5 years--note]. This week, the Dow fell to its lowest ...