Isn’t life a bitch? No sooner than Singapore is ranked as the world’s most competitive nation by another think tank, the economy tanks. It’s the worst slump in at least 33 years, reports Bloomberg. And things are not going to get much better soon, the prime minister said the other day. It’s ...

It's not just the political parties that have had to change policy gear for the recession.  The think tanks are also under pressure to refocus.  The Conservative leadership, in particular, has been demanding more help from them as it seeks to develop its own response to the deepest economi...

I'm browsing the Washington Post op-ed pages this morning. Let's see: "Revenge of the Tax Code", a column by some guy I never heard of named Chris Edwards which starts out tagging Democratic nominees for their tax problems and turns into a full-court press for... the regressive flat tax! I mean, WTF...

It’s been awhile since there’s been a good, old fashioned “you can’t do that in the blogosphere” controversy, but this morning Memeorandum brings us one in the form of a public rebuke to nomadic Center for American Progress (CAP) blogger Matthew Yglesias by CAP interim ...

Former Tory Chairman Lord Saatchi is to become the Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies, succeeding Lord (Norman) Blackwell. Jill Kirby, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies for one year, issued this statement: “I am delighted to welcome Maurice as Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studi...

From America’s “Jewish Triangleâ€� to Iraqi’s “Sunni Triangleâ€� Government Job Notice: No Gentiles Need Apply Mohamed Khodr “The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century.â€� –Yuri Slezkine, Professor of History at University of Ca...

The conservative Media Research Center has created the “Free Speech Alliance”–an organization dedicated to fighting the revival of the Fairness Doctrine. The Media Research Center today officially announced the Free Speech Alliance, a gathering of a multitude of organizations and h...

Who you are: Amy PelmanWhat you do: Audiovisual and Young Adult Outreach LibrarianWhere you do it: Burlingame Public Library RTT: Describe a project or activity that you have worked on that was outside your comfort zone. Why was it uncomfortable? How did you adapt? Were you glad you took on the proj...

Yet again, the comments to a previous post have gone on an interesting tangent. Once again Jeff was behind it. He’s not afraid to get stuck into a debate and he always has some interesting points to share, even though I don’t always agree with him! I thought the discussion was quite good...

A review of environmental skepticism literature from the past 30 years has found that the vast majority of skeptics, often identified as independent, are directly linked to politically oriented, conservative think tanks. The study, published in this month's issue of Environmental Politics, analyzed ...