Thursday, January 26, 2012

Roundup

Matthew Yglesias untangles the confusing threads of Obama's economic proposals.
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The 10 most racist moments from the Republican candidates - so far.
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Bill Gates does the right thing and calls for higher taxes on the rich.
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Apparently politicians with competent looking faces - "masculine but approachable, with a square jaw, high cheekbones, and large eyes" - fair better come election time.
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Obama's State of the Union speech was written at an 8th grade level - and that's a good thing.
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After the Great Depression, there was a pronounced backlash against right-wing economic policies. In the midst of our current Great Recession, however, there seems to be a growing embrace of the very policies which have brought us here, argues Thomas Frank in his new book, Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right.

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