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A questionable game of 'shut up' on Iraq

chorus, not to mention Obama, were all opposed to the "surge," arguing that it couldn't work. It did, saving America from a humiliating defeat. My point here isn't simply to offer a tu quoque argument ... read more

Going on a Tax Holiday

everyone pile in the car - we're going on a tax holiday! *** The Fed continues to bamboozle consumers into thinking they are richer than they really are…the bull market in gold is NOT over ... probabl... read more

Voting to Support a Lesser Evil vs. Voting to Lessen Evil

but not “the same as Trump”. That Tu Quoque lie is, by force of habit, now the only thing an empty-headed GOP has left to relieve itself of the burning shame and guilt it bears for creating the disast... read more

The New York Times

“[T]he grandest pageant ever witnessed in the South,” reported the New York Times. Now a provisional congress held session in its chamber, doing the far less glamorous work required to bring the Confe... read more

European fiscal authorities issue warning over Catalonia crisis, Brexit

Independent fiscal authorities in Europe have warned that the eurozone is still at risk of slipping into another crisis, with the situation in Catalonia ... power but in other countries pay has not in... read more

Stephen Hawking Settles the God Question Once and For All

This is not exactly a hot flash — I remember writing an essay making the same point for a philosophy class my sophomore year in college — but it makes news because it’s Hawking who says it. And that’s ... read more

Marc Thiessen, Professional Torture Apologist, on EWTN

For those of you not following this sort of stuff ... this was little more than yet another application of MM’s favorite rhetorical strategy, the tu quoque (aka Pee Wee Herman’s “I know you are but wh... read more

Trump tariffs: Europe - we have a problem

There's no equivalent in the eurozone. A member state in crisis must pull itself up by its own bootstraps, even if the consequences are large external imbalances of currency area as whole. Europe is n... read more

Is It Time to Start Dismissing 'Economics Deniers'?

"I still find that much, if not most, of what is attributed to climate change is speculative, exaggerated or just plain wrong," he concluded—but on the fundamental point, he agrees: "Humans are almost ... read more

Cyprus furore is rocky start for new Dutch "Mr Euro"

enacted after the 2008 global financial crisis. The European Commission said the guarantee applied only if a bank collapsed and did not protect savers from fiscal measures decided by parliaments. Dijs... read more

Pierre Moscovici: “Spain is not Italy: it complies with the rules”

Of course we made mistakes, because we were facing a crisis that we could not anticipate and it led to hard times. But in the end, in the case of Greece, it was a win-win situation. The eurozone won a... read more

Jonah Goldberg: A questionable game of ‘shut up’ on Iraq

chorus, not to mention Obama, were all opposed to the “surge,” arguing that it couldn’t work. It did, saving America from a humiliating defeat. My point here isn’t simply to offer a tu quoque argument ... read more