Ben Smith has a story on some of the wild rumors buzzing all over the internet about Sens. Obama and McCain. There’s the usual “Obama isn’t an American citizen” and the Michelle Obama “whitey” tape that still hasn’t made its appearance. My favorite involves McCain and what he supposedly did on one of his vacations:
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Damn it, another conservative endorsed Sen. Obama. When it rains it pours. Now, I figure out how to subscribe to National Topsider so I can immediately cancel my subscription.
“As a Conservative, I Must Say I Do Quite Like the Cut of this Obama Fellow’s Jib” [via memeorandum]
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Cisco and Compete found Republicans and Democrats find online political videos:
Unsurprisingly, online video tended to be most popular with users between the ages of 25 and 34 and weighed slightly on the male side. When it comes to how they find online video, however, respondents differed a bit depending on their political affiliation. According to […]
David Brooks takes a break from calling Gov. Sarah Palin a “cancer” to write about the possible future of economics in public policy as a result of analyzing the financial crisis:
Economists and psychologists have been exploring our perceptual biases for four decades now, with the work of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, and also […]
Here’s more Tears for Fears…sort of.
[via Hot Air]
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The disruptions in the credit markets have begun to affect international trade. It’s where I’ve learned about something called “trade credit” which finances ships traveling across oceans. Increases in lending rates have hurt Asian economies:
Instead of relying on broad capital markets as is common in American and Europe, they seek credit in more traditional ways: […]
Here’s Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” because Steveegg mocked me for liking them:
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A strong voice in the conservative blogopshere left us today. Dean Barnett passed away at the age of 41. Sadly for me I never got the chance to meet or talk with Dean. But he was prolific enough on his own weblog as well as that of Hugh Hewitt’s and The Weekly Standard’s that I […]
Prior to talk of economic concepts as capital theory and monetary policy we should step back and examine the fundamental needs for a functioning economy that provides desired goods and services at the most efficient prices. We need to step back from the abstractions of equilibrium models and high-level mathematics and get at the underlying […]
Cris Rapp, who used to edit National Review, illustrates how tolerant that magazine is.
“National Review, Christopher Buckley, and the Firing that Wasn’t” [via S.T. Karnick]
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Arthur Herman reviews Philipp Blom’s The Vertigo Years and his description of pre-World War I eerily feels like today:
Mr. Blom gives us a picture of a Europe that, in spite of its wealth and sprawling empires, had become profoundly uncertain of itself. The vertigo he refers to was the cultural nausea that set in after […]
In a story about Gov. Sarah Palin dropping the puck at Friday’s St. Louis Blues game there’s this nugget:
Palin will attend a rally Friday morning in southwest Missouri. Demand for tickets for the Springfield event prompted the GOP to move it from a university arena to the parking lot at Bass Pro Shops to accommodate […]
Wisconsin is a drinking state. No doubt about it, but unlike other states Wisconsin has a broader base:
We down more alcohol per person than almost any state not because we drink so much, but because so many of us drink. With relatively few Wisconsinites abstaining, our consumption per drinker is lower than about half the […]
Even with the dramatic drop in stock prices it’s not wise to abandon the markets:
With stocks in the tank, who wants to hear about how important they are to saving for retirement, college, or your dream home theater? Big mistake. The only possible reason to be down on stocks as a long-term savings vehicle is […]
She showed America she can take a joke especially if it’s at her expense. Win or lose on Election Day I predict Gov. Palin will be host Saturday Night Live.
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