Brad DeLong's WebsiteA Semi-Daily Journal That Is Fair, Balanced, and a Proud Member of the Reality-Based CommunityDan Froomkin Writes to Jay Rosen- December 19, 2005 Dan Froomkin writes about what he thinks he is doing with WPNI's Dan Froomkin's "Cooking with Walnuts" column. I think that there is always sufficient "lack of transparency" inside any White House to leave plenty of room for a White House Watch column informed by "the same passion for answers and accountability" that Dan brings: PressThink: Two Washington Posts May Be Better Than One : Jay asked me yesterday -- back when it was a little more relevant -- to weigh in on whether or not I...http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2005-3_archives/001802.html Department of Redundancy Department- December 19, 2005 In the aftermath of the Great Typepad Meltdown of 2005, it seems to me that it is time to increase the redundancy of my weblog. I will keep the main weblog at http:delong.typepad.com, with assorted site feeds http:delong.typepad.comsdjatom.xml and http:delong.typepad.comsdjindex.rdf. I will mirror the main weblog at http:braddelong.blogspot.com, with associated site feed http:braddelong.blogspot.comatom.xml. In addition, I will mirror another copy on my office machine. The address...http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2005-3_archives/001801.html Why Wouldn't They Go to the FISA Court- December 19, 2005 Laura Rozen thinks that Noah Schachtman is right: the NSA domestic intercept program that the Bush administration set up to evade oversight by the FISA court is the result of improvements in technology followed by utter stupidity in its application: War and Piece: I think Noah Shachtman is onto something. Wonder if some new data mining or other technology meant that the way they got "probable cause" was through what the courts would deem illegal search and seizure Is this about some...http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2005-3_archives/001800.html A Self-Esteem Problem- December 19, 2005 Pharyngula watches Gregg Easterbrook attack Richard Dawkins: Pharyngula : Easterbrook... is outraged at the arrogance of the damned atheist. Don't take this personally, but if you are an American adult there is a one in two chance that Richard Dawkins, a renowned professor of science at Oxford, thinks you are "ignorant, stupid or insane," unless you are "wicked." These are the adjectives Dawkins chooses to describe the roughly 100 million Americans adults who, if public opinion polls are.http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2005-3_archives/001799.html Right-Wing Class War- December 19, 2005 Ah. Distributional implications of current tax-cut packages: Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Reconciliation Tax-Cut Packages Flawed, Rev 112905: Who Benefits from the House and Senate Tax-Cut Packages... Both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate tax-cut packages would primarily benefit upper-income taxpayers. Under both bills, more than three-quarters of the gains from the major provisions in the bill would go to people with incomes over $100,000 a year.... The...http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2005-3_archives/001798.html |