United Citizens and Wisconsin
by Run 75441 United Citizens and Wisconsin Heading into the Tuesday vote Mayor Barrett with ~$4million in election funds of which 26% is drawn from out of state sources faces off with the under siege...
View ArticlePaul Ryan and Scott Walker Come Out for Repeal of Federal Child-Labor Laws,...
Oh, my — not only was Paul Ryan’s hunger=dignity speech appalling on the merits, the anecdote he used to make his point was fake — a distortion of a real story with a completely different point. I’m...
View ArticleChris Cillizza Misses the Point. (The most important point, anyway.)
Anecdotal evidence, the basis of so much journalism prior to the rise of the data movement and still, to my mind, over-relied upon — is just that: anecdotal. Roughly 65,000 people voted in the...
View ArticleThe Big Marquette Law School Walker/Burke Poll Coincidence
The latest Marquette Law School poll shows Scott Walker with 47 percent of likely voters, and Mary Burke with 47 percent of likely voters. Despite the last Marquette poll showing Walker up five points,...
View ArticleScott Walker Announces His Foreign Policy: Privatize Social Security and...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Two days after provocatively suggesting that standing up to organized labor in Wisconsin has prepared him to fight terrorists overseas as president, Scott Walker told a crowd of...
View ArticleThe ‘Brook Hill Dog’ Lithograph–With Update (albeit not on the subject of the...
Some of AB’s regular readers might have picked up on the fact that I’m obsessed with animal rescue. (Dan Crawford sure has!) And since AB is mostly an economics/fiscal-policy blog, it probably has...
View ArticleYup. It didn’t take long for mainstream political journalists to misread the...
Clinton is currently running ahead of all her likely Republican opponents, according to RealClearPolitics, but not by much: 4.2 points ahead of Marco Rubio; 5.2 points over Jeb Bush; and 6.8 points...
View ArticleThe Bizarre Attempt to Present Bernie Sanders As the Democrats’ Donald Trump
Stranger things have happened in American politics, but the sudden surge of Democratic/populist Bernie Sanders and Republican/populist Donald Trump puts one in mind of alternate universes. And I don’t...
View ArticleScott Walker vs. the Walton Family and McDonald’s’ CEO
The left claims they’re for American workers, and they’ve got lame ideas, things like minimum wage. Instead of focusing on that, we need to talk about how we get people skills and qualifications they...
View ArticleThe Oklahoma Republican Party calls Walmart and the mega-corporate fast-food...
In any event, it’s completely unclear where people will stop in for hamburgers and fries, and where they will buy extremely cheap household items, once the fast food industry and Walmart have ceased to...
View ArticleThere are limits to the analogy between Clinton’s 2008 primary contest with...
We got to the end in June, and I did not put down conditions. I didn’t say, ‘you know what, if Senator Obama does X, Y, and Z, maybe I’ll support him.’ I said, ‘I’m supporting Senator Obama, because no...
View ArticleUnited Citizens and Wisconsin
by Run 75441 United Citizens and Wisconsin Heading into the Tuesday vote Mayor Barrett with ~$4million in election funds of which 26% is drawn from out of state sources faces off with the under siege...
View ArticlePaul Ryan and Scott Walker Come Out for Repeal of Federal Child-Labor Laws,...
Oh, my — not only was Paul Ryan’s hunger=dignity speech appalling on the merits, the anecdote he used to make his point was fake — a distortion of a real story with a completely different point. I’m...
View ArticleChris Cillizza Misses the Point. (The most important point, anyway.)
Anecdotal evidence, the basis of so much journalism prior to the rise of the data movement and still, to my mind, over-relied upon — is just that: anecdotal. Roughly 65,000 people voted in the...
View ArticleThe Big Marquette Law School Walker/Burke Poll Coincidence
The latest Marquette Law School poll shows Scott Walker with 47 percent of likely voters, and Mary Burke with 47 percent of likely voters. Despite the last Marquette poll showing Walker up five points,...
View ArticleScott Walker Announces His Foreign Policy: Privatize Social Security and...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Two days after provocatively suggesting that standing up to organized labor in Wisconsin has prepared him to fight terrorists overseas as president, Scott Walker told a crowd of...
View ArticleThe ‘Brook Hill Dog’ Lithograph–With Update (albeit not on the subject of the...
Some of AB’s regular readers might have picked up on the fact that I’m obsessed with animal rescue. (Dan Crawford sure has!) And since AB is mostly an economics/fiscal-policy blog, it probably has...
View ArticleYup. It didn’t take long for mainstream political journalists to misread the...
Clinton is currently running ahead of all her likely Republican opponents, according to RealClearPolitics, but not by much: 4.2 points ahead of Marco Rubio; 5.2 points over Jeb Bush; and 6.8 points...
View ArticleThe Bizarre Attempt to Present Bernie Sanders As the Democrats’ Donald Trump
Stranger things have happened in American politics, but the sudden surge of Democratic/populist Bernie Sanders and Republican/populist Donald Trump puts one in mind of alternate universes. And I don’t...
View ArticleScott Walker vs. the Walton Family and McDonald’s’ CEO
The left claims they’re for American workers, and they’ve got lame ideas, things like minimum wage. Instead of focusing on that, we need to talk about how we get people skills and qualifications they...
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