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Why Righties talk about vote fraud

Stopping  vote fraud, trying to purge fake voters from election lists. Within the past few weeks Republicans suddenly insist on both. It's easy to jump to scary conclusion. Perhaps the GOP is preparing...

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Latest Rightie Paranoid Fantasy

Barack made a speech in Colorado Springs calling for a "civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well-funded, and just as strong [as the military]." The daffiest Righties are...

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Should Obama encourage hyper-inflation?

The core problem right now is we owe everybody lots of dollars. As both individuals and a country we owe ots of people lots of money. Inflation makes those dollars worth less, and thus makes it easier...

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How we can still get Medicare Buy-In...

This is a three-step process. Support the current Senate bill. Do ok next November -- replace Lincoln with a real Democrat, knock off a Republican Senator (that dude in NC nobody's heard of is probably...

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To Mass Readers: Vote on the 19th

And urge your friends to vote. The reason the polls are all over the place is simple: some pollsters think Progressives will look outside, see the snow, and go make hot cocoa. Others don't.That is the...

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What States Actually Issue Long Form Birth Certificates?

The question I have is simple: what states give out long form birth certificates?

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A Question for Libya Skeptics

On my personal blog I've been very pro-war because I think victory is basically inevitable. But lots of smartpeople I respect are more skeptical.Here's what I think will happen:1) We blow up Gaddafi's...

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Why Libya and not other places?

The reason is pretty simple: There's no reason to stay out of Libya.Every other potential target is a lot harder. Some are in the sphere of influence of a country we can't afford to offend, others have...

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Detroit Problems

I've seen a lot of hand-wringing about Detroit's problems, but not a lot of solutions.IMO the core problem is that the City is too damn small. Basically Metro Detroit's Ghetto gets to represent the...

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War Opponents Figure out We did it (partly) because the French Asked

If you've read my blog (which you don't, because nobody does), you knew that part of the reason we intervened in Libya was the French and British were really gung-ho on the idea. They could apply a lot...

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John Yoo Wants us to Fight in Libya Like we Did in Iraq

Two Bushies, the torturememo guys, just wrote a paper on Libya. It's incredibly stupid.

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Libyan Rebels Offer Peace

Some folks seem to think the rebel's latest peace offer is evidence they think they've lost. The Christian Science Monitor, for example, has the headline Libyan rebels offer cease-fire. Does Qaddafi...

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Goldstone Recants (kinda)

One thing that always annoys me is when people assume the latest news is the only news. For example, Abraham Bell's article claims that Israelis believe the Goldstone report was a big deal to...

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My poor hometown...

Apparently half of Detroiters are functionally illiterate.This is a classic Detroit problem: every possible solution sucks. Charters obviously won't work because we have them, and we suck. More money...

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Nate Silver Really Doesn't get Allan Lichtman

In a recent piece Nat Silver takes on Allan Lichtman's recent assertion that Obama is a lock. I don't agree with Lichtman, but Silver's case seems to be based largely on his assumption that the Keys to...

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On that TNR Article Re: the Mandate

I've done a lot of thinking about that article. It's got some great examples of alleged mandates from the 1790s. The Mandate to buy guns in the Militia Act is one, but that isn't terribly relevant...

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One thing non-Detroiters really don't get about Detroit...

Is how incredibly racially divided the region is. Matty Yglesias is ussually a fairly smart observer of urban affairs, but he recently predicted Mitt Romney of all people would be made the Emergency...

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What's Great About Detroit

I'm planning on making a lot of Diaries about the City, and since the City is in pretty bad shape most of them are gonna be quite critical. But I want everyone to know that this criticism isn't just...

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Why Detroit has Problems

Given all the great things I mentioned about Detroit in my last diary, you're probably wondering how Detroit got to be in such bad shape. It's a perennial winner on the worst-crime lists, it doesn't...

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My Solution for Detroit's Ills

It's quite simple. It's actually already been done in Phillie, New York, and the entire province of Ontario: Abolish as many of the local jurisdictions in the Detroit area as possible, including...

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What's wrong with urban politics today

Everybody assumes everything is a zero-sum game. Either the suburbs must prosper, or the urban core must prosper. There is no middle ground. Joel Kotkin seems to be a pretty smart guy. But he doesn't...

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Blacks and the NSA/PRISM/Snowden Scandals

To a non-black person, particularly a Civil Libertarian, it may seem odd that roughly zero black people seem to care about this issue. The people who care are almost entirely whites who make fairly...

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The Detroit Disaster

I am not happy today. Not happy at all. I was not expecting actual bankruptcy. I kinda thought the entire point of the Emergency Manager was to avoid bankruptcy, but whatever. Apparently the unions...

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Julian Assange is Arrogant

I know this is not an extremely original observation, but the recent Arstechnica piece on his Senate candidacy in Australia annoyed me so much I have to repeat it.As you may know Assange is currently...

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Nobody Seems to get Syria

I love Matty Yglesias and William Saletan over at Slate. I love anti-war Democrats. But it's very clear they don't think about foreign policy on a regular basis. Syria is a very small country. It's 20...

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The search for Syria motivations is over

Here they are:An Israeli government official says Israel has issued a complaint to the U.S. about Palestinian officials leaking classified details about ongoing peace negotiations. Israeli and...

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One Weird Thing About the Gettysburg Address...

It's a great piece of writing, but most people miss a big part of the speech:  a lot of the speech is a defense of the idea that you can have a country that isn't a monarchy. At the time the political...

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Rand Paul's Ideas for Detroit

They won't work, but it's nice somebody is taking the problem seriously. Everyone's attitude is basically "Isn't it horrible that we can't do anything," when in fact it would be fairly trivial for any...

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What the Duck Dynasty Mess Shows about politics

Liberals suck at tactics. Conservatives suck at strategy.Let's be honest here. It was no shock that a Conservative Evangelical Christian thinks gay people are Evil Sinners Going to Hell, and that their...

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One story of Voter ID

Despite my screen-name, I live in Ohio. It's a nice place, but the Voter ID Law is a huge pain in the ass. In particular it's impossible to vote with a passport because your ID has to have your address...

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