Category: the right
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A short political glossary
Some rules help with a simple guide that can provide rigorous analysis of politics
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“Neoliberal” is a dishonest word
“Neoliberal” was coined by Milton Friedman in the 1950s as a friendly seeming marketing rebrand for the same old conservative economics policies. What Friedman and his colleagues really meant was that working people needed to be made to suffer to accept lower living standards through a rerun of conservative economic…
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What passes for thinking on the right (and at NYPD)
There is a sad web site for current and former New York City cops called “Thee Rant”, where you can learn quickly why NYC has such a huge yearly bill for lawsuits against the police from the angry, resentful, entitled, and most of all stupid material posted. Recently some member…
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Robin Hanson and the Dark Web against America.
Robin Hanson, is a professor at a Koch funded George Mason University who recently confessed that the basic principles of democracy and the enlightenment are incomprehensible to him: I’ve long puzzled over the fact that most of the concern I hear expressed on inequality is about the smallest of (at least) seven…
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Economics and the mathematics of the Koch brothers.
Robert Lucas won the Nobel Prize for Economics and is widely cited as an authority. One of his more important papers from the 1990s discuses tax policy and uses a mathematical model of the economy to supposedly show that taxing capital gains is a bad idea. The mathematical model is…
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José and Pharaoh in Austin
José’s brothers were jealous of him because he learned and studied while they just drank beer and hung out all day and he was the favorite of his hard working parents. So the brothers sold José to narcotraficantes who made him carry drugs up into Egypt Tejas, where he was…
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