From Best of the Web Today: The real proof that Wright is right about Obama, though, comes from this passage in a New York Times story from April 30, 2007--a year ago yesterday: Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in Mr. …
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Wright and Obama as a Dominant Strategy Equilibrium
http://voluntaryxchange.typepad.com/voluntaryxchange/2008/05/wright-and-obam.htmlPeople are surprised that Jeremiah Wright would speak out the way he has. I think this is a dominant strategy for him. If Obama wins, Wright will look like he supported a winner. If Obama loses (the election or the nomination), Wright will have more fodder for his arguments. …
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The GDP Grade
http://voluntaryxchange.typepad.com/voluntaryxchange/2008/05/the-gdp-grade.htmlThe advance estimate of real GDP growth for the first quarter came out this week at 0.6%. That's weak, but not a recession. On my preferred grading scale, this grades out as a D. On a scale that contemporary college student grading scale are used to it grades out as a C. …
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I’m Back
http://samablog.robsama.com/?p=3357Cupping and tweaking. Steamed citrus calamari. I saw Lidia make this on PBS, and now I have the recipe. I will make this once this summer. Marilyn Manson makes absinthe. Happy spamiversary. Best Rev. Wright caricature. Kollege kidz R Dum. Henry Blodget is back. The end is near. Craigie St Bistrot is expanding. We ate there recently, and it’s awesome. Rev. Wright email. I suspect that most black parishioners view hyperbole as stock in trade for their preachers.
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Cold Spring Shops
http://coldspringshops.blogspot.comTHEY'LL NEVER LACK FOR MATERIAL. Rate Your Students, that is.
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
http://jay-mccarthy.blogspot.com/2008/04/saturday-april-26th...Child Abuse in the name of Child Protection Legality The DM of the Rings Inside the Prison Pot and Kettle What the Book of Mormon says about the Bible PG13 Honest College Ad Monster Mormons Modern review of the BoM Dinosaurs Live! Woot! I lost
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Great minds think alike
http://newmarksdoor.typepad.com/mainblog/2008/04/great-minds...David Tufte quotes C. K. Chesterton: The problem isn't educating the uneducated but rather uneducating the educated. Which reminded me of a fine observation by Will Rogers: “It ain’t what you don’t know that hurts you. It’s what you know that ain’t so.”
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Find the best lists and internet resources to improve your knowledge | L-exp
http://www.l-exp.comThose $100 bills Stevenson and Wolfers on Happiness on CNBC Bad incentives in the legal system 37.-voluntaryXchange[2 new feeds] Tooth Decay and the Shangri-La Diet Megan McArdle Quote on American Exceptionalism 38.-Freakonomics[2 new feeds] The Economics of Happiness, Part 1: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox LIST-onomics: One in a Few 42.-The Mess that Greenspan Made[2 new feeds] There goes the neighborhood!
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Jimmy Carter's Legacy of Failure Continues
http://cinnamonstillwell.blogspot.com/2008/04/jimmy-carters-...Wherever U.S. interests have been imperiled and a temporary "peace" could be bought at the expense of long-term security, Carter has always been on board. The late Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan summed it up when he said of Carter in 1980, "Unable to distinguish between our friends and our enemies, he has essentially adopted our enemies' view of the world." Meddler and Failure Another of Jimmy Carter's dubious legacies has been the now common habit of former
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Reader & Short Links
http://samablog.robsama.com/?p=3334I haven’t done a summary in a while. So let’s do it now: Dave writes a great summary of an article by a NASA scientist who finds serious problems with global warming theories. SNL parody of Top Chef. How to discredit yourself. FSJ channels Baudelaire. Way cool math-music-sound-Flash-thingy. Discussion in the change in Obama’s branding (font-change). Google steals. Evite horrifies
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HD DVD - Learn more about High Def DVD Players
http://hddvd.analogtodigitalconverter.netunknown wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt In particular, we’ve just had a standards war over the next generation of DVDs, with Blu-Ray beating out HD-DVD. When consumers purchased HD-DVD content on disks, they did so to obtain
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Brave New SLD World
http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/10/brave-new-sld-wor...voluntaryXchange
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Cold Spring Shops
http://coldspringshops.blogspot.comCONDOLENCES. Voluntary Xchange's David Tufte reports the death of his father.
