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Democracy in America
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyiname…
Correspondents from The Economist discuss and debate American politics.
- Added on: Feb 3rd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: rogermcshane
- Listed in: Moderate Libertarian
- Tags: politics Republicans Democrats Barack Obama congress the economist
Recent Posts
Turning the tribes
More troops and a new strategy for Afghanistan MCCLATCHY reports that Barack Obama will send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan. That would fall short of General Stanley McChrystal's "low-risk option" of...
Meese quoted
You can't discuss overcriminalisation without discussing the drug war ED MEESE has got some nerve. The former attorney general under Ronald Reagan is quoted today in a New York Times article on how liberals and conse...
Target practice
Good news for Copenhagen, maybe THE Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin reports that American negotiators will bring an emissions reduction target with them to the Copenhagen climate-change talks, even th...
Killing grandma
Acknowledging the costs of endlessly trying to beat the reaper IN RESPONSE to a post of mine from Friday, commenter MaverEcon made an insightful point: "Whenever people talk about death, it's all about plati...
Waiting for White
A shake-up in Texas's gubernatorial race TOM SCHIEFFER is set to announce that he is leaving the race for Texas's Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Who? That's about right. And the Houston Chronicle is rep...
Just my \'magination
Vague fantasies won't un-paralyse American government THOMAS FRIEDMAN says that while China now makes everything in the universe (and, increasingly, sells it to Chinese people), the 21st century isn't theirs...
