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Need Some Money? Free Some Prisoners!
Against Transparency
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What's the Deal With Baucus's $80 Bn Surplus?
Richard Rubin of CQ has an interesting piece (subscription required) about what can be done with the $81 billion surplus CBO projects under the Baucus health care bill. Short version: Not much. READ MORE >>
What Washington Should Do to Create Jobs
Rob Shapiro is the chair of the NDN Globalization Imitative and chairman of Sonecon, LLC. READ MORE >>
Explaining Job-Creation to the Small Business Lobby
CBO's Latest Projections Out. Reason for Relief? And Concern?
CBO is out with its rough estimates of the Senate Finance bill as it looks now, following the amendments made during the recent markup hearings. Here's my initial take, informed loosely by a few conversations with experts and insiders: READ MORE >>
Karl Rove, Lifelong Gay-Baiter
In the course of discussing with Sam Tanenhaus his book The Death of Conservatism (an expansion of this essay he wrote for TNR), Reihan Salam claims in passing Karl Rove never imagined that opposition to same-sex marriage would cement a permanent Republican majority. It was a distraction that I'm sure he found distasteful. READ MORE >>
Let Them Vote
Why Guinea is on the Brink
More atrocious details from the Guinean junta's recent crackdown on protesters—of women knifed, whipped, and raped repeatedly by soldiers—surfaced in the Times yesterday. Until recently, the former French colony of approximately 10 million had a reputation for being among the most stable of its West African neighbors. READ MORE >>
