Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
MEGAN MCARDLE: “Remember how we had to bail out Chrysler and give the company to Fiat because they were going to save American jobs and the environment with their awesome new electric cars? The electric cars that were going to start hitting the streets in 2010? Apparently, now that they’ve gotten the money, [...]
Unqualified Offerings (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Megan McArdle talks a lot of sense about the Fort Hood massacre, but she has an unfair advantage: she’s not an anti-Muslim bigot, nor does she have the overarching aim to delegitimize all Muslim participation in American politics. Otherwise, she might see a worrying pattern in the fact that something similar has happened in the [...]
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Megan McArdle, who blogs at the Atlantic, gained some current notoriety for writing about the Fort Hood massacre "there is absolutely no political lesson to be learned from this." Now she writes a follow-up: . . . I have since changed my mind. That's because there's growing evidence that the army and the CIA knew he was a crazy fanatic who wanted to get in touch with Al Qaeda....
Judeopundit (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Megan McArdle, who blogs at the Atlantic, gained some current notoriety for writing about the Fort Hood massacre "there is absolutely no political lesson to be learned from this." Now she writes a follow-up : . . . I have since changed my mind. That's because there's growing evidence that the army and the CIA knew he was a crazy fanatic who wanted to get in touch with Al Qaeda....
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
MEGAN MCARDLE: Worst. Talking Point. Ever. “If this is the best the Democrats can come up with, they are in deep, deep trouble.” Worries about unemployment, like taxes, are for the little people.
And Still I Persist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Hat tip to Megan McArdle. ..bruce w..
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
MEGAN MCARDLE ON NORTH AND SOUTH IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: “As long as social issues dominate the Republican Party, they will continue losing their north–I had a lot of relatives who at least considered voting for Obama. Ironically, I wonder if the tea parties won’t help bring the two wings of the Republican [...]
<B>Power and Control</B> (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Megan McArdle is discussing the split in the Republican Party. Her points are interesting but I especially like this comment. Wes November 4, 2009 4:42 PM The Warning: so long as the religious, non-northeastern right sets the agenda a) nationally, and b) in Our Own neck of the woods, Northeastern Republicans will question our association with the party. If this party is to return to it's...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Ezra Klein persuasively argues that the Democrats erred by wandering into a $900 billion ceiling on the cost of health care legislation. Megan McArdle responds that no, the limit makes sense: it seems to me quite obvious how the number got picked and why it became a hard limit: it would be very difficult to sell a bill that's any bigger. A health care bill much bigger could be plausibly...
11D (Free subscription) | yesterday
The blogosphere and on op-ed pages are full of thoughtful commentary on whether or not we should blame to Nidal Hasan for the Fort Hood incident, example Megan McArdle, David Brooks, and John Podhoretz. Is he crazy, evil, or part...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... but that was not the target audience. The closest thing to mainstream media would have been Megan McArdle, who presumably said she would be there (there was a placard for her), but did not show. The rest of us were independents: Complete Story »
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | yesterday
... if you are one of the over five million people who have been out of work for more than six months. Megan McArdle takes GDP worship to task in the November issue of the Atlantic , in a piece entitled "Misleading Indicator." McArdle writes that Simon Kuznets made a "titanic achievement" when he created a system of national accounts, but GDP "counts the...
Liberal Values (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Republicans would love to blame Obama for the unemployment rate but this would also contradict their belief that the government cannot do much to affect the economy. Libertarian Megan McArdle is honest about this in defending Obama against an op-ed by Charles Blow which does blame him: The president has very little control over employment in [...]
In the Agora (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In a post discussing the Fort Hood attacks, Megan McArdle writes: This particular attack would have been very hard to stop for anyone, without doing terrible, terrible things to our Muslim citizens. And if you think that’s okay, I invite you to consider whether you would be all right with similar incursions into evangelical churches every time [...]
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... question of what political lessons to draw from Hassan and the Fort Hood shootings, and I think Megan McArdle is spot-on when she writes : [I]t wasn't new information that there are Muslims in the world who object to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and would like to kill a bunch of Americans. It was always possible that one of them, somewhere, was going to find their way to somewhere...
