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Monday, October 13th, 2008

They Have a Word for It

In the course of considering Peak Wingnut Theory, John Cole discovers Erick Erickson of Red State staying classy by booming a National Enquirer story about the possibility that, as Erickson puts it, "Barack Obama had an underage, gay affair with a pedophile." That’s a pretty interesting way to describe what may have happened between the [...]

Monday, October 13th, 2008

The proper way to decide the merits of an academic’s research

By Thoreau
I know nothing about Paul Krugman’s economic research.  I know that he’s a professor of economics at a good school, but there are many people like that and not all of them are Nobel candidates.  Because I know nothing about his economic scholarship, I shall do like everybody else on the internet and judge [...]