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DACA isn’t about DACA

  • Posted on September 14, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I was going to publish my post about police violence in the US today, but Schumer and Pelosi released a statement about DACA last night, so I figured that I should make a quick point about this instead. According to…

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Moving the goalposts on Trump’s collusion with Russia

  • Posted on July 19, 2017June 13, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I thought my last post on the Trump/Russia nonsense was clear, but it must not have been clear enough, since I’m still accused of having moved the goalposts on this story. In fact, not only have I done no such…

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On Trump’s collusion with Russia, if you add nothing to nothing, what you get is still nothing

  • Posted on July 14, 2017November 9, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A few days ago, the New York Times published yet another story about the allegations that Trump’s campaign had colluded with Russia during thee election, which has since then resulted in massive hysteria in the media. It may have been…

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Links – 06/29/2017

  • Posted on June 29, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Sean Trende wrote a very good piece about the lessons we should draw from Ossoff’s failure in Georgia. (As I noted before, Trende is one of the most interesting political commentators in the US. In fact, if you should read…

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The debate about health care shows why viewpoint diversity is important

  • Posted on June 23, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

As you know, McConnell finally unveiled the Republican health care bill in Senate, which was immediately described as genocide by liberals. (I say that in jest, but I have no doubt that some people will actually say that, if they…

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Links – 06/11/2017

  • Posted on June 11, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Nicholas Wades of the New York Times discusses research about the Y chromosome which suggests that some of the differences between males and females could originate from the role played by regulative genes on the X and Y chromosomes. The Boston Review…

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Links – 05/21/2017

  • Posted on May 21, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The Nation published a piece about the history of Modern Monetary Theory. I’m very skeptical about MMT, but I’ve been meaning to read some of the literature about it for some time now. If you know a good introduction, please share…

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Links – 04/13/2014

  • Posted on April 13, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The word “entrée” is used to mean something like appetizer in France, yet in the US it’s used to mean something like “main dish”, i. e. pretty much the opposite. I have always been very puzzled by that, but Nora Matland…

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Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot by filibustering Gorsuch’s confirmation

  • Posted on April 3, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Schumer announced last week that Democrats would filibuster Gorsuch’s confirmation, which is a remarkably stupid decision. Since he was nominated in replacement of Scalia, Gorsuch wouldn’t fundamentally change the ideological balance of the Supreme Court. This means that, if Schumer…

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Trump, Russia and the media – The administration makes its case and it’s the red scare all over again (part 2)

  • Posted on February 22, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Despite the weakness of the evidence they provided, after private cybersecurity companies made those claims against Russia, the media almost unanimously accepted them as facts. This became even more true after the US intelligence community started to publicly make very…

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