Nick Baumann |
I cover national politics and civil liberties issues for the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones. I have also written for The Economist, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic, and Commonweal. Email me at nbaumann [at] motherjones [dot] com. |
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Notes USA Today Is Too Dumb for Words When It Comes to TaxesI cannot believe that professional journalists still make this mistake.
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Notes"That grandpa is seventy and not paying any income tax isn’t some kind of crazy trick he’s pulled. Grandpa doesn’t have a job." -
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Notes"Watching both the United States and Europe careen recklessly toward fiscal oblivion simultaneously is not something I thought I’d see in my lifetime. Just goes to show my lack of imagination, I guess." -
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Notes"Election-year changes in the size of the national debt do not affect election outcomes. And it does not matter that a deal could make Obama appear “bipartisan.” Independent voters do not put political process ahead of the most tangible outcome: the economy."For the love of God people, listen to John Sides. He has data on this stuff.
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Notes The NYT Doesn't Understand Marginal Tax RatesTruly horrifying.
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Notes"White Americans, in short, thought that anti-white bias was a greater societal problem by the ’00s than anti-black bias."I was honestly surprised to read this. Maybe I shouldn’t have been. Paging Louis C.K.: White Americans See Anti-White Bias on the Rise
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NotesThis is a pretty serious pwn of Fox News from Jon Stewart re: the whole Common nonsense.
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Moron Columnist Slams Rangers Pitcher For Missing Start To Witness Birth Of Child
Great takedown.
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"Van Hollen, a close ally of Nancy Pelosi, and Podesta, the consummate Democratic insider, aren’t Blue Dogs. They represent the center-left—the very heart of the Democratic party’s mainstream. And for both of them to praise Bowles-Simpson as an “important starting point” for the debate on deficit reduction reveals just how successful the Republicans have been in shifting the entire debate to the right in just three months’ time."
My main takeaway from Suzy Khimm’s excellent report on “The Dems’ Deficit Reduction Balancing Act.” Read it.
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I’ll say it: L. Ron Hubbard is a f-ing terrible writer, and Modern Library’s reader voters are morons. Also, did Paul Ryan vote like 1,000 times?
