Nathaniel Ward » Elections http://www.nathanielward.net Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:14:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What I’m Reading — January 14th http://www.nathanielward.net/2010/01/what-im-reading-january-14th/ http://www.nathanielward.net/2010/01/what-im-reading-january-14th/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:34:41 +0000 Nathaniel Ward http://www.nathanielward.net/?p=580
  • Campaign Finance Reform’s Unending Quest to Limit Our Rights. Bradley Smith explains how campaign finance “reform” has continued to erode basic constitutional protections: “every time we close off one avenue of political participation, politically active Americans will turn to the next most effective legal means of carrying on their activity. That next most effective means will then become the loophole that must be closed.”
  • Gmail Users Are More Active on Social Media.
  • The GOP Shouldn’t Count It’s Chickens Just Yet. Ramesh Ponnuru: “Republicans shouldn’t get carried away. There are 10 months to go before the midterm elections, and the political climate can change a lot in that time.”
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  • Unintended Consequences of Credit Card ‘Reform.’ “‘We basically socialized the bearing of the risk,’ said Ken Clayton, managing director of card policy for the American Bankers Association, a trade group. ‘That’s why good customers sometimes have to bear the cost of the risk that others pose.’”
  • Ponnuru on Repositioning Conservatism. “The [GOP] problem has instead been that voters have not thought Republicans of any stripe had answers to their most pressing concerns. Addressing those concerns, rather than repositioning itself along the ideological spectrum, is the party’s main challenge.”
  • Big Ben on Twitter
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  • Why trains run slower now than they did in the 1920s.
    Lower demand, more freight and more government regulation conspire to reduce train speeds.
  • An interview with the old RNC webmaster
    “What I discovered is technological development cycles will always overlap with campaign cycles, and that’s not conducive to having efficient technology, because when you’re in campaign mode you’re not going to want to deal with alpha or beta products or sit through the development of something that hasn’t been tested.”
  • Redskins win new legal fight with Indian group
    Is “the appropriateness of Native American imagery for team names” really a legal question? Perhaps the name and logo are insensitive, but there’s certainly no “right not to be offended.”
  • Obama administration plans a new regulator for consumer finance.
    This is certainly ripe for all kinds of overreach, and could easily backfire.
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