Nathaniel Ward » Republicans 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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  • Ponnuru on the GOP’s Economic Naysaying “Shouldn’t we have a fallback plan in case the economy recovers? I think Republicans would be better advised to say that there are some good signs, none of which seem connected to liberal policies, and that those policies threaten to increase inflation before too long.”
  • Right Answer, Wrong Reason. Even the New York Times calls for changing the tax treatment of health care–but to raise revenues for another big spending plan, not to limit government distortions in the marketplace.
  • Washingtonian Cheap Eats — Google Map.
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  • The Financial Crisis, Free Markets, and the Nirvana Fallacy. David Bernstein on whether it really was the absence of regulation that precipitated the financial crisis.
  • Tax ‘Loopholes.’ The idea that Delaware holding companies offer a “tax loophole” depriving states of tax revenues is premised on the dubious notion that a government has some “rightful” claim to part of a private firm’s earnings.
  • David Brooks on the New Public-Private Partnerships. “These events have heralded a new era of partnership between the White House and private companies, one that calls to mind the wonderful partnership Germany formed with France and the Low Countries at the start of World War II.”
  • NRSC Angering Online Base Work with your online supporters, don’t alienate them.
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  • Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?
  • Chuck DeVore’s Quixotic Attempt to Twitter and Parody-Video His Way Into the U.S. Senate “‘They say the Internet is forever and things I write could be used against me in the future. If Alexander Hamilton and Lincoln lived today, would they be using their technology to get their message across? Yes,’ DeVore declares. ‘What are the Federalist Papers but the technological equivalent in the 1700s of the blogs?’”
  • In Defense of Distraction. Sam Anderson asks if it’s possible to retain our focus in a distraction-filled modern world–and does it matter? For what it’s worth, this took three sittings to get through.
  • Not Helping. This Facebook group makes out Republicans or conservatives as sore losers.
  • The Healthcare-Competitiveness Fallacy
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