I've done a courtesy search for the term Election 2006 for you. See if you can find what you're looking for in the list below:

• That’s because they get it Part Deux.

  Manwhore issued me an infantile challenge to put up a post about education. I took some of his request and am writing about the value of an education vs. the cost to get it, and to make the point that there are no job guarantees. While doing the research, I came across a timely and telling story, in the NYT of all places, dealing with the fact, despite the NYT blatant attempt to spin this … Read more

• The Taibbi Plan

  Matt Taibbi, one of the key members of the More Clever than Smart Club, has an essay on what he would have OccupyWallStreet demand. It’s making the rounds. Let’s go through it. I’ve almost finished reading The Big Short, a book you really should read to understand the recent financial crisis. So this will serve two purposes: responding to Taibbi and talking about what I learned from Michael Lewis.

  1. Break up the monopolies.

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• The Ever-Expanding Definition of “Extremism”

  I am going to quote an article below that, when you read the second to last paragraph, you might believe was prompted by the recent killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki, but as you can see from the date in the title, it was written a little over a year ago. Because of that, I thought it better to start a new post, rather than take the Awlaki thread too far afield, but it is tangentially related … Read more

• Why We Must Do What Reagan Did

  Reports are that the budget talks are falling apart. The Democrats have agreed to several trillion in budget cuts. But the GOP is refusing to budge even a little bit on taxation.

  If I read the reports correctly, we would get something like five dollars in spending cuts for every dollar in tax increases. This is far better deal than we got under Reagan, Bush 41 or Clinton. The GOP should hold out as … Read more