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January 27, 2010

“Obama’s rhetorical retreat”

David Harsanyi, Denver Post: Tax credits? Spending freezes? Deficit commissions? The president is starting to sound a lot like one of those fiscal he- devils the Democrats have been warning the nation about for years. Not to worry, true believers, Barack Obama only sounds like he’s making sense. The proposed three-year freeze sham accounts for less than a measly one-sixth of the federal budget and the deficit panel already has

Why I was wrong about my take on “unconscious racism” (well, except I wasn’t. But let’s just go with it)

A lengthy response to my argument against the “hidden mind” by this person. Here’s the gist: All Vedantam is really saying is that there is such a thing as an Amity/Enmity Complex, that it can manifest itself as racism, and that, if we are to control such socially destructive behavior, it would behoove us to understand what causes it. Fifty years ago, he would have been loudly denounced as a