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SUBJECT INDEX
[New Category—Morality—added 4/28/13]

• American Culture
• The Auto Industry
• Barack and Michelle Obama
• The Computer Industry
• The Constitution
• The Economy
• Energy Policy
• Faith and Public Policy
• Foreign Affairs
•   International Trade
•   Other General Topics
•   Afghanistan and Pakistan
•   Arabian/Islamic Liberation
•   Bush Administration
•   China
•   Diplomacy
•   The European Union
•   Iran
•   Iraq
•   Israel
•   Libya
•   North Korea
•   Al Qaeda
•   Russia
• Gender and Sexism
• Globalization
• Health Care
• The Media and Their Performance
• The Military and Intelligence
• Morality
• Politics
•   2013
•   2012
•   2011
•   2010
•   2009
•   2008
•   2007
•   2006
•   2005
•   2004
•   2003 or before
• Race and Racism
• Texas

American Culture (See also Gender and Sexism, Race and Racism, Texas)

• Abortion
• Acting Like Adults
• A Dozen Reasons for House Members to Vote for Health-Insurance Reform
• AIG Executives’ Protection Racket
• The Alpha Tribe
• An American Allegory
• An American Soap Opera
• America’s Two Crises [Default and Murdoch]
• And you thought government was bad!
• Arab Liberation: Which Side Are We On?
• The Banality of Evil
• The Bancrofts’ Big Decision
• Bankers’ Chutzpah
• Best is Best
• Big Tobacco’s Just Deserts
• Bitter
• Bonus Lessons
• Bossism and Racism by the Numbers
• Breaking Bankers’ Death Grip on Our Global Economy
• Bye, Bye American Media, or Why I’m Dropping the New York Times
• Bye, Bye Boomers
• Campaign Math 101
• Can Bloomberg.com succeed the Wall Street Journal Now That It’s Dead?
• Can Europe Help Save Us?
• Can Markets Be Wrong?
• Cell-Phone Risk
• Changing America, Starting with Dixie
• Cheap Culture
• Chief Justice Roberts on “Obamacare”
• Childish Things
• China Rising II: The Hantsu Hypothesis
• A Clean, Fair and Honest Campaign
• Clintonian Heresy
• Compare Character
• Coming Unglued [Our Gaming Financial Sector]
• “Computers” and Other Anachronisms, or Whither Apple and China?
• Coussoule and Boehner, A Comparison
• A Critical Year End
• The Curious Case of Tom Daschle
• Cutting Our New President Some Slack
• “Daddy! Mommy! I want more oil!”
• Darfur
• A Day to Cherish
• Decentralization
• “The Defiant Ones”
• Democrats for McCain?
• Denying Reality, or Why the GOP’s Internal Reform Will Take Some Time
• The Die is Cast [on Mission to Kill Bin Laden]
• The Dilbert Effect, or Don’t Knock Hope
• Don’t [to American Voters in 2012 Elections]
• Dystopia
• Ecclesiastes and the EU
• Eleven Questions for All Presidential Candidates
• The End of an Era
• Father Knows Best, Or Does He? [re Stalin and Dubya]
• Faux Democracy
• Fear and Age [as Causes of the GOP’s Decline]
• Fear, Delusion and Their Antidote
• Fear Itself
• The Fighter Pilot
• Follow the Light!
• The Forgetful Inventor, Whom Others Are Passing By
• Fork ‘em, Mr. President!
• A Forty Year Dry Spell
• France and Germany versus the [American] Psychopaths
• Frat Boy II
• Four Ayatollahs and a Decider [The Supreme Court and “Obamacare”]
• Futurophobia
• Gang Rule, or Government by Extortion
• The Gang’s New Capo
• George Washington and Vladimir Putin
• Germany and America II: Could it Happen Here?
• Good Media: Where to Go for Real News
• Gossip and Policy
• Gripping Political Theater [in Debt-Default Endgame]
• Grover Norquist’s World: Indentured Servitude for Youth
• China Rising II: The Hantsu Hypothesis
• He Did His Homework
• High Noon on PBS [Lehrer Interviews McConnell]
• Holocaust Memorial Day
• How Karl Rove and Frank Luntz Destroyed the Republican Party
• How Republican Ideology Destroyed America’s Competitiveness
  and Sapped Her Strength
• How Rick Santelli Killed the Housing Rescue
• Ideological Mirror Images and Olympic Lessons
• Immigrants, Alpha Males, and America’s Three Cultures
• An Immodest Proposal, or Flying 2015
• Inaccurate
• Independence Day
• In Myths and Rumors Credimus
• Infrastructure, Industrial Policy, and Economic Recovery
• “Intelligent Design” and Engineering: A Tale of Orwellian Word Theft
• Is Facebook Doing Us In?
• Is Hillary Dangerous?
• Islamophobia: Three Lies
• It’s the Bystanders, Stupid!
• “I’ve Got Mine, Jack!”: The American Recipe for Dystopia
• Joe Biden
• Joe Klein, Watching Fox, and the Civil War’s Final End
• Judge Sotomayor and “Identity Politics”
• Krugman the Authoritarian
• Krugman, Reason and Culture [and their Effects on National Default]
• Lack of Imagination I: Small Remotely Piloted Aircraft
• The Leader [USA] Falls
• Learning to Love Logic
• Lesson from Fort Hood
• Lessons of 9/11, Ten Years Later
• Let Them Go! The Case for Secession
• Levels of Paranoia and the “Scanner Revolt”
• Lightweights and Heavyweights
• Looking for God in a Godless World
• A Loser’s Confession
• Luffing Time
• Mad Money Men Mayhem
• The Manhattan Dragon and Sir Cyrus of Vance
• The Marathon Bombers: Alpha Males Lost in Modern Civilization?
• Mars, Venus and Presidential Politics
• Meritocracy Restored
• Michelle’s American Story
• Mirror of Tragedy
• Mortgages, Law and Culture, or Why Plato Still Matters
• A Multipolar World
• My Dozen Tweets
• My (Never-Given) Matriculation Speech
• “Neglecting the Base,” or the Meaning of “We”
• Nervous Nellies
• A New Dawn: Obama in Cairo
• The New Royalists (and the New Guillotines)
• A Noose for America’s Middle Class
• A Note on Campaign Financing
• Nothing Has Changed
• Obama and Evangelicals
• Obama and Romney: A Handy Comparison Chart
• Obama’s Sense of Perspective
• “Occupy Wall Street” Movement: Initial Information
• That Old Alpha Thing, or Why Obama Might Lose
• “Old Europe”
• An Open Appeal to Edwards Voters
• An Open Letter to Print Journalists
• Ordinary People Matter
• “Our gall is not like your gall.”
• Our Global Moral Crisis
• Our Republican Platform (Pledge to America)
• Our Still Dysfunctional Congress
• Our Ten Grave National Problems: How Long Have they Festered?
• Our Woebegone Banks
• Outrage! (The Shirley Sherrod Story)
• Party of Extremists
• Perseverance
• The Philadelphia “Debate”
• Prejudice and Pride
• The President’s Bow
• The Real Antichrists
• Reds on the Right
• Redundancy
• Resurrecting Securitization
• Revolt of the Experts
• Rick Wagoner and Our Culture of Incompetence
• Rotten Business
• Sarah and Sonia: A Post-Fourth Note
• Search-and-Seizure Heresy
• A Season for Workers?
• The “Second-Amendment Solution”
• The SEC’s Suit against Goldman, Sachs: What it Means
• Senator Clinton, Please Step Aside!
• A Sense of Perspective
• Seven Questions for Sarah Palin Fans
• The Sizzle and the Steak
• Soothing: The Last Debate
• Stalin in America? [comparing Boehner]
• State of the Union [2011]
• Steve Jobs, An American Original, R.I.P.
• Succession and Selection of Leaders [in China and the US]
• A Super Special Prosecutor
• Tax Cuts for the Rich and DADT: Two Litmus Tests
• The “Texas Question” Answered
• Thanksgiving: A Good Day to “Come Out”
• Thanksgiving Message
• Thanksgiving Message 2008
• Thanksgiving Message 2012: A Baker’s Dozen Reasons to be Thankful
• “That Vision Thing”
• Think!—A Voter’s Guide for 2010
• Thinking Outside the Box: A Zero Capital-Gains Tax
• A Time of Reverence and Awe
• Three Big Health-Care Lies
• Tired of Lies
• Tough
• Trade
• The Traps Our Founders Foresaw (that We Fell In)
• Twenty Reasons to Vote Democratic in 2008
• Two Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Save America
• Universal Economic Education: Wising Up
• Us Against Them
• Van Jones
• Virtue
• Vital Numbers
• Watching the Sun Set [on the American Century]
• Whence Morality?
• Why the “Defense of Marriage” Act is Inhuman, not Just Inhumane
• Why Hillary is Dangerous II: Pandering
• Why I Gave Obama Another $2,300
• Why Mitt Lost
• Working Together
• Yes, We Did!
• Young People, Save Us (and Yourselves)!
• You’ve Got to Know Something
• Zucotti Park, or the Power of Numbers

The Auto Industry

• Update (11/20/10 & 1/06/11)—Electric Cars: Volt, Leaf or Focus?
• Breaking Up is Easy To Do
• California’s EPA Waiver
• Comparative Energy Costs of Driving: Cents per Mile
• Energy Policy: Good Batteries and How to Get Them
• The First Big Mistake
• Getting Smart
• How Electric Cars Can Beat their Gasoline and Natural-Gas Rivals
• Lack of Imagination II: Making the Volt Succeed
• Lack of Imagination III: Selling Engineering, for a Change
• A Loser’s Confession
• Luffing Time
• Missing the Point, Again and Again [Energy Infrastructure]
• Natural Gas: the Best Transitional Fuel
• A New Environmental Vision
• Obama’s Energy Mistake
• Obama’s Velvet Glove
• Our Global Paradigm Shift
• Race for the Future
• Recovery by the Numbers
• Rick Wagoner and Our Culture of Incompetence
• Rotten Business
• Rube Goldberg Machines on Our Streets
• Saving the Big Three [Car Makers]
• Saving the Big Three II: Accountability
• A Season for Workers?
• Signs of a Sick Democracy: the First New Hampshire “Debate”
• Solar Car Payback
• A Solution to Our Energy Crisis: The Chevy Volt
• Thank You, Iowa, and Hello Huntsman
• Three Big Health-Care Lies
• U.S. Industrial Policy: “Cash for Clunkers” and Cap & Trade
• Wall Street Journal Buys Into Electric Cars
• Who Should Drive Electric Cars
• Why Cars and Trucks Should Switch to Natural Gas Now
• Why I’ll Buy a Volt
• Why I’ll Buy a Volt II
• Working Quietly and Well

Barack and Michelle Obama [For topical matters relating to the campaign, see Politics.]

• Acting Like Adults
• Arrogance and Humility
• A Baker’s Dozen Reasons Why Obama is Best
• Barack Obama and Colin Powell
• Barack Obama’s Good Weekend and Sterling Endorsements
• Barack Obama's "Inexperience"
• Can Obama Fight?
• California’s EPA Waiver
• The “Chutzpah” Campaign and How to Beat It
• Clinton and Obama: A Handy Comparison Chart
• Compare Character
• Comparing Obama: Three Essential Readings
• Cool
• Cutting Our New President Some Slack
• A Day to Cherish
• Facts for Last-Minute Deciders
• The First Big Mistake
• “Fiscal Cliff” or Briar Patch?
• Fork ‘em, Mr. President!
• A Forty Year Dry Spell
• Further Signs of Greatness
• GDP for Obama
• GDP for Obama II, and Who’s Really a “Taker”
• In Bed with Boehner [On Summers and Geithner]
• In Myths and Rumors Credimus
• Inaccurate
• Is the President a Bleeding Heart?
• It’s the Bystanders, Stupid!
• Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball
• Leading is Taking People Where they Wouldn’t Otherwise Go
• Learning to Love Logic
• Lightweights and Heavyweights
• Little Things Mean a Lot [Obama’s First News Conference]
• McCain and Obama: A Handy Comparison Chart
• Meritocracy Restored
• “The Messiah’s” Burden
• Method in His Madness
• Michelle’s American Story
• A New Dawn: Obama in Cairo
• No-Bluff Obama
• Obama and Evangelicals
• Obama and Romney: A Handy Comparison Chart
• An Obama Reading List
• Obama’s Energy Mistake
• Obama's Health-Care Plan [May 2007]
• Obama’s Meritocracy
• Obama’s Sense of Perspective
• Obama’s Speech on Race
• Obama’s Strategic Vision
• Obama’s Terrorism Speech
• Obama's Touch of Greatness
• Obama’s Velvet Glove
• One of Us
• An Open Letter to the President [re Tax Cuts]
• Our Still Dysfunctional Congress
• Outrage! (The Shirley Sherrod Story)
• Perseverance
• The President’s Bow
• The President’s OAS Diplomacy
• The President’s Second Inaugural
• Revolt of the Experts
• A Sense of Perspective
• The Sizzle and the Steak
• Snap!
• The Summers/Geithner Team: Obama’s McNamara or Rumsfeld?
• Tax Cuts for the Rich: A Disastrous Blunder
• Ten Reasons to Back Barack
• Think People, Not Ideas
• Tough
• Three Gates
• War Against War
• What to Do About Obama's Brains
• Who Can Keep Us Safe?
• Working Quietly and Well
• Why I Gave Obama Another $2,300
• Why Judgment Matters
• Yes, He Can! [Obama, debate]

The Computer Industry

• Coming Unglued [Our Gaming Financial Sector]
• “Computers” and Other Anachronisms, or Whither Apple and China?
• DID GOOGLE GET PHISHED?
• Iran’s Second Revolution: the First Cyber War
• Is Tim Cook a Disciple of Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?
• Monopolia Delenda Est
• “Our gall is not like your gall.”
• Redundancy
• Steve Jobs, An American Original, R.I.P.
• The Telephone Queue (humor)

The Constitution

• Changing America, Starting with Dixie
• Chief Justice Roberts on “Obamacare”
• Copyright, Globalization, and the New Roberts Court
• Cutting Our New President Some Slack
• Dystopia
• Four Ayatollahs and a Decider [The Supreme Court and “Obamacare”]
• Four Myths that Need Debunking
• Holder’s Decision
• Joe Klein, Watching Fox, and the Civil War’s Final End
• Judge Sotomayor and “Identity Politics”
• The Manhattan Dragon and Sir Cyrus of Vance
• A Sense of Perspective
• A Necessary Heresy
• A Noose for America’s Middle Class
• Object Lessons for Foreign Wars
• One-Man Rule
• The President’s Recess Appointments
• A Super Special Prosecutor
• The President's Unauthorized, Secret Spying: A Constitutional Crisis
• Search-and-Seizure Heresy
• The “Second-Amendment Solution”
• A Sense of Perspective
• Succession and Selection of Leaders [in China and the US]
• The Traps Our Founders Foresaw (that We Fell In)
• Two Sentences that Could Save Our Republic
• Vice President Huntsman?

The Economy

• Update (11/20/10 & 1/06/11)—Electric Cars: Volt, Leaf or Focus?
• AIG Executives’ Protection Racket
• Al Gore’s Energy Challenge
• America is Back!
• An American Allegory
• An American Soap Opera
• America’s Two Crises [Default and Murdoch]
• And you thought government was bad!
• Anti-Deficiency Laws and our Mortgage Crisis
• Are All Bankers Psychopaths?
• Assertions of a Speculative Bubble [in Oil Prices]
• The Bailout Act, Amended
• Bankers
• Bankers’ Chutzpah
• Bonus Lessons
• Bossism and Racism by the Numbers
• Breaking Bankers’ Death Grip on Our Global Economy
• Breaking Up is Easy To Do
• Can Europe Help Save Us?
• Can Markets Be Wrong?
• The Candidates’ Energy Plans I
• Can the New York Times be Saved?
• Capitalism Isn’t Broken; Wall Street Is
• Capitalism on Trial [in Libya]
• The Casinos Won, so Buckle Your Seat Belts
• Cell-Phone Risk
• Cheap Culture
• China Rising III: America and China in Crisis
• Coal: Faust’s Fate Come to Life
• Coming Unglued [Our Gaming Financial Sector]
• Commodities Today: How to Make a Bad Situation Much, Much Worse
• “Computers” and Other Anachronisms, or Whither Apple and China?
• Confessions of a Cockeyed Optimist
• Consequences [of Going over the so-called “Fiscal Cliff”]
• Conservation of Money, or Why the Fed Should Manage Derivatives
• Coussoule and Boehner, A Comparison
• Creative Destruction
• A Critical Year End
• “Daddy! Mommy! I want more oil!”
• The Deal [Avoiding Debt-Default, 2011]
• Decentralization
• The Decline of Competence in America
• To Default, or Not to Default: The Political Angle
• “The Defiant Ones”
• Dexia = AIG Redux, or Einstein’s Definition of Insanity
• The Dilbert Effect, or Don’t Knock Hope
• A Double Dip?
• The Double-Dip Scenario
• Do We Look Stupid?
• Dystopia
• The Effect of the Civil War in Libya [on Oil Prices]
• Energy Economics
• Europe’s New Bailout Plan
• Excising our Metastatic Cancer of Finance: Temporary Market-Based Nationalization
• Facts for Last-Minute Deciders
• Fear, Delusion and Their Antidote
• Fear Itself
• The First 200 Days: Fourteen Priorities
• The First Big Mistake
• “Fiscal Cliff” or Briar Patch?
• Five Economic Lies
• Flirting with the Devil [and a US Default]
• Foreign Affairs: They Matter Much More Than You Think
• The Forgetful Inventor, Whom Others Are Passing By
• Four Dollars a Gallon by Next Summer
• France and Germany versus the [American] Psychopaths
• The Future of Nuclear Power
• Gang Rule, or Government by Extortion
• GDP for Obama
• GDP for Obama II, and Who’s Really a “Taker”
• Geithner’s Outline Gets “D” for Accountability
• Germany and America I
• Germany and America II: Could it Happen Here?
• Getting Smart
• The Good News from Sendai and Tokyo
• The GOP’s Five Big Lies
• Gripping Political Theater [in Debt-Default Endgame]
• Grover Norquist’s World: Indentured Servitude for Youth
• Health-Insurance Basics
• Health Insurance That Isn’t
• Hillary-ous Economics
• How the Dow’s Drop May Save Us
• How to Make Solar Power Seem Expensive When it Isn’t
• How Near-Term Energy Policy Could Make or Break Us
• How Republican Ideology Destroyed America’s Competitiveness
  and Sapped Her Strength
• How Rick Santelli Killed the Housing Rescue
• Ideological Mirror Images and Olympic Lessons
• Immigrants, Alpha Males, and America’s Three Cultures
• An Immodest Proposal, or Flying 2015
• In Bed with Boehner [On Summers and Geithner]
• Infrastructure, Industrial Policy, and Economic Recovery
• Innumeracy, Economics and the Great Accommodation
• “Intelligent Design” and Engineering: A Tale of Orwellian Word Theft
• “I’ve Got Mine, Jack!”: The American Recipe for Dystopia
• Is Facebook Doing Us In?
• John Boehner
• Jon Huntsman: A Good Man Ignored
• Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball
• Keystone: An Engineering and Economic Atrocity
• Krugman, Reason and Culture [and their Effects on National Default]
• Krugman Redux
• Lack of Imagination II: Making the Volt Succeed
• Lack of Imagination III: Selling Engineering, for a Change
• Lessons of the Great BP Oil Spill
• Mad Money Men Mayhem
• Market Adaptation to Climate Imperatives
• Midterm Aftermath: Diagnosis and Prognosis
• Mirror of Tragedy
• Mitch’s Desperate Gambit [to Prevent Default]
• Motivation and the “Fiscal Cliff”
• A Multipolar World
• Luffing Time
• McCain and Obama: A Handy Comparison Chart
• Missing the Point, Again and Again [Energy Infrastructure]
• Mortgages, Law and Culture, or Why Plato Still Matters
• Natural Gas: the Best Transitional Fuel
• Nervous Nellies
• The New Royalists (and the New Guillotines)
• Not a “Moon Shot”—Not Even Close
• Obama’s and Clinton’s Health-Care Plans
• Obama’s Blueprint for Tomorrow
• Obama’s Energy Mistake
• Obama's Health-Care Plan
• Obama’s Strategic Vision
• Obama’s Velvet Glove
• “Occupy Wall Street” Movement: Initial Information
• Only Shock Therapy Will Do
• An Open Letter to the President [re Tax Cuts]
• An Opportunity for Democrats
• “Our gall is not like your gall.”
• Our Global Paradigm Shift
• Our New Long, Twilight Struggle
• Our Republican Platform (Pledge to America)
• Our Ten Grave National Problems: How Long Have they Festered?
• Our Woebegone Banks
• Paul Krugman’s Nobel Prize
• Paul Ryan as Sidekick: What It Means
• Paulson’s Latest Egg
• The Physics-Economics of Solar Panels
• Possible International “Trade” in Wind and Solar Power
• The President’s Speech
• The Proper Response [to Near-Shutdown of Government] is Rage
• Putting a Price on Obstructionism
• Race for the Future
• Real Incentives for Private Job Creation
• Real Solar Energy Cost Parameters
• A Real Solution to our Mortgage Crisis
• Recovery by the Numbers
• Reds on the Right
• The “Rescue” Act: First Impressions
• Response to CJCalgirl [on Corporations and Corruption]
• Resurrecting Securitization
• Revolt of the Experts
• Rick Wagoner and Our Culture of Incompetence
• The Right Kind of Decoupling
• Rotten Business
• Rube Goldberg Machines on Our Streets
• Saving the Big Three [Car Makers]
• Saving the Big Three II: Accountability
• A Season for Workers?
• The SEC’s Suit against Goldman, Sachs: What it Means
• A Second Great Depression
• Selling Below Cost
• Should Geitner Go?
• Shock Therapy Now
• Soothing: The Last Debate
• Snap!
• Stalin in America? [comparing Boehner]
• State of the Union [2011]
• The Summers/Geithner Team: Obama’s McNamara or Rumsfeld?
• Survivor’s Guilt and What to Do about It
• Tax Cuts for the Rich: A Disastrous Blunder
• Tax Cuts for the Rich and DADT: Two Litmus Tests
• Teaching the Retarded [about the GOP's Real Goals]
• Thank You, Iowa, and Hello Huntsman
• Thinking Outside the Box: A Zero Capital-Gains Tax
• Time to Twist Arms
• Three Big Health-Care Lies
• Trade
• Trade, Economics and Ancient Rome
• Trade Policy for One: Saying “No” to Modern Mercantilism
• Twelve Republican Stupidities [in Debt-Reduction Extortion]
• Two Banking Myths
• Underestimating the Task and the President (or Krugman At It Again)
• Universal Economic Education: Wising Up
• Update on Oil and Gasoline Price Projections
• U.S. Industrial Policy: “Cash for Clunkers” and Cap & Trade
• Us Against Them
• Versailles or the Marshall Plan: China’s Choice
• Vital Numbers
• Wall Street Journal Buys Into Electric Cars
• Watching the Sun Set [on the American Century]
• Whither the Renminbi? Two Neglected Factors
• Why 2008 Was Not 1929 Redux
• Why China Wants Us to Know it is Spying
• Why Germany’s Bet on Renewables Will Win Big
• Why McCain’s Foreclosure “Rescue” Won’t Work, and What Will
• Why the New $800 Billion Bailout is a Non-Starter
• Why Obama Should Win (and Why I’m Donating Again)
• Why Our Pentagon Must Slim Down
• Young People, Please Save Us (and Yourselves) Again!
• Zucotti Park, or the Power of Numbers

Energy Policy

• New Energy Series [and Mini-Index to Past Posts, 2/25/12]
• Addendum on Energy Independence
• Al Gore’s Energy Challenge
• Assertions of a Speculative Bubble [in Oil Prices]
• The Big Lie about Wind and Solar Power
• California’s EPA Waiver
• The Candidates’ Energy Plans I
• Capitalism on Trial [in Libya]
• Coal: Faust’s Fate Come to Life
• Coal versus Nuclear Power: Do You Like to Breathe?
• Comparative Energy Costs of Driving: Cents per Mile
• Coussoule and Boehner, A Comparison
• A Critical Year End
• “Daddy! Mommy! I want more oil!”
• The Dangerous Illusion of “Clean Coal”
• Early Dog Days
• Eden or the Fall: for Real This time
• The Effect of the Civil War in Libya [on Oil Prices]
• Energy Economics
• Energy Independence: The Proper Role of Coal
• Energy Policy: Good Batteries and How to Get Them
• Energy Policy: A Matter of Planning
• Facts for Last-Minute Deciders
• The First 200 Days: Fourteen Priorities
• The First Big Mistake
• The Forgetful Inventor, Whom Others Are Passing By
• Fork ‘em, Mr. President!
• Four Dollars a Gallon by Next Summer
• The Future of Nuclear Power
• The Future of Nuclear Power after Fukushima
• Geography is Destiny
• Graphical Extrapolation of Gasoline Prices: Six or Seven Dollars a Gallon in Ten Years
• How to Make Solar Power Seem Expensive When it Isn’t
• How Electric Cars Can Beat their Gasoline and Natural-Gas Rivals
• How Near-Term Energy Policy Could Make or Break Us
• Infrastructure, Industrial Policy, and Economic Recovery
• Innumeracy, Economics and the Great Accommodation
• Japan’s Nuclear Disaster: Reason for Hope
• John Boehner
• Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball
• Keystone: An Engineering and Economic Atrocity
• Lack of Imagination II: Making the Volt Succeed
• Lack of Imagination III: Selling Engineering, for a Change
• Lessons of the Great BP Oil Spill
• Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors
• A Loser’s Confession
• Market Adaptation to Climate Imperatives
• McCain and Obama: A Handy Comparison Chart
• Missing the Point, Again and Again [Energy Infrastructure]
• Mr. Reid, Back Down!
• Natural Gas: the Best Transitional Fuel
• Nervous Nellies
• A New Environmental Vision
• Not a “Moon Shot”—Not Even Close
• Nuclear Corruption
• Nuclear-Plant Terrorism: A Solvable Problem
• Obama’s Energy Mistake
• Obama’s Strategic Vision
• Obama’s Velvet Glove
• An Open Letter to Republicans in Congress
• Our Banks, Our Media, Oil and War
• Our Ten Grave National Problems: How Long Have they Festered?
• The Physics-Economics of Solar Panels
• Positive Global-Warming Feedback
• Possible International “Trade” in Wind and Solar Power
• Putting a Price on Obstructionism
• Race for the Future
• Real Solar Energy Cost Parameters
• Reds on the Right
• Redundancy
• Response to CJCalgirl
• Selling Below Cost
• Shale or “Fracked” Gas: An Interim Solution?
• Solar Car Payback
• A Solution to Our Energy Crisis: The Chevy Volt
• State of the Union [2011]
• Tax Cuts for the Rich: A Disastrous Blunder
• Ten Encouraging Facts [About Non-Carbon Energy]
• Update on Oil and Gasoline Price Projections
• Vital Numbers
• Vive Hillary and Vive La France! [Introduction]
• Wall Street Journal Buys Into Electric Cars
• “When Donkeys Fly": Steven Chu’s Energy Plans
• Who Should Drive Electric Cars
• Why Are We Still in Iraq?
• Why Cars and Trucks Should Switch to Natural Gas Now
• Why Germany’s Bet on Renewables Will Win Big
• Why I’ll Buy a Volt
• Why I’ll Buy a Volt II
• Why Obama Should Win (and Why I’m Donating Again)

Faith and Public Policy

• Abortion
• Bans on Gay Marriage: A Question of Values
• Eden or the Fall: for Real This time
• Germany and America III: Following Jesus’ Advice
• The Indispensable Man
• “Intelligent Design” and Engineering: A Tale of Orwellian Word Theft
• Looking for God in a Godless World
• A New Dawn: Obama in Cairo
• Obama and Evangelicals
• Our Global Moral Crisis
• The Real Antichrists
• A Tale of Two Cities
• A Time of Reverence and Awe
• True Believers and the
  Power of Nations
• Why the “Defense of Marriage” Act is Inhuman, not Just Inhumane

Foreign Affairs

  International Trade

• How Republican Ideology Destroyed America’s Competitiveness and Sapped Her Strength
• Our Global Paradigm Shift
• Positive Global-Warming Feedback
• Saving the Big Three [Car Makers]
• Selling Below Cost
• Trade
• Trade, Economics and Ancient Rome
• Trade Policy for One: Saying “No” to Modern Mercantilism

  Other General Topics

• America is Back!
• Of Apes and Men
• The Banality of Evil
• The Case for Nuclear Proliferation
• Childish Things
• Confessions of a Cockeyed Optimist
• Darfur
• Ecclesiastes and the EU
• Foreign Affairs: They Matter Much More Than You Think
• The Good News from Sendai and Tokyo
• Hillary Clinton: A Bad Idea Then, a Bad Idea Now
• Huntsman at State?
• In Myths and Rumors Credimus
• Individual Responsibility: the Salvation of our Species?
• Iran’s Second Revolution: the First Cyber War
• Islamophobia: Three Lies
• John McCain (and Arizona) at the Crossroads
• The Leader [USA] Falls
• Lessons from "Honor" Killings in Germany
• Mad Money Men Mayhem
• McCain and Obama: A Handy Comparison Chart
• A Multipolar World
• Naming (and Ending) Our Endless Wars
• A New Dawn: Obama in Cairo
• A New Environmental Vision
• No-Bluff Obama
• Obama’s Meritocracy
• Our Global Moral Crisis
• Our Modern Ninjas and Their Role in Human History
• Positive Global-Warming Feedback
• Possible International “Trade” in Wind and Solar Power
• The President’s OAS Diplomacy
• Sarah Palin II: The Demise of American Democracy?
• Susan Rice at State
• Trade
• What Politicians Do When Reality Intervenes
• Why 2008 Was Not 1929 Redux
• Why Judgment Matters
• Why Hillary is Dangerous I: Foreign and Military Policy
• The Transcendent Need for Real Talent at State
• War Against War
• Why Do We Need Armed Forces?

  Afghanistan and Pakistan

• Afghanistan
• Apocalypticism, or Dominoes Redux
• Bin Laden Dead
• Common Sense About Pakistan
• The Die is Cast [on Mission to Kill Bin Laden]
• Ending the Not-War War
• Five Conditions for Taliban Rule
• Independence Day
• In Praise of Gates
• Islamophobia: Three Lies
• Just War
• Military Secrecy: Still Useful after All These Years
• Naming (and Ending) Our Endless Wars
• Object Lessons for Foreign Wars
• Pakistan: A New Policy
• [Our Errors in Pakistan]
• Pakistan
• Pakistan’s Potential
• President Obama’s War Speech
• Response to David Brooks’ Column of 9/25/09 [on Afghanistan]
• Timing is Everything [in Afghanistan]
• A Turning in Waziristan

  Arabian/Islamic Liberation (See also Libya)

• Arab Liberation: Another Cold War Ending?
• Arab Liberation: Which Side Are We On?
• The Arab Spring, Ten Months In
• Bin Laden Dead
• Capitalism on Trial [in Libya]
• The Die is Cast [on Mission to Kill Bin Laden]
• Egypt’s Talks with Hamas and Iran
• Heroism in Libya [Coda]
• Futurophobia
• Genocide in Arabia
• Hard Bargaining in Egypt
• Help Wanted: Leader for Libya
• Holocaust Memorial Day
• I Am Egyptian
• Individual Responsibility: the Salvation of our Species?
• Is Libya Lost?
• Lack of Imagination IV: Technologies of Freedom
• Learning to Trust Libya’s Rebels
• Libya for the Libyans
• The Libya Kerfluffle [in the 2012 campaign]
• Mohamed Mursi, Elected President of Egypt
• Ordinary People Matter
• Runnymede in Tripoli
• Should Crazy People Have Nuclear Weapons?
• Syria
• Tom Friedman’s Western Hubris
• What If We Are Wrong [about Arabs’ and Muslims’ Capacity for Self-Government]?
• Vive Hillary and Vive La France!
• Why An American Jew Supports Palestinian Statehood

  Bush Administration

• 9/11 After Seven
• The Banality of Evil
• Benching the Star Quarterback
• The Bolton Nomination
• Law and Justice
• Lieutenant Ehren Watada
• Response to David Brooks’ Column of 9/25/09 [on Afghanistan]
• The Rumsfeld Memo
• Smarter People, Better Results
• The Transcendent Need for Real Talent at State

  China

• China Rising I
• China Rising II: The Hantsu Hypothesis
• China Rising III: America and China in Crisis
• “Computers” and Other Anachronisms, or Whither Apple and China?
• Nuclear Corruption
• Only Shock Therapy Will Do
• Our New Long, Twilight Struggle
• Survivor’s Guilt and What to Do about It
• Trade Policy for One: Saying “No” to Modern Mercantilism
• Two Gathering Storms
• Versailles or the Marshall Plan: China’s Choice
• Whither the Renminbi? Two Neglected Factors
• Why China Wants Us to Know it is Spying

  Diplomacy

• Arrogance and Humility
• Don’t be Fooled by Name Dropping
• The Great Debate
• Hillary Clinton’s First Big Test [in Libya]
• Lack of Imagination IV: Technologies of Freedom
• Naming (and Ending) Our Endless Wars
• A New Dawn: Obama in Cairo
• Our Modern Ninjas and Their Role in Human History
• Pakistan
• President Obama’s War Speech
• Stiff-Necked Diplomacy
• What’s At Stake In Iran

  The European Union

• Can Europe Help Save Us?
• The Casinos Won, so Buckle Your Seat Belts
• Dexia = AIG Redux, or Einstein’s Definition of Insanity
• Ecclesiastes and the EU
• Short Subject: Europe Rising
• Europe’s New Bailout Plan
• Germany and America I
• Germany and America III: Following Jesus’ Advice
• The New Royalists (and the New Guillotines)
• “Old Europe”
• Russia and NATO
• A Second Great Depression
• Us Against Them
• Why Germany’s Bet on Renewables Will Win Big

  Iran

• Ahmadinejad Speaks?
• Avoiding World War III
• Bin Laden Dead
• Breaking the Nuclear Taboo: Another Risk of Iran Going Nuclear
• The Case for Nuclear Proliferation
• Common Sense and Iran
• The Die is Cast [on Mission to Kill Bin Laden]
• Iran Policy
• Iran: the Real Paper Tiger
• Iran's Christmas Present and the Future
• Iran’s Second Revolution: the First Cyber War
• Iran: What’s Next and How We Can Help [6/19/2009]
• Kim's Gambit and Iran
• A Maginot Line for Missiles
• Obama on Iran: The Adult in the Room
• Our Banks, Our Media, Oil and War
• Persia’s Bush
• Should Crazy People Have Nuclear Weapons?
• A Time of Reverence and Awe
• Two Gathering Storms
• What Is Bibi Up To?
• What’s At Stake In Iran

  Iraq

• After the Iraqi Elections: Our Choice Now
• The Arab Spring, Ten Months In
• A Chance for Success in Baghdad?
• Cut and Stay: A Strategy for Iraq
• The Indispensable Man [Al Sistani]
• Iraq and November [2008]
• Iraq and Our Elections
• Iraqi Provincial Elections: A Game Changer
• Iraq’s Future
• Iraq's Last Chance
• Is Iraq Irretrievably Lost?
• Killed for a Photo Op
• Lieutenant Ehren Watada
• A Mini Marshall Plan for Shiite Iraq
• More on Iraq’s Future
• Naming (and Ending) Our Endless Wars
• Object Lessons for Foreign Wars
• Our Second False Premise
• Our War in the Shadows: Can we Succeed by Withdrawing?
• A Real Benchmark for Leaving Iraq
• Sahel or Partition: Take Your Pick
• A Salute to Senator Lugar
• Senator Clinton's Plan
• Senator Clinton's Political Epitaph
• The Turning Point?
• Who Bombed the Golden Dome?
• Why Are We Still in Iraq?
• Why Hawks Should Cheer the Antiwar Left
• Why "We" Just Might Win

  Israel

• Avoiding World War III
• Bin Laden Dead
• Carter and Hamas
• The Case for Nuclear Proliferation
• The Die is Cast [on Mission to Kill Bin Laden]
• Facing Reality [re Hamas]
• “I Don’t Want to Think About It!”
• A New Dawn: Obama in Cairo
• Obama on Iran: The Adult in the Room
• Should Crazy People Have Nuclear Weapons?
• Two Gathering Storms
• What Is Bibi Up To?
• Why An American Jew Supports Palestinian Statehood

  Libya

• Capitalism on Trial [in Libya]
• The Effect of the Civil War in Libya [on Oil Prices]
• Heroism in Libya [Coda]
• Hillary Clinton’s First Big Test
• Learning to Trust Libya’s Rebels
• Picking a New Leader for Libya
• Vive Hillary and Vive La France!

  North Korea

• Kim's Gambit and Iran
• The Korean Philosopher’s Dilemma
• North Korea: A Test of Emotional Intelligence
• Two Generations of Imbecile-Dictators Are Enough

  Al Qaeda

• The Arab Spring, Ten Months In
• 47 Million Uninsured: A National-Security Risk
• Bin Laden Dead
• The Case for Nuclear Proliferation
• Childish Things
• Clintonian Heresy
• The Die is Cast [on Mission to Kill Bin Laden]
• Facts for Last-Minute Deciders
• Five Conditions for Taliban Rule
• Holder’s Decision
• Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball
• Lessons of 9/11, Ten Years Later
• Naming (and Ending) Our Endless Wars
• Obama’s Strategic Vision
• Obama’s Terrorism Speech
• Our Modern Ninjas and Their Role in Human History
• Taking Our Worst Enemy Seriously
• Who Can Keep Us Safe?
• Plague Bioterrorism: A Sui-Genocide Bomb

  Russia

• Crunch Time in the Caucasus
• Ecclesiastes and the EU
• Father Knows Best, Or Does He? [re Stalin and Dubya]
• Geography is Destiny [re Georgia]
• George Washington and Vladimir Putin
• Ideological Mirror Images and Olympic Lessons
• Levels of Paranoia and the “Scanner Revolt”
• Mirror of Tragedy
• Our New Long, Twilight Struggle
• Putin’s Dangerous Game
• Putin, Zubkov, and Their Lessons for Us
• Reds on the Right
• Russia and NATO
• Stalin in America? [comparing Boehner]

Gender and Sexism

• All Hail the Speaker!
• The Alpha Tribe
• Bossism and Racism by the Numbers
• Gleams, Boos and Historical Inevitability
• Identity Politics and the Powell Parable
• If Barack and Hillary Were White Males
• Judge Sotomayor and “Identity Politics”
• Just Like a Man
• Mars, Venus and Presidential Politics
• Michelle’s American Story
• Tax Cuts for the Rich and DADT: Two Litmus Tests

Globalization

• Of Apes and Men
• Confessions of a Cockeyed Optimist
• Copyright, Globalization, and the New Roberts Court
• Innumeracy, Economics and the Great Accommodation
• Positive Global-Warming Feedback
• Reply to an Indian Colleague
• Survivor’s Guilt and What to Do about It
• Trade
• Trade Policy for One: Saying “No” to Modern Mercantilism
• Versailles or the Marshall Plan: China’s Choice
• Whither the Renminbi? Two Neglected Factors

Health Care

• 47 Million Uninsured: A National-Security Risk
• Best Practices Panels
• Big Tobacco’s Just Deserts
• Bossism and Racism by the Numbers
• Cell-Phone Risk
• Chief Justice Roberts on “Obamacare”
• The Clinton-Krugman Health-Care Swindle
• Comparing Obama: Three Essential Readings
• A Dozen Reasons for House Members to Vote for Health-Insurance Reform
• Early Dog Days
• Facts for Last-Minute Deciders
• Faux Democracy
• Fear, Delusion and Their Antidote
• The First 200 Days: Fourteen Priorities
• Health-Insurance Basics
• Health-Insurance Quid Pro Quo
• Health-Insurance Reform on its Deathbed
• Health Insurance That Isn’t
• Hillary-ous Economics
• Krugman Redux
• Learning to Love Logic
• McCain and Obama: A Handy Comparison Chart
• Message for the Gang of Six and the Blue Dogs
• The Morning After [Health Insurance Reform]
• Mortgages, Law and Culture, or Why Plato Still Matters
• A Sense of Perspective
• Nervous Nellies
• Obama’s and Clinton’s Health-Care Plans
• Obama's Health-Care Plan [May 2007]
• Obama’s Meritocracy
• An Open Letter to Seniors on Health-Insurance Reform
• The Public Option
• Redundancy
• Recovery by the Numbers
• Rotten Business
• Three Big Health-Care Lies
• Time to Twist Arms
• To Do Or Not To Do
• What To Do About Joe

The Media and Their Performance

• America’s Two Crises [Default and Murdoch]
• And you thought government was bad!
• The Bancrofts’ Big Decision
• Our Banks, Our Media, Oil and War
• Barack Obama’s Good Weekend and Sterling Endorsements
• Bye, Bye American Media, or Why I’m Dropping the New York Times
• Can Bloomberg.com succeed the Wall Street Journal Now That It’s Dead?
• Can the New York Times be Saved?
• The Continuing Subversion of “Frontline”
• The Decline of Competence in America
• Eleven Questions for All Presidential Candidates
• Five Questions for Vetting Candidates
• Fork ‘em, Mr. President!
• Good Media: Where to Go for Real News
• Gossip and Policy
• Has PBS Turned to the Dark Side?
• He Did His Homework [Tim Russert]
• High Noon on PBS [Lehrer Interviews McConnell]
• “Intelligent Design” and Engineering: A Tale of Orwellian Word Theft
• Is Facebook Doing Us In?
• Jon Huntsman: A Good Man Ignored
• Coda: Journalistic Malpractice [re the “Fiscal Cliff”]
• Killed for a Photo Op
• Levels of Paranoia and the “Scanner Revolt”
• The Morning After [Health Insurance Reform]
• A Noose for America’s Middle Class
• The Obama “Referendum”
• An Open Letter to Print Journalists
• Our Ten Grave National Problems: How Long Have they Festered?
• Outrage! (The Shirley Sherrod Story)
• Paul Ryan as Sidekick: What It Means
• The Real Antichrists
• Redundancy
• Resurrecting Time
• Signs of a Sick Democracy: the First New Hampshire “Debate”
• Susan Rice at State
• Think People, Not Ideas
• Tired of Lies

The Military and Intelligence

• 47 Million Uninsured: A National-Security Risk
• 9/11 After Seven
• Afghanistan
• Of Apes and Men
• Apocalypticism, or Dominoes Redux
• Arab Liberation: Another Cold War Ending?
• Avoiding World War III
• Benching the Star Quarterback [Colin Powell]
• Bin Laden Dead
• Breaking the Nuclear Taboo: Another Risk of Iran Going Nuclear
• The Case for Nuclear Proliferation
• Childish Things
• Civilian Control of the Military: Oversight or Micromanagement?
• Colin Powell’s Endorsement [of President Obama]
• Common Sense about Pakistan
• Common Sense and Iran
• Confessions of a Cockeyed Optimist
• Cool
• Consequences [of Going over the so-called “Fiscal Cliff”]
• The Die is Cast [on Mission to Kill Bin Laden]
• Egypt’s Talks with Hamas and Iran
• Ending the Not-War War
• The First 200 Days: Fourteen Priorities
• Five Conditions for Taliban Rule
• Genocide in Arabia
• Getting Smart
• Holder’s Decision
• An Immodest Proposal, or Flying 2015
• In Praise of Gates
• Individual Responsibility: the Salvation of our Species?
• Intelligence Does Matter
• Iran Policy
• Just War
• Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball
• Killed for a Photo Op
• Kim's Gambit and Iran
• The Korean Philosopher’s Dilemma
• Lack of Imagination I: Small Remotely Piloted Aircraft
• Lack of Imagination IV: Technologies of Freedom
• The Leader [USA] Falls
• Lesson from Fort Hood
• Lessons of 9/11, Ten Years Later
• Levels of Paranoia and the “Scanner Revolt”
• Lieutenant Ehren Watada
• A Maginot Line for Missiles
• The Marathon Bombers: Alpha Males Lost in Modern Civilization?
• McCain and Obama: A Handy Comparison Chart
• Military Secrecy: Still Useful after All These Years
• Mitt’s War Risk
• North Korea: A Test of Emotional Intelligence
• Obama on Iran: The Adult in the Room
• Obama’s Strategic Vision
• Object Lessons for Foreign Wars
• One of Us
• Our Banks, Our Media, Oil and War
• Our Modern Ninjas and Their Role in Human History
• Our New Long, Twilight Struggle
• Our Ten Grave National Problems: How Long Have they Festered?
• Pakistan
• Pakistan: A New Policy
• President Obama’s War Speech
• Response to David Brooks’ Column of 9/25/09 [on Afghanistan]
• The Rumsfeld Memo
• Russia and NATO
• SecDef Gates Speaks Out [on Missile Defense]
• The “Second-Amendment Solution”
• Should Crazy People Have Nuclear Weapons?
• Smarter People, Better Results
• Syria
• Taking Our Worst Enemy Seriously
• Timing is Everything [in Afghanistan]
• Trade
• A Turning in Waziristan
• Two Generations of Imbecile-Dictators Are Enough
• War Against War
• What If We Are Wrong [about Arabs’ and Muslims’ Capacity for Self-Government]?
• Who Bombed the Golden Dome?
• Who Can Keep Us Safe?
• Why China Wants Us to Know it is Spying
• Why Do We Need Armed Forces?
• Why Judgment Matters
• Why Our Pentagon Must Slim Down

Politics
  2013

• Addendum on Margaret Thatcher, An Unlikely Alpha Male
• Of Apes and Men
• Breaking the Nuclear Taboo: Another Risk of Iran Going Nuclear
• The Continuing Subversion of “Frontline”
• Copyright, Globalization, and the New Roberts Court
• Fear and Age [as Causes of the GOP’s Decline]
• How Karl Rove and Frank Luntz Destroyed the Republican Party
• John McCain (and Arizona) at the Crossroads
• Coda: Journalistic Malpractice [re the “Fiscal Cliff”]
• Let Them Go! The Case for Secession
• The Marathon Bombers: Alpha Males Lost in Modern Civilization?
• Motivation and the “Fiscal Cliff”
• North Korea: A Test of Emotional Intelligence
• Our Global Moral Crisis
• The Physics-Economics of Solar Panels
• Positive Global-Warming Feedback
• The President’s Second Inaugural
• Real Incentives for Private Job Creation
• Why the “Defense of Marriage” Act is Inhuman, not Just Inhumane
• Why Our Pentagon Must Slim Down

  2012

• A Dozen Reasons to Reject Mitt
• The Big Lie about Wind and Solar Power
• Breaking Bankers’ Death Grip on Our Global Economy
• Can Obama Fight?
• Chief Justice Roberts on “Obamacare”
• The “Chutzpah” Campaign and How to Beat It
• Coal: Faust’s Fate Come to Life
• Colin Powell’s Endorsement [of President Obama]
• Consequences [of Going over the so-called “Fiscal Cliff”]
• Consequences of Mitt Winning
• The Democrats’ [Convention] First Day
• Don’t [to American Voters in 2012 Elections]
• Denying Reality, or Why the GOP’s Internal Reform Will Take Some Time
• Eleven Questions for All Presidential Candidates
• “Fiscal Cliff” or Briar Patch?
• Foreign Affairs: They Matter Much More Than You Think
• France and Germany versus the [American] Psychopaths
• The Gang’s New Capo
• GDP for Obama II, and Who’s Really a “Taker”
• Genocide in Arabia
• The GOP’s Five Big Lies
• Germany and America I
• Germany and America II: Could it Happen Here?
• Germany and America III: Following Jesus’ Advice
• The Great Salesman: Music and Words [Mitt in First Debate]
• Graphical Extrapolation of Gasoline Prices: Six or Seven Dollars a Gallon in Ten Years
• The Great Salesman [Mitt Romney] Strikes Again
• Has PBS Turned to the Dark Side?
• Heroism in Libya [Coda]
• How to Make Solar Power Seem Expensive When it Isn’t
• How Near-Term Energy Policy Could Make or Break Us
• Huntsman at State?
• Huntsman v. Romney [2012]
• Joe Klein, Watching Fox, and the Civil War’s Final End
• Keystone: An Engineering and Economic Atrocity
• The Libya Kerfluffle [in the 2012 campaign]
• Looking for God in a Godless World
• “The Messiah’s” Burden
• Method in His Madness
• Mitt, King of Gaffes
• Mitt’s War Risk
• My Dozen Tweets
• No-Bluff Obama
• A Noose for America’s Middle Class
• Obama and Romney: A Handy Comparison Chart
• “Old Europe”
• Paul Ryan as Sidekick: What It Means
• The Perfect Dupes
• The President’s Recess Appointments
• Signs of a Sick Democracy: the First New Hampshire “Debate”
• Succession and Selection of Leaders [in China and the US]
• Susan Rice at State
• Thanksgiving Message 2012: A Baker’s Dozen Reasons to be Thankful
• Thank You, Iowa, and Hello Huntsman
• “That Vision Thing”
• Two Gathering Storms
• Vice President Huntsman?
• The Vice-Presidential Debate
• Working Together
• Why the [Presidents’s First] Debate Flub?
• Why I Topped Up My Contribution to the President Today (8/31/12)
• Why Mitt Lost
• Why Mitt Will Win and Lose
• Why Romney Would Make a Bad President
• Worst-Case Mitt
• Yes, He Can! [Obama, debate]

  2011

• America’s Two Crises [Default and Murdoch]
• The Arab Spring, Ten Months In
• Can Europe Help Save Us?
• Can Markets Be Wrong?
• Capitalism Isn’t Broken; Wall Street Is
• Capitalism on Trial [in Libya]
• The Casinos Won, so Buckle Your Seat Belts
• Changing America, Starting with Dixie
• Commodities Today: How to Make a Bad Situation Much, Much Worse
• Common Sense About Pakistan
• “Daddy! Mommy! I want more oil!”
• The Deal [Avoiding Debt-Default, 2011]
• To Default, or Not to Default: The Political Angle
• The Die is Cast [on Mission to Kill Bin Laden]
• Dexia = AIG Redux, or Einstein’s Definition of Insanity
• The Double-Dip Scenario
• Elizabeth Is Running!
• Ending the Not-War War
• Europe’s New Bailout Plan
• Excising our Metastatic Cancer of Finance: Temporary Market-Based Nationalization
• Flirting with the Devil [and a US Default]
• Further Signs of Greatness
• Gang Rule, or Government by Extortion
• Gripping Political Theater [in Debt-Default Endgame]
• High Noon on PBS [Lehrer Interviews McConnell]
• Hillary Clinton’s First Big Test
• How Rick Santelli Killed the Housing Rescue
• Islamophobia: Three Lies
• Jon Huntsman: A Good Man Ignored
• Krugman, Reason and Culture [and their Effects on National Default]
• Mad Money Men Mayhem
• The Manhattan Dragon and Sir Cyrus of Vance
• The McCain/Obama Rapprochement
• Mitch’s Desperate Gambit [to Prevent Default]
• The New Royalists (and the New Guillotines)
• “Occupy Wall Street” Movement: Initial Information
• One of Us
• Ordinary People Matter
• Our Banks, Our Media, Oil and War
• Our Ten Grave National Problems: How Long Have they Festered?
• Pakistan: A New Policy
• Party of Extremists
• In Praise of Gates
• The Proper Response [to Near-Shutdown of Government] is Rage
• Run, Elizabeth [Warren], Run!
• Sample E-Mail to Your Representatives in Congress [re Debt Default]
• The “Second-Amendment Solution”
• A Second Great Depression
• Snap!
• State of the Union [2011]
• Teaching the Retarded [about the GOP's Real Goals]
• Thinking Outside the Box: A Zero Capital-Gains Tax
• The Traps Our Founders Foresaw (that We Fell In)
• Twelve Republican Stupidities [in Debt-Reduction Extortion]
• Two Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Save America
• Underestimating the Task and the President (or Krugman At It Again)
• Us Against Them
• Vital Numbers
• Watching the Sun Set [on the American Century]
• Why An American Jew Supports Palestinian Statehood
• Why Do We Need Armed Forces?
• Why Obama Should Win (and Why I’m Donating Again)
• Why Obama Will Win Again (and Why I’m No Longer Donating)
• Zucotti Park, or the Power of Numbers

  2010

• And you thought government was bad!
• Bossism and Racism by the Numbers
• Conservation of Money, or Why the Fed Should Manage Derivatives
• Coussoule and Boehner, A Comparison
• A Critical Year End
• “The Defiant Ones”
• A Dozen Reasons for House Members to Vote for Health-Insurance Reform
• All Hail the Speaker!
• Dystopia
• Faux Democracy
• The First Big Mistake
• Fork ‘em, Mr. President!
• Four Dollars a Gallon by Next Summer
• Grover Norquist’s World: Indentured Servitude for Youth
• In Bed with Boehner [On Summers and Geithner]
• “Intelligent Design” and Engineering: A Tale of Orwellian Word Theft
• Is Facebook Doing Us In?
• It’s the Bystanders, Stupid!
• “I’ve Got Mine, Jack!”: The American Recipe for Dystopia
• The Morning After [Health Insurance Reform]
• Midterm Aftermath: Diagnosis and Prognosis
• Mr. Reid, Back Down!
• “Neglecting the Base,” or the Meaning of “We”
• An Open Letter to the President [re Tax Cuts]
• Our New Long, Twilight Struggle
• Reds on the Right
• Our Republican Platform (Pledge to America)
• Outrage! (The Shirley Sherrod Story)
• The SEC’s Suit against Goldman, Sachs: What it Means
• A Sense of Perspective
• Stalin in America? [comparing Boehner]
• The Summers/Geithner Team: Obama’s McNamara or Rumsfeld?
• Tax Cuts for the Rich: A Disastrous Blunder
• Tax Cuts for the Rich and DADT: Two Litmus Tests
• Ten Reasons to Vote Democratic in 2010
• The “Texas Question” Answered
• Think!—A Voter’s Guide for 2010
• Two Sentences that Could Save Our Republic
• Working Quietly and Well
• Young People, Please Save Us (and Yourselves) Again!
• You’ve Got to Know Something

  2009

• An American Soap Opera
• Bankers
• Big Tobacco’s Just Deserts
• Bob Herbert on Racism and Hatred in Politics
• Bonus Lessons
• California’s EPA Waiver
• China Rising III: America and China in Crisis
• Creative Destruction
• The Curious Case of Tom Daschle
• Cutting Our New President Some Slack
• A Day to Cherish
• A Double Dip?
• Early Dog Days
• The End of an Era
• Fear, Delusion and Their Antidote
• Five Economic Lies
• Geithner’s Outline Gets “D” for Accountability
• Getting Smart
• Health-Insurance Basics
• Health-Insurance Quid Pro Quo
• Health-Insurance Reform on its Deathbed
• Health Insurance That Isn’t
• Infrastructure, Industrial Policy, and Economic Recovery
• Independence Day
• John Boehner
• Judge Sotomayor and “Identity Politics”
• Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball
• A Maginot Line for Missiles
• Message for the Gang of Six and the Blue Dogs
• Military Secrecy: Still Useful after All These Years
• Nervous Nellies
• The Obama “Referendum”
• Obama’s Blueprint for Tomorrow
• Obama’s Velvet Glove
• Our Still Dysfunctional Congress
• Perseverance
• The President’s Bow
• The Public Option
• Putting a Price on Obstructionism
• The President’s Speech
• Recovery by the Numbers
• Rotten Business
• Sarah and Sonia: A Post-Fourth Note
• A Super Special Prosecutor
• Should Geitner Go?
• Time to Twist Arms
• Timing is Everything [in Afghanistan]
• To Do Or Not To Do
• Universal Economic Education: Wising Up
• U.S. Industrial Policy: “Cash for Clunkers” and Cap & Trade
• Van Jones
• Virtue
• War Against War
• What To Do About Joe
• “When Donkeys Fly": Steven Chu’s Energy Plans

  2008

• Abortion
• 9/11 After Seven
• Acting Like Adults
• Al Gore’s Energy Challenge
• The Alpha Tribe
• Another Red State, and What a Victory!
• Anti-Deficiency Laws and our Mortgage Crisis
• Back to the Future
• The Bailout Act, Amended
• A Baker’s Dozen Reasons Why Obama is Best
• The Banality of Evil
• Barack Obama’s Good Weekend and Sterling Endorsements
• Best is Best
• Bitter
• The Candidates’ Energy Plans I
• Carter and Hamas
• A Clean, Fair and Honest Campaign
• The Cleveland Debate
• The Clinton-Krugman Health-Care Swindle
• Clinton and Obama: A Handy Comparison Chart
• Compare Character
• Comparing Obama: Three Essential Readings
• Crunch Time in the Caucasus
• The Dangerous Illusion of “Clean Coal”
• Democrats for McCain?
• The Dilbert Effect, or Don’t Knock Hope
• Do We Look Stupid? [About the Economy]
• Double Crossers [The Clintons]
• Energy Policy: Good Batteries and How to Get Them
• Energy Policy: A Matter of Planning
• Facts for Last-Minute Deciders
• Fear Itself
• The Fighter Pilot
• The First 200 Days: Fourteen Priorities
• Follow the Light!
• Four Myths that Need Debunking
• Frat Boy II
• GDP for Obama
• Goodbye, Hillary!
• Gossip and Policy
• The Great Debate
• He Did His Homework [Tim Russert]
• Hillary Clinton: A Bad Idea Then, a Bad Idea Now
• Hillary Not Reading the NIE
• Hillary-ous Economics
• Hillary’s Exit
• Hillary’s Last Stand
• In Myths and Rumors Credimus
• How the Dow’s Drop May Save Us
• How Republican Ideology Destroyed America’s Competitiveness
  and Sapped Her Strength
• Identity Politics and the Powell Parable
• Ideological Mirror Images and Olympic Lessons
• Immigrants, Alpha Males, and America’s Three Cultures
• Inaccurate
• Innumeracy, Economics and the Great Accommodation
• Iraq and November [2008]
• Iraq and Our Elections
• Irony to the Max
• Joe Biden
• Krugman the Authoritarian
• Lack of Imagination II: Making the Volt Succeed
• Leading is Taking People Where they Wouldn’t Otherwise Go
• Lessons from "Honor" Killings in Germany
• Little Things Mean a Lot [Obama’s First News Conference]
• Luffing Time
• Mars, Venus and Presidential Politics
• McCain and Obama: A Handy Comparison Chart
• Meritocracy Restored
• Michelle’s American Story
• A New Environmental Vision
• Nixon and Bush in Female Form?
• A Note on Campaign Financing
• Nothing Has Changed
• Now Let’s See Tough
• Obama’s Energy Mistake
• Obama’s Meritocracy
• An Obama Reading List
• Obama’s Sense of Perspective
• Obama’s Speech on Race
• Obama’s Strategic Vision
• That Old Alpha Thing, or Why Obama Might Lose
• An Open Appeal to Edwards Voters
• Paul Krugman’s Nobel Prize
• Paulson’s Latest Egg
• Pennsylvania
• The Philadelphia “Debate”
• Prejudice and Pride
• Putin’s Dangerous Game
• Revolt of the Experts
• The Real Hillary
• Response to CJCalgirl
• The Reverend Jeremiah Wright
• Revolt of the Experts
• Sarah Palin
• Sarah Palin II: The Demise of American Democracy?
• Saving the Big Three [Car Makers]
• Senator Clinton, Please Step Aside!
• Seven Questions for Sarah Palin Fans
• The Sizzle and the Steak
• A Solution to Our Energy Crisis: The Chevy Volt
• Soothing: The Last Debate
• The Texas Debate
• Time to Show Those Brains
• Tired of Lies
• The Thing that Dares Not Speak its Name
• Think, Pennsylvania!
• Think People, Not Ideas
• Trade, Economics and Ancient Rome
• The Transcendent Need for Real Talent at State
• Tough
• Twenty Reasons to Vote Democratic in 2008
• Virtue
• What's Happened to Bill?
• Where are the Adults?
• Who Can Keep Us Safe?
• Who Can Win? Obama Takes the Heartland and the South
• Winning Red States
• Why Hillary is Dangerous I: Foreign and Military Policy
• Why Hillary is Dangerous II: Pandering
• Why I Gave Obama Another $2,300
• Why Judgment Matters
• Why McCain’s Foreclosure “Rescue” Won’t Work, and What Will
• Why the New $800 Billion Bailout is a Non-Starter
• Why Obama? An Appeal to Older Voters
• Yes, We Did!
• Young People, Save Us (and Yourselves)!

  2007

• Ahmadinejad Speaks?
• Arrogance and Humility
• The Bancrofts’ Big Decision
• Barack Obama's "Inexperience"
• The Bill Factor
• Bye, Bye Boomers
• Campaign Math 101
• A Chance for Success in Baghdad?
• Clintonian heresy
• Common Sense and Iran
• The Demise of Honor
• The Dems' Fatal Mistake?
• Dishonesty and Stupidity
• Don’t be Fooled by Name Dropping
• Dream Team
• Energy Independence: The Proper Role of Coal
• Five Questions for Vetting Candidates
• Footnote: the Libby Commutation
• A Forty Year Dry Spell
• Gleams, Boos and Historical Inevitability
• Hillary Clinton: Follower or Leader?
• If Barack and Hillary Were White Males
• Impeach Gonzales Now
• Invest in America [in Obama’s Campaign]
• Iraq’s Future
• Iraq’s Last Chance
• Is Hillary Dangerous?
• It’s Obama!
• Just Like a Man
• Karl Rove, Republican Destroyer
• Killed for a Photo Op
• Krugman Redux
• Last Night’s Democratic Debate
• Lightweights and Heavyweights
• A Mini Marshall Plan for Shiite Iraq
• More on Impeaching Gonzales
• More on Iraq’s Future
• A Necessary Heresy
• Nixon, Bush, and Scientific Demagoguery
• Obama’s and Clinton’s Health-Care Plans
• Obama's Health-Care Plan [May 2007]
• Obama and Evangelicals
• Obama’s Terrorism Speech
• Obama's Touch of Greatness
• One-Man Rule
• An Open Letter to Republicans in Congress
• Putin, Zubkov, and Their Lessons for Us
• A Real Benchmark for Leaving Iraq
• A Salute to Senator Lugar
• Search-and-Seizure Heresy
• Senator Clinton's Plan
• Senator Clinton's Political Epitaph
• Senator Obama: Please Fire the Idiots Now!
• Smarter People, Better Results
• Taking Our Worst Enemy Seriously
• A Tale of Honor and Government by Clique
• Ten Reasons to Back Barack
• Vote your Hearts, Iowa!
• What Politicians Do When Reality Intervenes
• What to Do About Obama's Brains
• Who can Win?
• Why Hawks Should Cheer the Antiwar Left
• Why We Can't Get Rid of Bush (humor)

  2006

• The 50.1 Percent Man
• Barack Obama and Colin Powell
• Benching the Star Quarterback [Colin Powell]
• A Dozen Reasons to Vote Democratic
• Law and Justice
• Lieutenant Ehren Watada
• The Lone Star Nation
• Oversight
• Playing into Bush's Hands
• The Rumsfeld Memo

  2005

• Civilian Control of the Military: Oversight or
  Micromanagement?
• The Decline of Competence in America
• Harriet Miers: Thinking Like Mush
• Judge Roberts: A Man for the Times?
• The NCAA and Native Mascots: A Question of Empathy
• An Open Letter to Colin Powell
• An Opportunity for Democrats
• Our War in the Shadows: Can we Succeed by Withdrawing?
• Plague Bioterrorism: A Sui-Genocide Bomb
• The President's Unauthorized, Secret Spying: A Constitutional Crisis
• Rumsfeld Must Go
• A Tale of Two Cities

  2004

• 2007
• Father Knows Best, or Does He?
• Intelligence Does Matter
• Why Bush Won

  2003 and before

• Cicero, McCain and Feingold

Race and Racism

• Acting Like Adults
• Bob Herbert on Racism and Hatred in Politics
• Bossism and Racism by the Numbers
• A Day to Cherish
• “The Defiant Ones”
• Double Crossers [the Clintons]
• Fork ‘em, Mr. President!
• How Karl Rove and Frank Luntz Destroyed the Republican Party
• If Barack and Hillary Were White Males
• Identity Politics and the Powell Parable
• Islamophobia: Three Lies
• Learning to Love Logic
• Meritocracy Restored
• Michelle’s American Story
• The NCAA and Native Mascots: A Question of Empathy
• “Neglecting the Base,” or the Meaning of “We”
• Nothing Has Changed
• Obama’s Speech on Race
• One of Us
• Outrage! (The Shirley Sherrod Story)
• Perseverance
• Prejudice and Pride
• The President’s Second Inaugural
• Racism versus Self-Preservation
• Random Thoughts on Race in America
• The Reverend Jeremiah Wright
• Sarah and Sonia: A Post-Fourth Note
• Tax Cuts for the Rich and DADT: Two Litmus Tests
• The Thing that Dares Not Speak its Name
• Van Jones
• Virtue
• Yes, We Did!
• Three Gates

Texas

• Let Them Go! The Case for Secession
• The Lone Star Nation
• The “Texas Question” Answered

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