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We've noticed. Plenty of people talk these days about core American values, but a German professor of economics in Hamburg may ironically have written the best and most concise explanation of them in Der Spiegel this week.  Thomas Straubhaar writes that the problem with the American economy is that it has stopped being very American, and instead [...] Read this post »

Hope and stasis ? In 1992, James Carville coined the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid” as a way to focus the Bill Clinton campaign and keep it on message, and it worked; Clinton beat the incumbent George H. W. Bush in a three-way race by sticking with the issue closest to American voters at the time.  That phrase has [...] Read this post »

Trends. Welcome to California … the Red State.  At least that’s what Survey USA finds in its latest poll of likely voters in the gubernatorial and Senate races, where Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina still lead.  Fiorina barely edges Barbara Boxer in what is really a dead heat, but Whitman still beats Jerry Brown outside the [...] Read this post »

Tax cuts on a stick, 10-noon ET! The Ed Morrissey Show finishes its special Minnesota State Fair run today, going two hours from 10-noon ET/9-11 CT live from Dan Patch Avenue at the Great Minnesota Get-Together! Laura Brod joins me again to ...

Death Stall. The unemployment rate went up slightly in August to 9.6%, over the July rate of 9.5%, and overall the economy shed 54,000 jobs, according to the latest report from the BLS.  Private sector growth slowed from in July, dropping from an adjusted gain of 107,000 to 67,000, while the government terminated 131,000 jobs: Nonfarm payroll [...] Read this post »

A rose by any other name ... On Tuesday, Barack Obama claimed during his Oval Office speech that he had fulfilled his promise to get the combat troops out of Iraq: So tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of [...] Read this post »