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June 4
“ This is a strategic problem for Republicans for several reasons. One is that the party’s reliance on a resentment-based appeal has caused its policy apparatus to atrophy. Erickson is not alone among conservatives in thinking that “academic and technocratic” approaches are best left to pointy-headed liberals. Another is that people like Erickson are a declining share of the electorate.
Erick Erickson Shows The Worst in GOP - Business Insider
May 24
“ To have that culture that embraces failure, that will take a chance in order to get better, but know that there’s a chance where it blows up, that’s what I like and respect about the organization and the culture that we have right now.
Bay Area Sports Guy – Jed York: ‘We weren’t sure how Colin was going to play’
May 6
“ There are several things to say about the Oregon study, but I think the most important one is this: not that the study didn’t find statistically significant improvements in various measures of health, but that the study couldn’t have found statistically significant improvements. It was impossible from the beginning.
What We Know—And What We Don’t—About the Oregon Medicaid Study | Mother Jones
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“ It’s rare for Texas to require insurance for any kind of hazardous activity,” he said. “We have very little oversight of hazardous activities and even less regulation.

The Texas Fertilizer Plant That Exploded Had Barely Any Liability Insurance

Apparently not quite everything is bigger in Texas. 
April 30
“ Conservatives rejected Bushism without demonstrating any understanding of why it was adopted in the first place, or why it was rejected. That’s George W. Bush’s political legacy: a weakened Republican Party unable to face its flaws.
George Bush’s True Legacy? A Republican Party in Denial - Bloomberg
April 22
“ For us, staying indoors on Friday was no different from staying in during a winter storm so that the snowplows could clear the streets. We were giving the professionals room to work.
Marathon Day | Desperation Device
April 3
“ That’s it, extend him. The next thing you know, 2019’s here, and another team will be pawing at Bumgarner. Extend him. You can’t be too careful. Because what was that we just watched? One of the best starts we’ll see from anyone all year, and there are still 160 games left. Goodness.
Madison Bumgarner: empirically better than assorted Dodgers players - McCovey Chronicles
April 1
“ But mostly they’ll get 100% out of what they have while the more talented and monied Dodgers seem intent on getting 50%. I think they’ll have to keep the pedal down all season to beat L.A. and it might still be close around September 1, which is when the Dodgers will fold for good and finish 4-to-8 games out.
2013 Previews/NL West: How To Lose A Pennant « Baseball Nerd
December 3
“ No economic model can prove that government interference in the economy by nature tends to do harm. While economics can show that some government programs will fail—rent control, say, or confiscatory tax rates—it cannot show that all government programs will fail. As for the various moral arguments for libertarianism, they are even weaker. Liberal theorists such as Ronald Dworkin and Amartya Sen have long since shown that libertarians simply fail to grasp the full dimensions of equal liberty, which does not demand, as libertarians would have it, that everyone should be equally free to starve, but that everyone should have a fair chance to pursue his goals freely. This principle may require a more active government than libertarians would allow.
Defining Conservatism Down | The American Conservative
November 16
“ This is one of the harsh truths you learn when you get married: Basic shit like a table costs a fucking fortune. Two grand for a wooden table. And it’s not like the surface of it is a giant iPad screen either. It just sits there and does nothing. This isn’t even a big table, and it certainly isn’t the most expensive table of its kind. The chairs that go along with this table are $395 each. JEEEEEEESUS. If it were up to me, my family would eat dinner off a milk crate.
The Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog
November 14
“ It seems as though a higher percentage of conservatives are more inclined to question empirical methods, to put it diplomatically.
Skew Yourselves: Nate Silver Is Here To Answer Your Questions
November 8
“ Independents. State polls showed Romney winning big among independents. Historically, any candidate polling that well among independents wins. But as it turned out, many of those independents were former Republicans who now self-identify as independents. The state polls weren’t oversampling Democrats and undersampling Republicans - there just weren’t as many Republicans this time because they were calling themselves independents.
Adviser: Romney “shellshocked” by loss - CBS News
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“ As a Republican, I also implore my fellow Republicans to take the lead in setting the tone for a results-oriented lame duck session, by reaching across the political aisle to invite collaboration on these massive issues that will dictate the future health of our economy. Not only is this the right approach for the country, but it is the path the Republican Party must take if it is ever to return to majority party status in America.
Press Releases - News & Events - United States Senator Olympia Snowe
November 7
“ The “quant triumph” here is more about the way we’ve approached the problem: a blend of political insight, statistical modeling, a ton of code and a fire hose of data from the pollsters.
Simon Jackman: Pollster Predictive Performance, 51 out of 51
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A Collection of Premature Obama Obituaries « The Boogle