"Why don't all newspapers use folks like Professor Chevalier, a brilliant economist at the Yale School of Management?"

The answer is apparent to all but Mr. Hundt. The answer is RELEVANCE. If the media started using experts who are really relevant and who thought about and understood the problems addressed then that would move discourse to a positions that genuinely require serious changes to the status quo. Since the media have either arrogated to themselves or have been assigned the task of defending the status quo by all means necessary they therefore do not use any (or a few "quaint" ones) experts outside the accepted discourse. They are (as others have coined the phrase "serious" others like your good professor, are provided occasionally for amusement only. So Ms.Coulter, and Bill Kristol, and Bill Bennett and Michael O'Hanlon, and the Kagans and the other fakers and fakirs get serious media time; others are marginalized.She would be used more if she would get serious.

Posted at October 21, 2007 1:07 PM in response to No I can't post the links

but Obama is bringing us the new politics. above the fray. above it all. yippee. I am so excited. we can all just get along.

Posted at October 16, 2007 2:16 PM in response to Obama Takes Off The Gloves

Ironically, Blimpo called for the ballots to be recounted.

Posted at October 12, 2007 9:42 PM in response to Gore Nobel Discussion

Thanks for the correction. I am sorry for my incorrect assertion about endorsing Lieberman. (I still have some partisan bones to pick, namely however good Lieberman, Snowe, or Chaffee are on environmental issues, a Congress with them as part of the Republican majority is in my opinion an anti-environmental Congress)but my assertion on Sierra Club + Lieberman in 2006 was wrong.

Posted at October 9, 2007 10:53 PM in response to What's So Scary About Environmentalism?

I had thought Mr. Pope and the Sierra Club were firm supporters of Joe Lieberman. HE is lecturing progressives? I guess Joe does too.

Posted at October 9, 2007 6:52 AM in response to What's So Scary About Environmentalism?

You talk of jihadists. And I agree. there will be attacks by them, organized AND unorganized. But what of Hizbollah? What happens to Lebanon? Saudi royalty will be happy probably but will it withstand the shock? And Pakistan will certainly be thrown into turmoil.

Posted at September 30, 2007 3:59 PM in response to Some reasons why

Giuliani is morally unfit for office. Any office. He is an altogether repugnant excuse for a human being. He has the swagger of his idol, Benito and about the same substance. He is a real louse. He'll do credit to the Republican Party.

Posted at September 26, 2007 2:53 PM in response to Rudy's Judgment: From Kerik to Kazakhstan

"Or, to put it more cynically, voter fraud suppression may be – and sometimes clearly is – an attempt to suppress minority (i.e. Democratic) votes."

Mr.Toobin: in your effort to avoid saying ANYTHING you have constructed a self-contradicting sentence. If it "sometimes clearly is" than I do not think "it may be". Please work on your conditionals.

Posted at September 26, 2007 8:36 AM in response to Voter Fraud -- Son of Bush v. Gore

I wonder if I can get some reaction to the following query. It is clear Ahmadinejad has said a number of inflammatory comments and these are trotted out every time any contacts arehad (by US reporters...the Pelley interview seems to scrape new low levels, and the Bollinger tirade). I have the distinct impression that the same general shunning and demonization (maybe with a little less invective) went on when Khatami held office. So is the demonization dependent on who holds office?

Posted at September 25, 2007 8:04 AM in response to Two Presidents Make Fools of Themselves at Columbia

Amy Klobuchar caved? I believe she does it often and well.

Posted at September 21, 2007 7:05 AM in response to Theme Song of the Senate Democrats: "Let's All Get Fooled Again"