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By Mark Bahnisch on November 5, 2008
There’s been a lot of discussion over the last few weeks about whether today’s vote would signal the end of the Reagan era. That discussion had two interlinked referents – the combination of militarism and small government rhetoric (if not [...]
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Economics, Foreign Elections, Poverty, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Bush era, election results, electoral college, electoral realignment, George W. Bush, neo-cons, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, political sociology, Reagan era, Ronald Reagan, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on November 5, 2008
It’s all over, red rover, and Barack Obama, with 200 electoral votes in the bag and enough in the bag to come from the West Coast and Midwest to come, has won the presidential election. Lots of interesting stuff still [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged barack obama, Democratic Party, Democrats, economic policy, election results, electoral college, FDR, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, henry paulson, presidential transition, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 27, 2008
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who found the juxtaposition on the news last night of discussion of global regulation at a meeting between Chinese and EU leaders and George W. Bush’s “free markets are great!” remarks rather [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Europe, Foreign Elections, Health, International, Markets, Polls, Sociology | Tagged alan greenspan, Barack Obabama, Bretton Woods II, business cycles, Capitalism, Democrats, economic policy, Economics, efficient markets hypothesis, financial markets, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, GOP, healthcare, ideology, John McCain, John Quiggin, Keynesianism, neo-liberalism, regulation, socialism, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, taxes, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on September 30, 2008
The Nancy Pelosi speech that made the Republicans cry: Context in this post about the Congressional rejection of TARP.
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged Bush administration, credit crisis, financial markets, George W. Bush, GOP, henry paulson, House Democrats, House Republicans, Nancy Pelosi, Paulson bailout, TARP, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By tigtog on September 29, 2008
Working on the picture being worth a thousand words concept, Pundit Kitchen (from the ICHC team) encourages reader submissions. It does tend to lean leftish, which doesn’t bother me, but if it bothers you then leave a link to contrarian [...]
Posted in Blogging, Levity, Media, Photography, Politics, The Web | Tagged AIG, bailout plan, George W. Bush, ICHC, LOLmacros, LOLspeak, McCain, nixon, Palin, Paulson, US election |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 10, 2008
Although aspects of his critique are tentatively sketched by his own admission, Jay Rosen has hit more nails than he’s missed with his analysis of the significance of the Sarah Palin veep selection by the McCain campaign. Rosen’s article is [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ethics, Foreign Elections, Media, Polls, Sociology, USA, Women | Tagged Alaska, american election 2008, Andrew Perrin, barack obama, blogosphere, bridge to nowhere, cultural studies, Culture Wars, Democrats, earmarks, electoral behaviour, Gary Kamiya, George W. Bush, GOP, Jay Rosen, John McCain, Karl Rove, netroots, political blogging, political sociology, political strategy, Polls, Republicans, sarah palin, Sociology, sociology of media, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on August 16, 2008
Standing beside US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Georgian President Mikhael Shaakazvili described Russia as “evil”. It’s probably too much to expect that he might recognise his own degree of responsibility for the war (not forgetting Vladimir Putin’s of course), [...]
Posted in Europe, History, International, Media, Politics, Religion, USA, War | Tagged american election 2008, cold war rhetoric, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, Foreign policy, foreign policy realism, George W. Bush, georgia, Georgia war, Iraq War, John McCain, Mikhael Shaakazvili, political journalism, russia, south ossetia, USA Election 2008, Vladimir Putin, War on Georgia |
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