{"id":18885,"date":"2010-10-11T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/unblogged-bits-mon-11-oct-10-1130.html"},"modified":"2010-10-11T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-11-oct-10-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/unblogged-bits-mon-11-oct-10-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 11-Oct-10 1130)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Op-Ed Columnist – Hey, Small Spender – NYTimes.com<\/a> – “The answer to the second question \u2014 why there\u2019s a widespread perception that government spending has surged, when it hasn\u2019t \u2014 is that there has been a disinformation campaign from the right, based on the usual combination of fact-free assertions and cooked numbers. And this campaign has been effective in part because the Obama administration hasn\u2019t offered an effective reply.”<\/li>\n
  2. Richard Shelby, the Nobel committee is holding on line one<\/a> – A minor embarrassment for the GOP, perhaps, but trivial compared to the overall scandalous obstruction nominees.<\/li>\n
  3. everything is broken #17 and #24<\/a> – On the problems with the mortgage industry today, and why they will be with us a looooong time.<\/li>\n
  4. Michael E. Mann – Get the anti-science bent out of politics<\/a> – “Challenges to policy proposals for how to deal with this problem should be welcome — indeed, a good-faith debate is essential for wise public policymaking. But the attacks against the science must stop. They are not good-faith questioning of scientific research. They are anti-science.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Op-Ed Columnist – Hey, Small Spender – NYTimes.com – “The answer to the second question \u2014 why there\u2019s a widespread perception that government spending has surged, when it hasn\u2019t \u2014 is that there has been a disinformation campaign from … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 11-Oct-10 1130)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29999,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/dispensing-with-even-truthiness.html","url_meta":{"origin":18885,"position":0},"title":"Dispensing with even truthiness","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Aug-12 1:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.\" Well, there you have it.Reshared post from +Yonatan ZungerI suppose that, in a way, this is refreshingly honest: Romney's senior campaign staff seems to be publicly and openly saying that they will, in fact, be lying about Obama and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30242,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/and-people-tell-me-the-gop-hasnt-changed.html","url_meta":{"origin":18885,"position":1},"title":""And people tell me the GOP hasn't changed"","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Sep-12 12:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course, neither Reagan nor Bush, Sr, would be welcome in Republican campaign politics today. 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