Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
TIM CAVANAUGH: Larry Summers: His Genius Can’t Be Measured In Dollars. “The best part about news coverage of Larry Summers is seeing all the new ways people find to avoid saying that the current director of the President Obama’s National Economic Council is an arrogant fool.” Well, except when they’re, you know, Tim Cavanaugh. [...]
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Here we are, writes Tim Cavanaugh, 233 years into the American experiment and 72 years into the de facto and de jure reign of the U.S. poets laureate. But can you even name America's national poet?
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
TIM CAVANAUGH ON HOLLYWOOD’S STIMULUS: Why $23 million creates just 21 jobs.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Put on your shades, put the top down, crank up the ranchera tunes, and cruise around Hollywood (the actual neighborhood, not the symbolic movie industry) in search of your tax dollars. In the LA Weekly , Tim Cavanaugh writes, "Hollywood has received $23,338,327 in grants, loans and contracting. This money has created just 20.57 jobs. That’s $1,134,580.80 per job. And as interviews...
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
TIM CAVANAUGH: Corruption, Panic and Incompetence Fueled Geithner’s Backstairs Intrigue. “Tim Geithner needs to be fired. He needs to be fired in 2008, and he needs to be fired even more in 2009. Any fair reading of the SIGTARP report leads to the conclusion that he lacks the competence, the honesty and the [...]
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
TIM CAVANAUGH: Post-3962 Town Hall Tour: Becerra Bombs In L.A., Sherman Kills In Van Nuys. I’m not surprised that Brad Sherman held up well on technical questions. I interviewed him several years ago on nanotechnology for TCS Daily and he was a very smart guy. Still, Cavanaugh’s conclusion is striking: [...]
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
TIM CAVANAUGH: Why was Hollywood unwilling or unable to make compelling narratives about the horrors of the Soviet system? I’d just like to see somebody make Total Eclipse.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
From our November issue, Contributing Editor Tim Cavanaugh asks whether Hollywood was unwilling or unable to make compelling narratives about the horrors of the Soviet system.
To the People (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... But um...about that douche who works at paper and gets people fired. I won't rehash the story, Tim Cavanaugh does a fair job at that, so read his post first to get the pertinent background information. I guess the point that I'll make, that I've yet to see anywhere, is more in relation to the management of mainstream print media. To me it's laughable that this guy's job at the paper is Director...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
More signs that New Jersey is absolutely the greatest state in the nation, and not simply because it was the stamping grounds at some point of virtually all great past, present, and future libertarians (well, at least Milton Friedman, Virginia Postrel , Tyler Cowen , Peter Boettke , Karol Boudreaux , English Tim Cavanaugh , Gene Healy , and others too numerous to mention, including one who proudly...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
... day, Garrett would find some reason to return to The Liffey, where he would shoot important, Tim Cavanaugh-indicting video such as this : Garrett later showed up as a contributor to Wonkette , in addition to fighting the day-to-day battle for increasing the scope of liberty in the Bay State, partly through vigorous agitatin' on the Internet. Yes, the kid owes me $20 for betting against the...
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
... the same career path, Political Science and pre-law. On September 5, 2008, Reason's Matt Welch and Tim Cavanaugh interviewed Root. At the time, candidate Root wanted Obama's Columbia grade average released, as were G.W. Bush's, John Kerry and Al Gore - not to mention overall intelligence . Welch asked this: [Welch] So tell us what we should know about Barack Obama that we don't? [Root] I...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Tim Cavanaugh was earlier riffing off the 9th amendment's multiple ideological uses ; here's a report from the 10th Amendment Center on some recent action on the notion that the states and the people have some powers reserved to them from the Feds. Excerpts: In states around the country, there’s a growing movement to address and resist two of the most abused parts of the Constitution –...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
... known as the free-trade Democrat . At the Democratic National Convention a few months later, Tim Cavanaugh warned that " the New Democrats are finished . In their place there appears to be a new breed of Democrat, less driven by a vision of dumping leftist junk from the party's agenda, but benefiting from a nearly two-decade period in which the benefits of free markets have become conventional...
SchansBlog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
On the night of two tremendous victories for Republicans in the governor's races in NJ and especially VA, it seems like a good time to reprint excerpts of this rant from Tim Cavanaugh in Reason... According to the conventional wisdom, the Republican Party’s 54-seat gain in Bill Clinton’s first midterm elections had occurred thanks to the much-discussed Contract With America. This...
