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but Club for Growth (the radical Republican tax cut advocacy group) just linked to a YouTube video I made for my company, explaining “What is a prediction market?”.
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2008/04/what_is_a_prediction_market.php
I somehow doubt they know that they are currently featuring on their front page a video created by someone who’s a strong supporter of Barack Obama.
Like I said… […]

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Marc Andreessen had the opportunity to sit down with Barack Obama for a long chat a while back. There were a couple of really interesting insights that I wanted to highlight here.
One of the supposed questions about Barack Obama is based on the fact that he doesn’t have the executive experience that many recent […]

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I wanted to write about two books that I’ve read recently. The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin, and Imperial Life in the Emerald City, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
I bought “The Nine” a number of months ago as I browsed in a Washington DC bookshop. I’m fascinated […]

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I believe that Barack Obama is the best candidate to succeed George W. Bush as President of the United States. I wanted to highlight three recent articles on Barack that I found interesting. (Then again, it’s easy to find an article interesting when it shows “your” candidate in a positive light.)
Vanity Fair recently […]

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Ever since his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, I’ve been a fan of Barack Obama. Even before that famous speech I had known about him, given the chaos and mess of the 2004 Illinois Senate election. He had won the Democratic nomination, a bit of a surprise if I remember right, […]

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I Got What America Needs Right Here
Sometimes I’m a little stupid, maybe, a little slow in the head, so I’m wondering if you can help me get something straight….

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From the GQ interview,
What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. […]

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From the New York Times article, “Molding the Ideal Islamic Citizen”.
TEHRAN- The instructor held up an unfurled green condom as she lectured a dozen brides-to-be on details of family planning. But birth control was only one aspect of the class, provided by the government and mandatory for all couples before marriage. The other was about […]

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