Americans Disagree With GOP on Deficit
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 16th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Americans Disagree With GOP on Deficit
Rep. Mike Honda, Roll Call
When Republicans made the federal deficit the centerpiece of their November 2010 campaigns, it was a rare convergence of smart policy meeting smart politics.Now that they have been forced to come in off the sidelines and govern, however, Republicans have quickly ditched the smart policy in favor of smart politics. Instead of attempting to construct a feasible, bipartisan, long-term solution to the deficit, they tried to fool the American people with infinitesimally small deficit reductions.
Computers Can Never Match Human Ingenuity
Stephen Baker, LA Times
A mere three years ago, the IBM computer now known as Watson was a “Jeopardy!”-playing fool. And that's putting it mildly.Watson had the verbal skills of a toddler. It botched the solutions to the game-show clues with howlers that filled IBM's research lab with laughter "” and raised deep concern. Once, when queried about a famous French bacteriologist, Watson skipped right past Louis Pasteur and responded instead: “What is, 'How tasty was my little Frenchman?'” (the title of a 1971Brazilian movie about cannibals).
A Budget Utterly Detached From Reality
Yuval Levin, National Review
The message of the budget the Obama administration released today is the same as the message the president delivered in his State of the Union address: All is well, full speed ahead, and let’s invest a little more in solar panels and high-speed rail.This message seems clearly to be a function of a political calculation: that voters do not want to face the coming debt crisis, and so it would be bad politics to force them to do so. I tend to think that’s not entirely true, and that voters will judge this kind of blindfolded budget to be unserious and inadequate to the…
