5 responses to “NYE Tabs”

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   Michael Cain

   December 31, 2025 at 1:39 pm

   Re Krugman’s column…

   What is the Heritage Foundation good for? It’s an established non-profit with a name easily confused with other “Heritage” organizations where dark money can stash people and pay them $100K per year.

   It’s a lot harder to start a new political party today than it was in 1850. There are more states. The states have many more requirements that require a major party to have significant staff and money. The Libertarians and Greens have been at it for many years, and still can’t reliably get their presidential candidate on the ballot in all 50 states. Let alone candidates in 100 Senate races or 435 House races.

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   gVOR10

   December 31, 2025 at 4:09 pm

   One should point out that by Roberts and his accomplices definition it isn’t corruption unless there’s a specific, provable quid pro quo, and we can see why they like that definition. And Roberts has made the tightly reasoned originalist argument that we must respect the Court just because. Behaving respectably is way too radical an idea for Roberts.

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   Kathy

   December 31, 2025 at 6:02 pm

   It’s not just measles. Jr. on the half brain is also doing wonders for whooping cough and, soon enough, liver cancer.

   The hepatitis B vaccine doesn’t just lead to fewer hepatitis infections, but also fewer cases of liver cancer.

   Also, about the HepB vaccine schedule in Denmark:

   And Hepatitis B? Well, they don’t need to vaccinate every child because again, thanks to universal health care, they make sure to screen every pregnant person and selectively vaccinate the kids born to parents with Hep B.

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   Jay L. Gischer

   December 31, 2025 at 7:46 pm

   Yeah, that Spencer Ackerman piece *is* good. Highly recommended.

   FWIW, I think he is too generous when he says Bari Weiss is incompetent. But maybe that is simple journalistic conservatism. Bari Weiss is a propagandist, not a journalist. Bari Weiss is a “clicks/views for money” worker.

   Not an editor.

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   charontwo

   December 31, 2025 at 9:15 pm

   @Jay L. Gischer:

   ¿Porque no los dos?

   Whatever she is, competent at it she is not.

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