Things to Cut?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 28th at 09:50 AM  | 

Paul Krugman wants to tax all sorts of things and in his zeal to tax (coupled with his partisan hackery) he chooses to ignore the GOP was willing to raise taxes on the Super Committee. Krugman wants to tax the rich, tax financial transactions, tax pretty much everything. It has become the Democrats’ mantra: tax, tax, tax. But they still can’t deal with this question: | Read More »

If This is the Real Conscience of a Liberal, Liberals Are Disgusting

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 11th at 11:54 AM  | 

Paul Krugman posits himself as the conscience of a liberal at the New York Times. If he speaks for liberals, liberals are truly disgusting. I assume and believe that most liberals reject this and hope many of them will be vocal about the disagreement. And the New York Times might want to rethink using Krugman’s conscience as that of a typical liberal. Today he remembers | Read More »

Hack Editorialist Paul Krugman Takes on a Nobel Prize Winner and Loses

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 8th at 12:17 PM  | 

In case you missed this from Friday, you need to go check it out. Hack editorialist Paul Krugman attacked Jim Bunning last week for blocking the extension of unemployment benefits. Krugman said “What Democrats believe is what textbook economics says”, namely that the government should keep paying unemployment benefits. There’s just one problem. As James Taranto pointed out, a Nobel Prize winning economist has written | Read More »