{"id":3681,"date":"2010-11-13T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2010-11-13T07:01:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T13:01:43","slug":"all-politics-linkorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3681","title":{"rendered":"All Politics Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All political links today, I&#8217;m afraid:<\/p>\n<li>More on why our evil drug companies <a href=\"http:\/\/pipeline.corante.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/09\/where_drugs_come_from_by_country.php\">aren&#8217;t so evil<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I have to agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2273708\/\">Saletan<\/a>. The Democrats won big over the last two years, getting huge pieces of legislation passed.  Elections are temporary; big government programs are forever.  By the same token, I think the GOP really lost in 2000.  They won an election but completely screwed the pooch on policy.  Unfortunately, much of the current GOP leadership can&#8217;t tell the difference.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Bloomberg: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1328239\/New-Yorks-Mayor-Michael-Bloomberg-soup-thats-high-salt.html\">soup nazi<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I really don&#8217;t know what to make of payday lending.  The arguments against are obvious.  But Reason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dKTIJ5Xmb8w&#038;feature=player_embedded\">point out<\/a> that banning them may simply be making things worse.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/10\/we-are-deeply-seriousabout-gen\">This<\/a> sort of thing, in which a reporter waxes rhapsodic about how romantic the Communists are, drives me nuts.<\/li>\n<li>Torture update: the Brits say Bush is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/nov\/09\/british-deny-bush-claims-foil-terror\">full of it<\/a>; but Obama says he won&#8217;t go after agents who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/09\/AR2010110904106.html?hpid=topnews\">concealed it<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If the Democrats sided <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.jta.org\/politics\/article\/2010\/11\/11\/2741711\/candid-cantor\">with a foreign government<\/a> against the President, I imagine we&#8217;d be seeing a different reaction.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All political links today, I&#8217;m afraid: More on why our evil drug companies aren&#8217;t so evil. I have to agree with Saletan. The Democrats won big over the last two years, getting huge pieces of legislation passed. Elections are temporary; big government programs are forever. By the same token, I think the GOP really lost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All Politics Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-nanny","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Xn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}