Good politics blog?

rock · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:50 am Post subject: Good politics blog?

Anyone know of any good politics blogs?

I'm a quasi economic libertarian(left leaning) and on just about all else quite the "typical" libertarian.
Probably closet to HBA from what I know of other fellow libs here.

(don't really care to much if the blog has a lib slant or not, just you know something... reasonable)
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Philosophos · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:16 am Post subject:

There are a handful of political blogs that I check on a regular basis. I'm personally very leftist socially and centrist economically.

-The Liberal Values Blog is my favorite. The blogger claims to be a classical liberal (which is close to libertarian), although I find him to be a little left economical compared to my understanding of classical liberalism. But I'm becoming more and more disenchanted with his constant Clinton-bashing. I really don't like Clinton either, but there's only so many times you can read about it.
-The Diatribes of Jay are a series of very well-written articles. Jay's a professor of some sort (he doesn't say what). The writing of this blog is quite outstanding. He's best classified as an "independent" (kinda like me - I could vote Democrat, Republican, or Libertarian depending on the issue and the candidate at hand).
-The Carpetbagger Report is a strongly Democrat-leaning blog. I read it because Steve Benen's quite prolific, is a supurb writer, and his bashing of Neo-Cons can be quite effective (Neoconservatism is the worst of all worlds, IMO - on everything from economics to foreign policy to individual liberty, they suck hard).
-The Angry Bear gives me a good dose of centrist blogging primarily about economic news. The posts can be a mixed bag at the end of the day. Some are outstanding. But, for instance, their posts analyzing the economic performance of the US under Democratic vs. Republican presidents were oversimplistic at best. I once saw one of their posters claim a correlation with an r of something like 0.2!
-Finally, I occasionally read Brad Delong's blog for some really good economics blogging. He's a UC Berkely economist. He knows what he's talking about. Both politically and economically, he seems to lean left.
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rock · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:53 am Post subject:

Philosophos · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:42 am Post subject:

Philosophos · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:59 am Post subject:

New one for me:

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/

McArdle's very insightful and often humorous.
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