Megan McArdle of The Atlantic is on her honeymoon, leaving her blog in the hands of libertarians even more extremist and lunatic than she is [1]. One of those is Katherine Mangu Ward of Reason Magazine who, referring to a U.S. ironing board factory that was propped up with tariffs, says [2]:
Econ 101 aside, though, there's a more compelling moral reason to condemn this kind of tariff that should...
... Institute, guest-blogging for Megan McArdle (and, yes, she bears partial responsibility for leaving hacks like that with the keys to her blog) [2]. Max Read of Gawker links to the Lee post at [3]. Ezra Klein has his smears at [4]. His Washington Post colleague Dave Weigel's report (not as bad as the others, for what that's worth) is at [5].
I'd never heard of Mint before a couple days ago when I...
... links and to a few articles from Megan McArdle. While the authors did get some things wrong, those like Glenn Reynolds who try to imply that everything was wrong aren't telling the truth. For instance, the Sam Adams Alliance denies any involvement (peekURL.com/zxbzpjp), but it's still an open question where they get their money from (link).
On more of the "part of the same network" side of...