BAPB* No. 13: Debt ceiling, college football
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain Looking behind to look ahead This week I read a history lesson for Republicans from a very conservative...
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pshinnok
- Dec 27, 2022
- 4 min
The best politics news of 2022
I’m as bad as anyone (and worse than a lot!) in finding the negative in the world of politics. Last year left me no shortage of...
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pshinnok
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
BAPB* No. 12: Interesting climate news, bad football predictions, the bowl edition!
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain Interesting Climate Reads/Watches This Brookings podcast is one of the best overviews of where we've been...
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pshinnok
- Dec 9, 2022
- 2 min
BAPB* No. 11: Not as bad as you think, missing persons, and football
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain We don't know what those we disagree with are thinking, but it's not as bad as we'd guess. I'm still...
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pshinnok
- Dec 2, 2022
- 3 min
BAPB* No. 10: Disappointment, coming attractions, and football
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain Updated December 8, 2022 for dismal football prediction results Democrats' decisions to force a labor...
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pshinnok
- Nov 18, 2022
- 4 min
BAPB* No. 8: More elections thoughts, more football
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain Updated 11/22/22 with football results Further thoughts on midterm elections Last week I shared some first...
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pshinnok
- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
BAPB No. 7: Quick election takes, football picks
Updated Nov. 17, 2022 for sad football prediction results Pre-final and pre-research election opinions Some of the people have spoken:...
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pshinnok
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
BAPB No. 6: Elections, universal basic income, college football predictions
Updated Nov. 10, 2022 to reveal my continuing failure to accurately predict meaningless things like college football and elections. I...
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pshinnok
- Oct 19, 2022
- 7 min
Would you like to stop worrying about gas prices?
Gas prices are back in the news and things don’t look good, just when they were getting back to normal. In a few days or weeks we’ll...
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pshinnok
- Oct 12, 2022
- 7 min
Stupid predictions N0.2: The Senate flips back to Republican
I love to use math and history to predict the future, no matter how foolhardy. Earlier I predicted a Republican takeover of the US House...
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pshinnok
- Aug 30, 2022
- 6 min
The end of Roe, part 2: the path to a civil war?
Earlier I wrote about how abortion policy after the Supreme Court cancelled the constitutional right to abortion has some parallels to...
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pshinnok
- Aug 2, 2022
- 6 min
Stupid predictions No. 1: Democrats look to lose about 60 House seats this fall
Updated Aug. 25, 2022 to correct previous chart and text that omitted the fact that President Harry Truman lost party control of the...
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pshinnok
- Jul 11, 2022
- 4 min
Inflation: It’s time for Oklahoma’s legislature to help those who need it most
Inflation has returned to the top of American concerns and is getting a lot of attention from officials. In Oklahoma, Governor Kevin...
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pshinnok
- Jun 27, 2022
- 6 min
The end of Roe, part 1: how banning abortion will make states worse off
The Supreme Court seems ready to use Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health to let abortion policy be a state concern. This decision will make...
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pshinnok
- May 11, 2022
- 6 min
Build Back Better, Part 2: A two-step plan for policy that helps most American families
In the political world the last half of 2021 was dominated by President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better proposal. That effort failed, for...
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pshinnok
- Apr 27, 2022
- 7 min
Assault and Batteries? We may never recover the tax dollars we use to lure a new factory
On April 18 Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt announced the state had an opportunity to land a facility that would be a Panasonic electric...
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Paul
- Apr 6, 2022
- 6 min
Four ways we're contributing to and exaggerating our divisions
How we can recognize and restrain simplistic narratives of divided America
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Paul
- Mar 22, 2022
- 5 min
BAPB (Bouncing Around Paul's Brain) No. 3: Another cold war, another attack on public schools
Mar. 22, 2022 What Ukraine means for another cold war Update: On March 28, President Biden presented his (purely advisory) budget for the...
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