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	Mickey Kaus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mickey Kaus is a journalist and author best known form writing Kausfiles, a "mostly political" blog featured on Slate.com.
		Kaus is the author of The End of Equality and had previously worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The New Republic and Washington Monthly.
		Kaus later posted about a 1981 Today Show appearance where Schwarzenegger claimed that he deliberately damaged chimneys in order to boost demand for his bricklaying business, which was another scoop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mickey_Kaus (507 words)

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		Kaus suggests this difficulty is caused by those liberals who "accept the fruits of capitalism while somehow outlawing its less (unequal) pleasing aspects." That's why money liberals typically favor tax and transfer programs; unions and protectionism; production flexibility and specialization; worker ownership and profit sharing; and welfare.
		Kaus recognizes the cost of his program will scare voters and he concedes that promoting it is a "poor way to win elections." Nonetheless, he proclaims that voters will accept the merits of civic liberalism if they vote according to their values, and not their pocketbooks.
		Kaus argues that the community-reinforcing features of the military draft can be applied to other social institutions, such as a national health care, national service, day care, mass transit, and multi-class public spheres.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /gmklass/pos334/archive/kaus.html (2311 words)

	Booknotes
		KAUS: I think I've always felt that people should be equal, but I used to be a left-winger, and I used to think they should be equal in not only the social sense, but in the money sense.
		KAUS: My book is a reaction against a book Kuttner wrote in the early '80s called the "Economic Illusion," which I would say is one of the key works of money liberalism which I'm attacking.
		KAUS: We're going to hear so many names, it's going to be unbelievable, the crush of out-of-work Democrats who are going to be applying for jobs in the Clinton administration.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1114 (8619 words)

	The End of Equality by Mickey Kaus - A Book Review by Scott London
		Mickey Kaus is an editor of the New Republic and a perceptive observer of American class divisions.
		It is the "routine acceptance of `professionals' as a class apart" and the "smug content" of the affluent and educated for the "demographically inferior" that poses the greatest threat to civic life, according to Kaus.
		Kaus believes that the "solidarity-through- check-cashing" strategy, based on the idea that universal receipt of cash government benefits promotes social equality, has been as thoroughly discredited as the notion that distributing money to the poor will somehow end the indignity of poverty.
	www.scottlondon.com /reviews/kaus.html (346 words)

	Kaus Patrol: January 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mickey, we can safely assume, has far too much invested in his Kerry hatred to be turned around by a speech.
		Three issues here: that Kaus thinks "character" is more important in a candidate than, y'know, believing in stuff; that the aforementioned "character" is "the best handle we have to predict how a candidate will actually perform in office"; and that this grand and glorious "character," whatever it is, is something that John Kerry doesn't have.
		Kaus' advocacy of this kind of People-magazine politics amounts to a full-throated statement of solidarity with the kind of knuckle-dragging dipsticks who've done so much to fuck up our country over the past several years.
	www.phenry.org /log/kauspatrol/archives/2004_01.html (1686 words)

	LawMeme - Featured Speaker: Mickey Kaus
		Kaus says he gets paid money because he's part of Slate, which is part of Microsoft, which has a business plan and a whole lot of money, and can afford to spend some on Slate.
		Kaus reports how skeptical he was of Democratic complaints during the 2000 recount--until he received personal emails from actual voters in Florida about their problems with voting.
		Kaus does think that blogs are in part the antidote to cocooning, as opposed to a contributing factor.
	research.yale.edu /lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=569 (1986 words)

	Kaus Patrol: October 2003 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kaus almost always appears to choose his targets based on the fact that he dislikes them personally rather than on any substantive points of contention; conversely, people he likes get the same fawning treatment that George W. Bush received in 2000 from the "reporters" on his plane.
		I spend a lot of time calling Kaus a right-wing tool, but when he actually bothers to enunciate a belief, which isn't often, it's typically in line with what he claims to be and probably believes he is: centrist and reasonably mainstream.
		Kaus' obsession with the Daniel Weintraub affair is an outgrowth of his obsession with the Cruz Bustamante/MEChA non-scandal, which in turn is part and parcel of his all-consuming obsession with the California recall election, with which he's been torturing innocent Slate readers for months.
	www.phenry.org /log/kauspatrol/archives/2003_10.html (1338 words)

	07/10/02 -Our Man at Slate?
		Mickey Kaus might be the best of the bloggers and he's increasingly outspoken on the side of immigration realism.
		In contrast, Mickey, a veteran professional journalist who started his KausFiles blog a couple of years ago, is eminently non-hysterical and non-hate-filled.
		Kaus doesn't subscribe to Kinsley's notion that the only clever response to immigration is elegant ennui.
	www.vdare.com /sailer/our_man_at_slate.htm (1139 words)

	Last Day of My Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Slate blogger Mickey Kaus (in his usual sloppy style) wrote this.
		There is only one problem with Kaus and Chambliss attacking Kerry for a "32-year history of voting to cut defense programs and cut defense systems." Kerry hasn't been in the Senate 32 years.
		Kaus does this all the time on his blog.
	sullivan40.diaryland.com /kaushack.html (304 words)

	Golden State: Memo to Mickey Kaus: Maybe it's NOT Interesting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Slate’s blogger Mickey Kaus, ever on the hunt for fascinating, compelling L.A. slice-of-life stories that the Los Angeles Times deliberately (according to him) ignores, settles on the arrest of a famed Hollywood director for soliciting sex from an undercover vice cop while in drag.
		Mickey speculates that this item was buried with two sentences on page B4 because it was "too interesting!" (The phrase is a verbal tic of his LAT criticism.)
		Kaus may not have noticed that the NYDN had to pad its story out with generic disclaimers from the LAPD, mention of the unavailability of Tamahori’s lawyer for comment (Mark Geragos, zzzzzz), and gratuitous references to the sex arrests of Eddie Murphy and Hugh Grant.
	goldenstateblog.latimes.com /goldenstate/2006/02/memo_to_mickey_.html (1329 words)

	Making the Case: Has Welfare Reform Worked? Yes, smashingly ... by Mickey Kaus (printable version)
		Kaus is 100 percent correct that Americans believe in work, but Americans also believe that people should be economically better off when they work.
		I agree with Kaus that child care, health insurance, and increases in the minimum wage are all very important.
		Kaus' innuendo that food stamps go to "never-married mothers who stay home watching 'Jerry Springer,'" or that relaxing TANF time limits lets them off the hook, is facetious and misleading.
	www.dlc.org /print.cfm?contentid=250083 (1124 words)

	Lawyers, Guns and Money: Last Kaus this Week
		Mickey is trying to correct the impression that he just doesn't like homosexuals:
		Sexual preference, you see, is genetic, and Mickey is a confirmed, genetically determined heterosexual, meaning that he can't enjoy a movie in which men have sex with one another.
		Mickey has been quite specific, though; he doesn't want to see it because it's a gay film, and thinks it will fail commercially for the same reason.
	lefarkins.blogspot.com /2005/12/last-kaus-this-week.html (545 words)

	Bag and Baggage - Denise Howell, appellate and intellectual property lawyer
		Highlights from Mickey Kaus' talk: The question "Is that enough to go with?" is not an issue for the blogger.
		Mickey feels comfortable engaging in rampant speculation, knowing that he will be corrected very quickly and that he has the ability to flip completely if appropriate.
		Mickey, when operating as an unpaid blogger, was quoted $20k for libel insurance (Glenn Reynolds pays much less under a rider on his homeowner's policy).
	bgbg.blogspot.com /2002_11_17_bgbg_archive.html (3836 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The End of Equality, by Mickey Kaus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mickey Kaus's new book of social policy, The End of Equality, has become a testament for Democrats who have seen tragic follies committed in their name and who now seek new governing strategies.
		...Kaus first mounts a savage criticism of such liberal icons as income-redistribution programs, labor unions, and a welfare system which exerts no demands on its recipients and destroys them in the process...
		...Focused as he is on enlarging and empowering government, Kaus has not a word to say about the minimum wage, whose reduction would allow the private sector to take the risk of employing ill-trained members of the underclass...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V94I6P55-1.htm (2367 words)

	Busy, Busy, Busy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rewind to June 2001, when Agriculture Dept. undersecretary Eric Bost told a House committee that he was troubled by the fact that a great many people who were eligible for food stamps were not receiving them, and outlined his plans to simplify the application process and reduce erroneous rejections of food stamp applications.
		I think that Mickey Kaus is the journalistic equivalent of a Trojan horse, with a shtick designed to penetrate enemy defenses by masquerading as a liberal while spreading conservative memes (in this case the fear of a moral hazard).
		And I don't know whether Kaus is a hustler, a true believer or both, but there is one thing I know for sure: Mickey Kaus is an imposter.
	www.busybusybusy.com /b3_arc_02_0819.shtml (1091 words)

	LIBERTY BELLES » Mickey Kaus: The Need for “Social Equality”
		Via Bloggingheads.tv, Slate columnist Mickey Kaus squares off against his co-host Robert Wright on the subject of income inequality.
		Mickey’s position is that the Left’s crusade to achieve income equality is a lost cause because “money inequality” is not the product of political choice, but is instead caused by “deep underlying economic trends” in the world economy that aren’t about to regress.
		David, I think Mickey’s idea of a National Service draft is more along the lines of something like the Peace Corps - though I’m sure the military would be an option for interested parties.
	toughlove.catallarchy.net /blog/2006/02/01/mickey-kaus-the-need-for-social-equality (779 words)

	On the Media
		MICKEY KAUS: Well, the most prominent would be the New York Times' Thomas Friedman who was pretty hawkish.
		MICKEY KAUS: The basic event that's led people to change their tune is the difficulty of getting approval from the Security Council, and the evident unpopularity of the American position, not just in the Security Council but in popular opinion around the world which is part of what's driving the Security Council.
		MICKEY KAUS: I think basically everybody is sincerely trying to make up their minds.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_031403_second.html (1006 words)

	Mickey Kaus
		Mickey Kaus, who I assumed was a thoroughly secular intellectual, is a closeted Orthodox Jew and a devout follower of the Mussar (19th Century ethics) movement.
		Mickey sways back and forth, gripping the table, humming an Eastern European melody, to show me how he writes his blog.
		When Reb Kaus is satisfied that he has made himself perfectly clear to me, he runs after the activist, and with his handkerchief, mops the sweat from the man's brow, saying gently and affectionately, "Very well, you're angry at me. But you are perspiring.
	www.lukeford.net /profiles/profiles/mickey_kaus.htm (1290 words)

	L.A. Observed: LA Mag parses Mickey Kaus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kaus says it's not that he likes the conservatives who run things now, it's just they are outside his universe.
		Kaus hanging with the bloggers is a little like Eddie Vedder moving to Williamsburg and joining an underground punk band.
		Of course the $64 question is whether Mickey really believes that crap about dems having more potential than repubs, or whether he's holding on to a few last scraps of denial out of conceit and a desire for social standing.
	www.laobserved.com /archive/000363.html (928 words)

	Sensible Mom: Mickey Kaus On Exit Polls
		Mickey Kaus had this to say about the exit polls:
		Update: Mickey Kaus has added more information about the exit polls called "Exit Poll Smoking Gun II".
		Kaus also notes Fox's frustration with the exit polls.
	sensiblemom.blogspot.com /2005/01/mickey-kaus-on-exit-polls.html (656 words)

	The Washington Monthly
		Kaus is no surprise, but Noah is tedious, Sullentrop is a smirking jackass, and Saletan is just toxic.
		It is time for Mickey Kaus to come out of the closet as a right wing republican.
		The problem with Kaus is not his failure to "tow (sic) the party line every moment," it's the fact that he has seemingly never written a positive word about a Democrat.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2004_07/004400.php (4966 words)

	DLC: Making the Case: Has Welfare Reform Worked? Yes, smashingly ... by Mickey Kaus
		Mickey Kaus seems to have forgotten these provisions.
		Food stamps, like child care assistance and Medicaid, are a way to supplement a family's earnings so that working poor families can escape poverty.
		Kaus fails to mention that close to 39 percent of food stamps go to households where all of the adults are either elderly or disabled, and that of recipient households with an able-bodied, non-elderly adult, most are either subject to the work requirements or are working.
	www.dlc.org /ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=250083&kaid=114&subid=143 (1141 words)

	ParaPundit: Mickey Kaus On The Unified Rumsfeld Critique
		ParaPundit: Mickey Kaus On The Unified Rumsfeld Critique
		Mickey Kaus distills down the core argument for what was wrong with the way the United States fought the war in Iraq.
		Mickey is right in arguing that the symbolic losses like the burned up Islamic documents will be remembered for a long time.
	www.parapundit.com /archives/001177.html (2651 words)

	Roger L. Simon: Kaus Deconstructed
		The Soviet Union, a relatively conventional state, preferred to attack us around the margins and was, logically, afraid to bomb the US in the era of "mutually assured destruction." Al Qaeda, as it has already proven sufficiently, is an aggregation of religious fanatics and could care less.
		Kaus has pegged himself into a position similar to those Japanese soldiers found in the Philippine mountains a decade or so ago, still fighting WWII and utterly unable to give it up.
		Kaus points out that Democrats were in charge some of those Cold War years.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2006/02/kaus_disconstru.php (1956 words)

	Letter from Gotham
		In his original post, Mickey Kaus said that the NY Times was engaging in shameless "Bush-bashing overkill," and, as evidence offered the example of two op-eds, by Kristof and Krugman, whose charges, he claims "cancel each other out" in part.
		In his original post, Kaus juxtaposed an exact quote from Kristof with a partial quote from Krugman--in fact, a sentence fragment from which it was impossible to figure out the meaning of the original context, and furthermore precedes that sentence fragment with the highly misleading adjective "unjustified":
		Mickey Kaus states that a headline the Times ran for its article about the Senate hearings: "Experts Warn of High Risk for American Invasion of Iraq" -- certainly fits with the theory (propounded by Andrew Sullivan and others) that the NYT is on an anti-war jag."
	letterfromgotham.blogspot.com /2002_07_28_letterfromgotham_archive.html (5306 words)

	BloggingHeads.tv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The context of my remark was the overarching question of why Mickey chooses to associate with a woman who practices McCarthyism and, more generally, makes a living by saying vile, indefensible things.
		The "equilibrium" between the two democratic branches is supposed to be set in the statute itself, no? But I never understood Youngstown, even in law school. In any case, Alito's endorsement of the Jackson approach, while it leaves a loophole, doesn't appear to be an atypically pro-executive position.
		For the record: After announcing near the outset of this video that in it Mickey and I were experimenting with a format "we call the diavlog" I got around to actually googling "diavlog" and got two hits.
	bloggingheads.tv /?id=38&tid=61 (2787 words)

	Gojomo: Mickey Kaus: yes on 77, California's anti-gerrymandering initiative
		Mickey Kaus has written a detailed case for proposition 77, the California initiative which aims to put some checks on gerrymandering.
		I'm going to vote for Proposition 77, which would try to end gerrymandering in California by giving the job of drawing district lines to a panel of retired judges.
		Mickey Kaus sees NYC and DC clearly, from LA
	gojomo.blogspot.com /2005/11/mickey-kaus-yes-on-77-californias-anti.html (624 words)

	Andrew Sullivan \| The Daily Dish: Mickey Digs Deeper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His first instinct in December, before even seeing "Brokeback Mountain," was to predict its doom at the box office; he then valiantly kept hoping the movie would fail.
		Mickey is the odd one out here - not that there's anything wrong with that.
		Here's Mickey's take on why Brokeback is still a good, straight date movie, despite its being about those people...
	time.blogs.com /daily_dish/2006/01/mickey_digs_dee.html (540 words)

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