I think it's quite a hilarious little piece this one, by David Henderson. I was thinking about blogging on David Henderson and libertarians more generally and their pure cynicism about everything related to the government and I probably still will - my feeling is the arrogance of the position of people like Henderson in their market fundamentalism is incompatible with Christianity which exhorts humility, and emphasises just how fallen the world is. Of course, likely they don't care that it's at odds with a Christ-like witness, but the point of this blog is to try and point out where right wingers are totally at odds with what the Bible tells us.
But back to the article at hand. In it, Henderson quotes a bit by Krugman about how right wingers (conservatives) are unable to actually describe things like a Keynesian, or left-wing position. The funny thing is of course, Henderson says how he thinks this isn't true, and asserts that actually the converse is true. Is this real? It's so schoolyard it's hilarious. It's talking past each other on steroids.
His test of the hypothesis is also quite amusing - read Krugman until you find where he miscategorises a right winger/conservative. That's not really a test of his hypothesis really, is it? There's no checking when right wingers and conservatives get Keynesianism completely and utterly wrong (those are of course ten a penny). It's not really a test at all.
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