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Mickey Kaus has written for Slate.com, The New Republic, Harper’s, The Washington Monthly, Daily Caller and other publications.  In 2010 he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in the Democratic primary.

He is author of The End of Equality, published in 1992, which is about how to be a liberal when the gap between rich and poor is growing and “no one knows how to stop it.”

He started Kausfiles in 1999.

Email: Mickey_Kaus@msn.com

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  1. Big Maq
    View March 20, 2015

    Mickey. Too bad you left the DC. Been following your column there for some time. Don’t always agree, but it had a well articulated perspective.

    Read your article about FOX News. I don’t disagree about the influence that the network has, and that it has been relatively light on the issue of immigration.

    That said, at the Gang of Eight time, you present FOX’s coverage as proof of an agenda. However, at that time, Rush and Mark Levin were also giving Rubio light treatment, and holding back on their hardball questions.

    I cannot ascribe to FOX news the motivation and present this as part of my case, as you do, unless I can connect Rush and Levin to that.

    They seem to have enough independence that they surely would have gone after Rubio if they thought they needed to. Instead, I think Rubio had enough conservative credibility at the time that they “heard him out”.

    Good luck,
    BM

  2. WJ
    View March 20, 2015

    Murdock has expressed his support for amnesty. It is not hard to see how that would trickle down to their talking heads -Kelly , O’reilly, Krauthammer. It is not a lock step stance since I did hear Hannity take on a pro illegal immigration attorney on his radio show yesterday.

    I rarely watch Fox anymore since they have essentially adopted the Wall Street Journal statist viewpoint.

  3. mb
    View March 21, 2015

    RSS feed please!

  4. Mike Gordon
    View March 24, 2015

    The Twitter + blog format is a crazy idea that’s working. Keep going.

  5. Zander Dell Raines
    View August 7, 2015

    DISABLED SENIOR ADULT COUPLE URGENTLY NEEDING HELP!!!

    My name is Zander Dell Raines (63), and my wife’s name is Carol Jo Raines (58), and we are both disabled. We have worked hard and paid our taxes all of our lives. My wife Carol and I have had a rough time for the past few years, health-wise and financially. We have tried repeatedly to get help for our situation.

    Over 2 years ago, we applied for a program called KEEP YOUR TENNESSEE HOME. We have been on the list until the first of this year, when we were told they had run out of money.

    Next we tried the REVERSE MORTGAGE program. Although I am 63, we could not qualify for this program as my wife is only 58.

    I have just received a foreclosure notice on our house. I will need to give you some background so you can better understand how we got to our present situation.

    In 2008, I fell victim to a disease called MRSA. I would suffer 3 attacks of MRSA over the next 2 years. One would disable me for several days. One would require surgery. One would hospitalize me and nearly kill me. This left me unable to work and on Social Security Disability.

    About 30 years ago, Carol came to a halt at a stop sign, but the car behind her did not. Since that time, she has had over 10 knee surgeries, including 2 total knee replacements. She has been unable to work since, December, 2013.

    In 2012, we took in a little boy named Odie Lackey. He was 2 years old at the time. His parents are drug addicts and are both in jail. Odie is 5 years old and we are in the process of getting legal custody of him as there is no one else to care for him.

    My wife applied for SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY over 2 years ago and we are now waiting to hear from a federal judge on this matter. If all goes as our lawyer says, my wife should get her disability then and possibly 2 years back pay which should be more than enough to clear up our finances. The problem here is it looks like WELLS FARGO, and the foreclosure lawyers are not willing to wait that long.

    Our mortgage holder, Wells Fargo, has just notified us that they are about to begin the foreclosure process on our property. As you can see, we have had a few rough years and desperately need help. Any other advice or help you can give us in this matter would be deeply appreciated. Is there any way that we can get help on this? Please keep us in your prayers.

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  6. urbanleftbehind
    View October 22, 2015

    Iowans being Iowans again – ufff – http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ben-carson-just-topped-donald-122045107.html

  7. Jay Bergman
    View January 27, 2016

    Mr. Kaus:

    You are truly sui generis among opinion journalists. I admire your idiosyncratic postings — as does, by the way, the finest opinion journalist in America, Charles Krauthammer. You are not slavishly beholden to any ideology or political party.

    With respect and best wishes,

    Jay Bergman
    Professor of History
    Central CT State University
    New Britain

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    View February 10, 2016

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  9. wb
    View June 17, 2016

    Infectious dieses and viruses concern me, when they are not identified. Virus’s all share common variables, contact rate, population (susceptible population + infected population), infectivity rate and average duration of infectivity.
    In the diagram below is simple model of the flu which excludes anyone from dying. For this we have 1000 people with one person infected at time 0. We have avg contact rate of 6 people per day, infectivity rate of 25% and average duration of illness of 3 days. As you can see from the model this reaches its peak around day 7. I want everyone to understand this basic model so we can understand the dynamics of a virus.
    Islamic terrorism needs to be treated as a virus. We know that Muslim population is the susceptible population. We know very little about this virus, what is the contact rate, what is the infectivity rate? What is the average duration of infectivity before they commit a terrorist act? Is it a good idea to increase the susceptible population to fight this virus? Do travel bans and quarantines help prevent outbreaks? It’s time we treat Islamic terrorism for what it is a “virus”.
    Looks like I was unable to post diagram

  10. Jim Fair
    View July 7, 2016

    Wouldn’t Jim Webb be a good running mate for Trump? He would appeal to many Democrats, has experience in both Congress and the executive branch, and has a Jacksonian political philosophy suited to the moment.

  11. Laurie Longtine
    View August 4, 2016

    Mr. Kraus, I live in Ryan’s district. There is nothing I’d like more than to get rid of his smug, smirky self. However, I think you’re irresponsible in suggesting that we cross over to vote for his primary challenger. I posted the following in the comments section. I’m sending this here so that you are sure to see it. You obviously know a lot about politics, but don’t know much about Ryan’s district and Wisconsin voting policies. Please unrecommend this. Thank you.

    Laurie Longtine · University of Minnesota
    This is a very bad idea for lots of reasons. I’m really disappointed in this author for suggesting it, in a national blog no less. 1. If the Republicans screwed around in Dem primaries, we’d be angry and feeling (correctly so) that it was unethical. 2. The teapotty challenger is kookier than Ryan and you wouldn’t want to take any chance that he might actually beat Ryan. 3. There are a lot of Republicans in Ryan’s district — enought to protect him in the primary and the general–this is a waste of your vote. 4. You can’t vote both Dem and Republican in a primary–Russ Feingold has a Dem challenger who’s not a real Dem. (God ‘told’ him to run!) Your vote is more greatly needed on the Dem side.

  12. Laurence A. Jarvik
    View October 20, 2016

    Please add me to your email list…
    Larry

  13. Kevin Coe
    View November 11, 2016

    I was a teenage Republican. I read “The End of Equality” as a requisite for a Social Relations class at Michigan State’s James Madison College. I have to say that this book was key in reshaping my view of the political landscape in post-modern America, and helped me to see the problems we face as a nation, beyond the partisan lines that the Power Elite use to pigeon-hole our public discourse. It is a must-read for anyone who is open-minded enough (or more importantly, not open-minded enough) to see beyond the letters R and D on an election ballot.

  14. Change My Vote
    View February 9, 2017

    Did you miss your chance to vote this election cycle? Would you change your vote or is it the same today?

    Did you vote based on erroneous, misleading, missing, or mis-prioritized information?

    Did you know about Russian hacking? Were you overly worried about e-mails? Do you believe in tax return transparency? Did rigged elections get you to vote? Is the president exceeding your expectations? Are presidential policies great for the country?

    If you could vote today, knowing what you do now, who would you vote for, and would it make a difference?

    Check out http://ChangeMyVote.us to see.

  15. Ariesusduabelas
    View April 21, 2017

    This blog idea is rare. Connected to Twitter’s feed. But I like it. Keep update.

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    View June 22, 2017

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  17. chris long
    View August 19, 2017

    Never heard of you.

  18. Jessica
    View September 6, 2017

    I thought The moment yesterday on to the point when you said ” well it’s the same reason he wouldn’t give help to mothers on welfare – you wouldn’t want to encourage more mothers to go on welfare” as an analogy for DACA was truly priceless. It showed your true colors – Basically, there should be no quarter for compassion or empathy you when it comes to mothers, children, the poor, immigrants – basically anyone who is voiceless in our society. It’s very telling that you didn’t use an analogy for white men. If an aging white male baby boomer comes into the ER with a heart attack, can we say ” wow I would love to help you, but that would just validate your lifetime of poor diet and exercise habits and could serve as a dangerous example for your contemporaries”. I truly hope that you when you are in a jam some day, you will be treated with the same lack of compassion that you show others.

  19. JSB
    View November 2, 2017

    Laura Ingraham: anti-immigration, devout Catholic. But Church’s official position – very-pro immigrant, verging on open borders. She should have bishop tasked with lobbying for immigration (from the US Catholic Conference of Bishops) on her Fox show. That would be worth watching!

  20. Greg M. Green
    View May 15, 2018

    I was a teenage Republican. I read “The End of Equality” as a requisite for a Social Relations class at Michigan State’s James Madison College. I have to say that this book was key in reshaping my view of the political landscape in post-modern America, and helped me to see the problems we face as a nation, beyond the partisan lines that the Power Elite use to pigeon-hole our public discourse. It is a must-read for anyone who is open-minded enough (or more importantly, not open-minded enough) to see beyond the letters R and D on an election ballot.

  21. mikael
    View November 16, 2018

    Pickups from posts- Tiny doesn,t represent the losers in the world, just himself – the Biggest Loser! And nobody wants that stupid wall! There is No money for it. If Doofus wants it, let him start cashing in ,his (Russian mafiya,s) properties and he can start assembling some ,building blocks down there – oops, as long as it raining and his toupee gets wet. And no one tweets, except pubescent girls! Blue Wave!

  22. Jim Fair
    View March 29, 2019

    Getting tired of tweets so cryptic or mysterious that I have to do research to figure out what you’re talking about.

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    View April 24, 2019

    When I initially left a comment I seem to have clicked on the -Notify
    me when new comments are added- checkbox and from now on whenever a comment is added I
    receive four emails with the exact same comment. Perhaps there is a way you can remove me
    from that service? Appreciate it!

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    View June 2, 2019

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    View June 26, 2019

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    View April 8, 2020

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  33. Johnny Febrile
    View April 8, 2020

    JFC, Mickey, you needto open your eyes to the hysteria you are perpetuating. Closing the borders to illegal immigration is not going to matter one whit after the US economy is destroyed. And all to prevent people in hospice from dying. I never saw you as such a neurotic, selfish fucker. But here we are.

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    View April 14, 2020

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    View May 13, 2020

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    View May 24, 2020

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  37. Ernest Sambucini
    View June 13, 2020

    Listened to you and Robert Wright this morning and enjoyed it very much. I cannot find where to subscribe to your newsletter.
    I hope you catch up to Wright’s newsletter. You seem much more enjoyable . Stay safe and well

  38. Rodger Citron
    View June 14, 2020

    Hey Mickey, if you’re a Dock Ellis fan, I thought you might like this article that I wrote in 2008 after he passed: http://hnn.us/articles/58622.html

  39. William Montgomery
    View July 21, 2020

    There is another howler (dressed up as a study result) in the Lepore article. She states that a study shows that life expectancy for Buffalo cops (because of all the stress) is 22 years shorter than the average male. Really? That is twice as much as a lifetime of smoking. How long are cops even cops? 25 years? 30 years tops. It just isn’t possible or credible even.

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  41. Paul A. Mapes
    View October 20, 2020

    Why no more postings from Mickey?

  42. Cops To Prison
    View October 31, 2020

    Have you noticed Republicans coming up dry at the old crime well, among white voters, and in swing states, in the 2020 election?

    Thought leaders like Ann Coulter say this must be because the media didn’t report the riots or events of the summer, so nobody knew about them. LOL. Here is the true timeline of the destruction of the Republican Party.

    After a 2011 Supreme Court ruling said they could, crooked prosecutors like Republican Phil Archer could not resist the temptation to use lies to convict the innocent, to appear to be successfully “tough on crime”, and put over a fraud on the gullible, crime-oriented Republican voter. Knowing how much Republicans hate juries, prosecutors said hey I can just lie and hide evidence and trick the jury and get any result I want. And there is no consequence, no penalty for lying, but only a reward when the voters see me locking up lowlifes. I can use this cheap scam to win votes, I can create fake villains and lock them up, and Republican voters will love me for torturing their neighbors with lies.

    And scumbags like Phil Archer were right, it worked for a time, people are dumb suckers who will torture and believe any blood libel about their fellow citizens. Especially with mugshots all over the Internet, people had no problem believing their neighbors were worthless untermenschen who deserved their own torture, based on nothing but accusations.

    But people whose family members experience unredressed injustice at the hands of their government, have extremely long memories as politics go, and greater passion than voters on any other issue. As the numbers added up over the years, the justice system became hated by the people it was supposed to protect, when too many of their friends and family members got firsthand experience and became victims of it. Even the victims of crimes do not like to be lied to, or to torture random people, quite so much as Republican prosecutors and their voters like lying and torturing random people.

    Used-car salesmen like Republican Phil Archer spent the credibility of the justice system recklessly, for their own self promotion in a party of naive geeky idealists. The justice system came to be associated with cynical, sociopathic prosecutors, coerced lies, and hidden evidence. The crime well was poisoned for the white voter, and Republicans can never go back to it again. It is the end of the road for something that fed the party for 50 years.

    White suburban voters wanted criminals locked up. Instead, Republican prosecutors delivered a carnival scam, using lies to lock up the innocent thinking it would excite Republican voters. That is how dumb prosecutors like Phil Archer think you are, that is how simple is his take on the ideals and values of Republican philosophy. Maybe, but if so, it is nevertheless doomed to failure in a democracy, by any party dumb enough to believe it. Thanks to this brilliant strategy, white suburban voters all over the country are running to Democrats, even half dead ones, even as their neighborhoods are burned by agitators. This for ignoring our better sense about government and human nature, and the lessons of history, to invest a utopian trust in police and prosecutors.

    Even the great Sheriff Grady Judd is a fraud. He said he would have had the George Floyd cops in his jail by sundown. Before he knew the facts. When in reality, there are no video cameras in Polk County, nor body cams nor dash cams, and Grady Judd does not want them. And then he tried to boost the reputation of police, by trying a murder case in the media, inciting a mob against a defendant based on hearsay, and putting great pressure on police and witnesses and even jurors to not contradict his narrative. That is not trial by jury, that is a Roman trial.

    When I put up the websites seminolescamDOTcom and cops2prisonDOTorg, my intention was never to prove Republicans are scumbags. My intention was to elucidate major credibility issues in the justice system. Discovering that my fellow Republicans are, in fact, scumbags on criminal justice issues, and proving it, has been very disappointing.

    I don’t think Republican politicians want to be scumbags, I think they are idealists. But they have unintentionally cut themselves off from reality. For example, there is this hero Republican prosecutor Phil Archer whose standard business is to use lies to get convictions. Many common Republicans knowingly support that. But the sort of philosophical intellectual idealists of the Republican Party have sealed themselves off from simple facts like this. How have they sealed themselves off?

    The first step, is Republicans have a preconception of anyone who stands up for the Bill of Rights, or echoes the common historical judicial grievances of the Declaration of Independence, as coming from the discredited “rehabilitation and root causes” movement in the 1970’s. The second step is Republicans have a preconception of anyone who complains about police misconduct as being a race hustler, like in Ferguson. Republicans miss that the recent anti-police movement is mainly white people, and it is genuine grassroots. Republicans think it is Soros astroturf.

    The third step is assigning a branch of government, an institution for the regulation of police and prosecutors, and then rejecting the legitimacy of that branch of government. So that there is no regulation of police and prosecutors. And then making the disastrous political mistake, of aligning themselves with a group of armed government employees who are unregulated, who pay no price for victimizing the innocent. Americans have always rebelled against that sort of thing. Nobody sailed across the ocean to find more police.

    Anyone knows there is no independent institution in the executive branch to investigate and prosecute police, and deter police misconduct. By design, it is the job of those accused of crimes to investigate police misconduct. The FDLE specifically told me it is the job of private defense attorneys to prosecute police when they break the law. So Republicans intentionally turned regulation over to criminals. They then said there is no need for regulation, because all the complaints come from criminals, and we will never believe them.

    In her book “The War on Cops” Heather Mcdonald characterized this designed, intended part of the criminal justice system – the only monitor, the only check on police and prosecutor misconduct – as a war. By doing so, she declared war on anyone who complains about police misconduct, and their families and sympathizers.

    So Heather Mcdonald effectively declared a war by police and their supporters, their worship cult, on the general public. As if the general public is not a legitimate participant! As if the general public is more corruptible, and the government is less corruptible! And she said that Republicans have a moral mandate to ignore allegations of police misconduct, to insulate police from any consequences of wrongdoing, to save lives.

    It took literally only a few years for this book to infect all departments around the country, and create a war between the police and the citizens. And when Republicans align themselves with police, who do you think is going to win in a democracy? And it was also only a few years after Connick v Thompson interpreted the archaic rights of the King of England in the broadest possible way in 2011, that prosecutors were emboldened that there could never be any penalty for victimizing the innocent, and many gullible Republicans would reward them.

    So Republicans have no idea the justice system they defend reflexively is evil garbage. It is enabled to be garbage specifically because they defend it reflexively, like parrots. And they have no idea what hit them.

    Republicans need to take this issue of corruption and gaming the rules in the criminal justice system, this albatross which they have a reputation of being in support of, off the table as an issue in elections, by fixing it, so they can get back in power for all that is good. Republicans should try again being the party of freedom and limited government, instead of a utopian worship cult of fraudulent police and prosecutors.

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  45. John Page
    View 8 months ago

    You cite pieces that have some variation on the recent excerpt, “To give voters a deeper and more accurate picture of her views …”. These comments seem to assume that she has developed and internalized views of the three branches of government, the role of the US government in the US economy, the role of the US in the world, etc. IMHO she has no such views; certainly you have discussed these and other topics with people who have no coherence in their opinions. KH wants to be elected. Her stated views are whatever she thinks or is told that she should express to get elected. “Freedom” is a difficult concept to nail down in a world where individual actions can affect others, but it is a perfect politician word when they don’t have to connect the dots and explain their tradeoffs. Her hope is that voters can create whatever picture they desire of something that doesn’t exist.

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