"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 26th, 2010
Paul on the manufactured NY mosque kerfuffle: The justification to ban the mosque is no more rational than banning a soccer field in the same place because all the suicide bombers loved to play soccer. via Ron Paul to Sunshine Patriots: Stop Your Demagogy About The NYC Mosque! | Ron Paul .com.
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 25th, 2010
Steve Benen points out the obvious: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE STEPS ALL OVER BOEHNER’S MESSAGE…. In his exceedingly silly speech on the economy today, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) proudly proclaimed, “All this ‘stimulus’ spending has gotten us nowhere.” And almost immediately thereafter, the CBO made Boehner look pretty foolish. The oft-criticized stimulus plan boosted [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 24th, 2010
So what’s the choice now? The Obama administration wants to preserve those parts of the original tax cuts that mainly benefit the middle class — which is an expensive proposition in its own right — but to let those provisions benefiting only people with very high incomes expire on schedule. Republicans, with support from some [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 19th, 2010
Now this would be a change I could believe in: Bill Gross, who runs Pacific Investment Management Co.’s $239 billion Total Return Fund, said that policymakers “should quickly re-engineer” a plan that would refinance all non-delinquent mortgages backed by the federal government. The rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged a record-low 4.44 percent in [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 19th, 2010
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak – 8/16/2010 – Keep Looking Up. I hear the same claptrap from people claiming Obama is a commie, socialist, Muslim who doesn’t have a valid US birth certificate. When in truth they don’t know what the first three words mean and are apparently Google impaired. This [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 6th, 2010
The man was in rare form last night, he and his writers are satirical geniuses: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c How to Ruin Same-Sex Marriages www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 6th, 2010
Life is strange for me just lately, a study in contrasts. In many ways I’ve never been happier. I have a loving wife who’s been a source of joy, my personal fountain of warmth and comfort. I’ve never loved someone as much and had it returned by orders of magnitude, freely and gracefully. I feel [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 4th, 2010
Prop 8 Ruled Unconstitutional – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan. Down in flames, appeals sure to follow. This really will need to go to the Supreme Court. The real fear for me is that the Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Kennedy wing of the court will see nothing wrong with enshrining discrimination in a [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 4th, 2010
They’re Not Embarrassed | Video Cafe. Rachel Maddow points out that the GOP is in strident, table pounding opposition to themselves on cap and trade, the health insurance individual mandate, aid to small businesses, a deficit commission and disclosure of corporate campaign donations. The really astounding part is they seem to get a pass on [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 2nd, 2010
FT.com / Reportage – The crisis of middle-class America. When the Financial Times thinks that income distribution and middle class wage stagnation are a problem, I’d say that means it’s a long standing crisis: The slow economic strangulation of the Freemans and millions of other middle-class Americans started long before the Great Recession, which merely [...]
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