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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.
Category Archives: economic stimulus
The Obama You Say You Voted For
I know, I know. He makes too many speeches and somehow also doesn’t use the bully pulpit enough. But this is what the people who call themselves “the base” say they want: fighting Obama. He’s not new, either, but was … Continue reading
Companies Hoarding Cash
The supply-side gospel is dead — profoundly, utterly debunked by empirical reality — but refuses to shut up. Not only are the wealthiest Americans hoarding trillions of dollars rather than investing, Nonfinancial companies are sitting on $1.8 trillion in cash, … Continue reading
Driving the Left to Distraction
Remember that budget panel? WASHINGTON (AP); The Senate has rejected a plan backed by President Barack Obama to create a bipartisan task force to tackle the deficit this year. The special deficit panel would have attempted to produce a plan … Continue reading
11-Dimensional Stimulus Chess
The Hill reports Obama challenged the GOP to stop scaring Americans with Faux Noise, and the GOP reacted by pledging a united opposition to any new stimulus spending. Obama has governors, a Congressional majority, and economists on his side. The … Continue reading
It’s the Teachers, Stupid
Think of your most recent purchase. Whatever it was, I invite you to sit down and calculate exactly how many jobs you supported or created. Too hard? Then pity the poor bean-counters who had to update the White House stimulus … Continue reading
Gault Joins Stimulus Consensus
Not only are House Black Caucus members demanding more job creation, so are economists, including one ironcally named Gault: (W)ith roughly a quarter of the stimulus money out the door after nine months, the accumulation of hard data and real-life … Continue reading
Green Stimulus
This is how you convert to a green economy in a red state: TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas launched a new energy efficiency program Tuesday to make low-interest loans available to several thousand home owners and small businesses for upgrading insulation, … Continue reading
Stimulus Economics
Last time you went shopping, how many jobs did you create? You have no way of knowing how your dollar turned up, or with whom, or what they did with it. But as Obama’s stimulus jobs report comes out today, … Continue reading
Stimulus Is Working, Opponents Shifting
A Rupert Murdoch newspaper says the stimulus is working. From the Wall Street Journal: Economists say the money out the door — combined with the expectation of additional funds flowing soon — is fueling growth above where it would have … Continue reading
Cash for Clunkers
Cash for Clunkers has succeeded brilliantly: (T)he administration needed to put a halt to the program to avoid surpassing the $3 billion funding level. Consumers were on pace to exhaust the program’s coffers in early September and dealers have complained … Continue reading
GM to Rehire Workers
It’s a Christmas miracle! General Motors is calling people back to work: DETROIT (AP) — Higher sales, in part from the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, are spurring General Motors Co. to boost production at several of its factories. The … Continue reading
