The Republican controlled House and Senate has been largely busy passing bills in the few days left in 2016. This particular one caught my eye. Michigan had put in place a new Unemployment System (Michigan Data Automated System or MiDAS) to help in detecting unemployment fraud. With the passage of Senate Bill 1008 by the […]
A Leading Intellectual according to Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and founder of the Alt-Right, Richard Spencer “We won . . . .” I am playing the entire newscast rather than just the abbreviated version of the speech which is popping up all over. Sorry about the commercial. This took place at Texas A&M at […]
For those of you who may have missed it, Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) is Pres. Trump’s pick to be the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Price is an Orthopedic Surgeon (former?) and has been in the House for 12 years now and a member of the Congressional Healthcare Caucus. It appears […]
Teabagger and maybe Trump nominee for something (hopefully other than the Sec. of the VA), Sarah Palin slams Trump and Pence in a Randian manner on bailing out Carrier and Carrier workers calling it as an intrusion on free enterprise. Afterwards she gushes; “I am ecstatic for Carrier employees! Their bosses just decided to keep […]
I had an interesting web experience. My tweet noting that the US Treasury made a profit on TARP got a relatively large number of replies. Many people were outraged in many contradictory ways. Twitter is damaging the discussion. Trump on twitter lowered the level of debate. I am now a carrier of Twitteritis into the […]
Via Bill Black at Naked Capitalism and Thomas Frank at the Guardian. What we need to focus on now is the obvious question: what the hell went wrong? What species of cluelessness guided our Democratic leaders as they went about losing what they told us was the most important election of our lifetimes?
David Axelrod ✔@davidaxelrod Now Ds who were savaging Comey a few days ago will praise him & GOPers who were behind him will turn on him again. http://wapo.st/2fpVRCL 3:38 PM – 6 Nov 2016 Um … no. No. No: Mark Harris ✔@MarkHarrisNYC “HEY EVERYONE THERE MAY BE A FIRE I’LL CHECK HEY EVERYONE I CHECKED NO […]
The people familiar with the investigation said that senior officials had been informed weeks earlier that a computer belonging to former congressman Anthony Weiner, D-New York, contained emails potentially pertinent to the Clinton investigation. Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, shared the computer with her husband, from whom she is now separated. …. It is unclear what FBI […]
by New Deal democrat The 2016 election economy: the “Bread and Peace” model final forecast One of the election forecasts I have referred to frequently for the last year is the “Bread and Peace” model by Professor Douglas Hibbs. Hibbs himself has not published any forecasts for this election, but the result forecast by his […]
Sari Horwitz and Ellen Nakashima at the Washington Post report Senior FBI officials were informed about the discovery of new emails potentially relevant to the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server at least two weeks before Director James B. Comey notified Congress, according to federal officials familiar with the investigation. The officials said that […]