It seems fitting to post this resurrection story on Easter Sunday. The reanimated corpse of Reagan’s Star Wars program walks among us again. As a national security program, it was stupid then and it’s stupid now. It’s back because billionaires have figured out how to repurpose it to shovel more of your tax dollars into […]
RFK Jr has gotten a lot of media coverage posing as a transformative advocate for child health. And yet on a genuine issue of child health . . . crickets. “Mere hours after birth, most newborns are tested for two things: whether they have signs of hearing loss and whether they have any of a […]
It could be there was little the administration could do for the student known as Mohsen Mahdawi. After reading both articles (one at the end also), it appears the administration felt more comfortable in watching and doing nothing. Read on . . . “Emails Show Mohsen Mahdawi Pleaded with Columbia for Protection for Months Before […]
And the billionaire grift goes on and on. “One of the most important stories in some time came out two days ago. But with so much else going it didn’t get quite as much attention as it should have. It’s from ProPublica. And it’s about a Peter Thiel-backed start up called Ramp. It’s a corporate […]
The simplest answer to this dilemma being they have the weakest political clout. All it would take is a large turnout of Low Income citizens to defeat Republicans. There were 50 million voters who were make <$50,000 annually who turned out in 2020. I guess the question then, is why don’t they have a larger […]
While President Trump has taken an array of unconstitutional actions to consolidate power and to stifle dissent. It remains to be seen if any of this will hold up in Congress and also in the Courts. The later being the most active in blocking Trump’s actions. The question here is whether the nation really needs […]
“Small town vs big city economics,” The one-handed economist How do the small rural communities still manage to exist with decent living conditions? Take for example any small rural village in a country such as Bulgaria or Croatia or South Africa with around 1,000 people. People there are working, have/self-supplied food, water, sanitation facilities, a […]
You may have read that the Trump so-called “antisemitism taskforce” recently sent a letter to Harvard effectively demanding management control over the University. Unlike any other university, Harvard publicly refused to comply. Now, the taskforce says the letter was sent by mistake. Sorta. “The university announced its intentions Monday, setting off a tectonic battle between […]
The Trump Administration is weaponizing tax-exempt status to punish its political enemies and enforce viewpoint discrimination. It’s illegal, but can it work? Here’s Josh Marshall over at TPM: “It seems unlikely that these moves would hold up in court. And the organizations are highly likely to sue. But this gets at a critical dimension of […]
Positing that the purpose of an economy is to produce and equitably distribute the requisite goods and services for a given societal unit, that the purpose of government is to provide a societal unit essential services including a well functioning economy, that no form of either is ordained, that it is neither the duty nor […]