Declining Fortunes While the ongoing new jobless claims have not received much attention from the executive branch, this dour economic news surely will. Seriously, if regressive tax cuts come at the expense of growth (either directly or because they foreclose some alternative and more stimulative policy) then they don’t even help they rich. Or, more […]
Fare Thee Well It looks like Wampum is going on hiatus, possibly permanently. MB’s posts were always insightful, informative, and done with style. I will particularly miss the laboriously compiled Flashback Fridays series. MB was also the creative force behind It’s Still the Economy, Stupid!, a project that I’ve enjoyed being a part of and […]
Coral Calcium Update A while back, I commented on an amusing informercial in which the makers of “Coral Calcium” made this claim: “DNA can’t work unless it’s smothered in calcium”. Turns out, the FTC was reading Angry Bear: The Federal Trade Commission is asking a U.S. court in Chicago to shut down an operation that […]
Pathetic Democrats Previously, I speculated that the Republicans were adding an exta layer to the tax cuts by excluding the lower middle class. I wrote that “I figured the plan was to hit the $350 target, via the chicanery of sunsets, exclude popular taxes, and then force the Democrats and moderate Republicans to insist on […]
For Something Completely Different Via Tom McMahon, take a look at Britney Spears’ Guide to Semiconductor Physics. AB
More on Polls Today, I received a “poll” from the Interfaith Alliance, an association that promotes the worthy goals of religious diversity and tolerance. The cover letter leads off with quotes from Jerry Falwell (blaming “the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians” for 9/11) and Pat Robertson (on […]
More Red v. Blue More subsidizing of the Red states, via Atrios. AB
More on the Poll I mentioned before that I am apparently listed somewhere as a Republican, causing GOP Chairman Marc Racicot to send me a letter. I asked my readers if I should fill it out with far-right (to pull the GOP further from the center) or far-left answers (to confuse them). Upon reflection and […]
Grover Norquist There’s a pretty interesting piece in today’s Chicago Tribune, Pipeline leads to White House, that centers on Grover Norquist’s weekly meetings with conservative leaders and the interaction between Norquist’s group and the White House. Norquist, as you may recall, recently said “Bipartisanship is another name for date rape”. By that I suppose he […]
Happy 49th, No Sense of Decency! From the NYT, today is the 49th anniversary of the beginning of the end for Sen. McCarthy, which started with Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy’s attack on a member of Welch’s law firm, Frederick G. Fisher. Said Welch […]