Assorted News on Various Topics
…Nazis wiped it off the face of the earth” “July 18, 2022″ – by Heather Cox Richardson (substack.com) “Maggie Haberman and Luke Broadwater of the New York Times reported that yet another…
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Hillary Clinton (Obviously) Reads Angry Bear! Or at least she did yesterday.
…Maggie Haberman, Politico, yesterday at 7:56 p.m. Yesterday, as all you AB readers know, I posted this rant, I mean post, that was highly critical of both Hillary Clinton and…
Looks Like It’s All Over But the Shouting.*
The New York Times’ report today by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin on Clinton’s, Sanders’s and O’Malley’s speeches last night at the annual Iowa Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson Dinner includes this:…
Making a Difference in American Families’ Lives by Crying ‘Wolf’ about Sexism
…— Bernie Sanders Walking the Line Between Personal Attacks and Political Critiques, Patrick Healy and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, today Absolutely, Clinton’s campaign has been about how to make…
Am I the only one who thinks Trump’s New York Times interview probably ends his competitiveness in most of the Rust Belt? Just wonderin’.
…those allies fail to pay more for American protection. — Donald Trump Sets Conditions for Defending NATO Allies Against Attack, David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, today…
Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel
…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…
Housing Update
…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…
Oh, dear. Another loopy challenge to yet another ACA provision, this one concerning the Independent Payment Advisory Board.*
…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…
How do Americans get rich? (and stay rich?)
…that: think twice about calling it “income” — even with the Haig-Simons tag attached. I’ve received almost-universal pushback on the “comprehensive income” label, even from the most enlightened (and progressive)…