…Luther King Jr. famously said that the US government was “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” In the ensuing years the US government has developed, at an accelerating rate,…

…legal immigration status, from getting a K-12 education. That right is firmly established by longstanding Supreme Court precedent and we won. Now, conservatives are trying to come for that law…

…resolve lending issues. Removing safe guards for borrowers. Maybe I am wrong here? Duh! I do not get that feeling. The article continues . . . Removing critical protections responsible…

…retreat from: Word processing on computer: I learned touch typing on a typewriter. My parents gave me a portable manual typewriter as a high school graduation present. I used it…

…here yesterday, in the context the Prop. 8 case. —- UPDATE: Here’s SCOTUSblog’s Lyle Denniston really thorough article reporting on and explaining it all. Most interesting to me is this:…

…derivatives market? : The danger of flashing wrong signals Have you heard the stories of people who have driven through fields, into lakes or off cliffs while following their GPS…

Peter Dorman at Econospeak writes a letter to Bank of America: The Moral Imperative of a Debt Ceiling From this morning’s New York Times: Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New…

…no avail. But Boehner pulled the plug. Thus avoiding the the specter of holding a vote on a federal aid package that included no offsetting spending cuts. And bringing Cantor’s…

…expected deficits on today’s interest rates is contractionary “ I’m not going to let a challenge like that get by me. On the spot, without using pen or paper I…

…on a state’s economy. The new report by economist Peter Fisher with Greg LeRoy and Phil Mattera undertakes a statistical analysis of these policies, using the ALEC ranking of all…