…did, and 64% of those voting for Bush 8 years ago believed that he did. Here are some things more worthy of remembrance than 9/11, but which will not get…

…the regulatory knuckle raps enacted in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. On the LIBOR fraud, he is apparently voting with his wallet. During his much publicized Olympic trip to London,…

An comment worth noting on an interesting post Where Are You in the Economic Strata? by Barry Ritholtz is the following (hat tip Mike K.): In my opinion, aspirational voting…

Update: (hat tip Robert Waldmann) Senate.gov voting record on middle class tax cut bill Excerpted from Linda Beale’s piece (7/25) on the numbers for the action taken by the Senate:…

…!!!! SECOND UPDATE: The opinion is 5-4, with Roberts voting with the Dem appointees and writing the opinion, and Kennedy writing the main dissent. Here’s more from SCOTUSblog: The money…

Yves Smith posted a call to action. If you want this country to be different, you can’t just wish for it or expect voting to effect change. You need to…

…year yet. (We have data for subsequent years of debt for the Previous Administration, of course, but nothing that would have been public knowledge by the voting in November of…

…they know is a habitual liar and cockily flaunts it, a majority probably wouldn’t risk voting for one who appears to base important decisions on supposed facts that have not…

…confront cases concerning affirmative action in higher education and a request to reconsider the Citizens United campaign finance decision. Cases on voting rights and same-sex marriage are not far behind….

…if they choose to retire later. IF those same workers as a voting majority decide they want the “same replacement rate” (monthly benefit as a percent of of their average…