…or did it go to Reagan’s Star Wars fantasy? Reagan was no budget cutter. In fact, the federal budget grew over a third during his administration. Here, she finally gets…

…as it happens, is at issue in the other culture-wars blockbuster Supreme Court case this term, Fisher v. The University of Texas, a.k.a., the big affirmative-action-in-state-university-admissions-policy case. John Roberts will…

…as reckless as the Republicans’ mantra: “We don’t have a revenue problem; we have a spending problem.” Of course. Which is why, pre-Bush-tax-cuts, and pre-Bush-unfunded-wars, we didn’t have a spending…

…One great aspect of this report is that it goes beyond the two examples of interstate border wars we hear the most about, New York-New Jersey-Connecticut and Kansas-Missouri. We learn…

…spent on military budgets and preemptive wars when Bush was in office! What they want is a radical restructuring of the economy in a way that will maintain and further…

…“substantive” legal issues (“substantive” being another legal term of art; legal issues are either “substantive” or “procedural.”) And rarely covers even substantive issues that aren’t part of the culture wars…

…has not been caused by medicare and medicaid, but by unreasonably high defense spending, wars of dubious value to America, and the massive fraud of “bankers and private equity billionaires”…

by Linda Beale Links Worth Noting: Stealth (Class) Warfare (Op-ed) Paul Krugman, Class Wars of 2012, New York Times (Nov. 30, 2012). When Mitt Romney disparaged ordinary Americans, it was…

…tax cuts combined with the Bush wars, and the Reaganomics deregulatory mania) is not an unbearable yoke around our necks. We should be discussing the real needs of the country…

…tax intake from the Reagan tax cuts through the Bush tax cuts, coupled with the unprecedented problem of the Bush preemptive wars being fought without the historical use of wartime…