The Bloomberg expose on the Koch Brothers is online
October 3, 2011
by David Safier The Bloomberg expose on the Brothers K is online. It's long. I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Dig in. Feel free to post about your favorite section in the comments section.
Obama’s campaign hits the right notes
October 3, 2011
by David Safier Looks like Obama's campaign plans to play a little hard ball. A new strategy memo lays out the message in the first paragraphs, then documents why it will be effective. From economics to immigration, Governor Perry, Governor Romney and the Republican field have embraced policies that the American people oppose. The campaign
Van Jones: “This is our ‘tea party’ moment – in a positive sense.”
October 3, 2011
by David Safier Yesterday, I hesitantly wrote the Occupy Wall Street protests could be the beginning of a progressive/liberal/left version of the Tea Party without the corporate financing or the behind-the-scenes Republican political manipulation. Looks like I shouldn't have been so reluctant to make the comparison. E.J. Dionne has a column today, Can the Left
AIRC Update: Chair Colleen Mathis’ Latest ‘Compromise’ Map
October 3, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The congressional map under discussion this morning is not yet online, but here is a screen shot. Chair Colleen Mathis wants this map adopted TODAY. Her fellow commissioners want time to study and analyze it. UPDATE: The map is now online (.pdf file). http://www.azredistricting.org/Maps/pubmaps/100311/Map_as_of_100211/Cong-Map_as_of_100211.pdf Some of the notable changes: the population centers of
In other Supreme Court news…
October 3, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It looks like Congress is finally willing to take action on the ethically challenged Justice Clarence Thomas. It's about damn time! Joan McCarter reports at Daily Kos: Twenty House Democrats call for investigation of Justice Thomas: Justice Clarence Thomas has been under ongoing scrutiny by activists and members of Congress for what appear
First Monday in October
October 3, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The "first Monday in October" marks the first day of the United States Supreme Court's new Term. The first case, starting at 10 a.m., grows out of challenges by health care providers in California to the state’s several moves to cut reimbursements for providing medical care for the poor and the disabled.
The Fire Next Time: The Euro Financial Crisis
October 3, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Most media outlets do not do "economics" reporting. They do stock market reporting. Watch the evening news and you get 15 seconds on how the stock market closed today — unless there is a major sell-off and then that merits a report a few minutes in length from their stock market reporter. It was not always thus.
Foreclosuregate Update: California AG rejects settlement
October 3, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The fiftyforty-five state settlement negotiations between the states attorneys general, the Justice Department and the banksters of Wall Street may be finally, irrevocably off the table. The whitewash settlement for mere pennies on the trillions of dollars stolen by the banksters of Wall Street in securitized mortgage fraud in the casino capitalism of
