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Kevin Drum on the Catfood Commission “chairman’s mark”
November 11, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform ("Deficit Commission") aka the Catfood Commission was a bad idea from the beginning. Stacked with Clintonista conservadems and conservative Republicans, the outcome was all too predictable. Yesterday, the chairs of the "bipartisan" commission, Clintonista Erskine Bowles and long-time anti-social security Republican Alan Simpson, issued
Thank a Veteran Today
November 11, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Today is Veterans Day, originally Armistice Day observed on November 11 to recall the official end of World War I on that date in 1918, when the major hostilities of World War I were formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" of 1918 with the German signing
What has happened to McClatchy News?
November 11, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When the Neoconservatives began beating the drums for war with Iraq and fabricating intelligence claims of weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was prepared to use against the United States, every major news service in the country — including the Gray Lady New York Times – dutifully reported the Neoconservative propaganda unquestioningly
Dr. Word asks: Has Lawrence O’Donnell given us a no-nonsense definition of the word “socialism”?
November 10, 2010
by David Safier Lawrence O'Donnell is one of the only non-radical people Dr. Word has heard lately who has dared to declare himself a socialist. He's not for abolishing capitalism or nationalizing corporations. He's just saying, some of what we do in the country is socialistic, like Social Security and Medicare. Some of it is
CCA private prison due for Pima County?
November 10, 2010
by David Safier A story in the Business section of the Star talks about a 3-1 vote by the Pima Supes to OK the development of a Corrections Corporation of America private prison on South Wilmot. Pima County approved a development agreement Tuesday for a private prison on South Wilmot Road that could be used
The Unified Nothingness Theory of Rand Paul
November 10, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Stephen Colbert takes on the media villagers and the Aqua Buddha "unified nothingness theory" of Kentucky senator-elect Rand Paul who are accusing those of us who are tired of being on the receiving end of the faith based supply-side "trickle down" GOP economics of waging "class warfare." Oh, there's class warfare going
No Socialist Trashcare in Arizona!
November 9, 2010
by David Safier We live in an age of crazies running the asylum, and the part of it they don't run, they're trying to run over. Fountain Hills, Arizona, Town Council had a pretty good idea. Consolidate trash hauling from five carriers to one and create a curbside recycling program. The result would be fewer
SB1070, private prisons and ALEC
November 9, 2010
by David Safier Here's what I've read in state papers: Russell Pearce says the NPR stories about SB1070 being a product of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are somewhere between a lie and an exaggeration. Here's what I haven't read in state papers: a story devoted to the findings in the NPR stories —
