This is a very good question: Activists for Latino and immigrant rights — and supporters of sane governance — held weekend rallies denouncing the new law and vowing to do everything they can to overturn it. But where was the Tea Party crowd? Isn’t the whole premise of the Tea Party movement that overreaching government [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Where is the Tea Party on Arizona Law?
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Politics, Race on April 27, 2010 | 38 Comments »
Krugman Speak!
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Economics, Health, Politics on April 24, 2010 | 15 Comments »
You listen! The key fact about health care — the central issue in health care economics — is that it’s all about the big-ticket items. Checkups don’t cost much; neither does the treatment of minor illnesses. The money that matters goes to bypasses and dialysis — costs that are highly unpredictable, and that almost nobody [...]
Tax Simplification?
Posted in All Linky No Thinky, Politics, Taxes on April 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I have some thoughts on the matter, but I’m trying to find time to formalize them. In the meantime, let me link some conservative-leaning ideas that I find at least superficially appealing. Part 1 Part 2 Read and discuss, while I procrastinate doing something more formal in response.
Noted Without Further Comment
Posted in All Linky No Thinky, Humor on April 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Via frequent commenter/agitator Judd:
Fifteen Years
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Before 9/11, the worst modern terrorist attach was home grown: he Oklahoma City bombing was a bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.[1] Timothy McVeigh detonated an explosive-filled truck that he had parked in front of the Federal Building.[2] McVeigh’s co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, had assisted [...]
Figuring Out Financial Reform
Posted in All Linky No Thinky, Economics, Politics on April 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Dan M complains, with justification, that the blog has been awfully quiet. But I haven’t really had much to write about. If you want to know what I’ve been thinking about lately, you just need to go read Krugman’s blog. I can’t add much (any) value. For example, see his lengthy piece on financial reform [...]
Why “Just Let The Banks Fail” Won’t Work
Posted in All Linky No Thinky, Economics, Politics on April 13, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Krugman explains it so I don’t have to. He adds a bit more here.
Poland
Posted in News & Current Events, Things That Suck on April 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Our thoughts at Lean Left are with the people of Poland today. They lost their president and 95 others in a plane crash today.
About That “Doc Fix”
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Health, Politics on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Conservative/Libertarian types like to harp on how the CBO’s scoring of the health care reform bill is incomplete, because it doesn’t account for the cost of permanently adjusting the Medicare reimbursement rate for doctors, commonly referred to as the “doc fix.” See, for example, frequent commenter matt curtis, in comments here. As I’ve already done [...]
More On “Treason in Defense of Slavery” Month
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, News & Current Events, Politics, Race, Smackdown! on April 8, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Tacking on to what Kevin wrote yesterday, Scott Lemieux at LGM lays down the smack: In attempting to defend the indefensible, John Guardino says that picking on Bob McDonnell’s celebration of pro-slavery treason is unfair because many Confederate soldiers were not personally motivated by slavery. Actually, even more pathetically he says that people who believe [...]
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