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  • We can’t afford to have the government spend

    Business travelers in France can get on 250 mile an hour trains that leave from clean modern stations on time. American businessmen can sit in traffic on the way to aging airports over broken roads or take old slow trains that bump along rails that were obsolete in the 1960s.…

  • I’ve never got a job from a poor man in my life

    Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia dead broke and without a job. David Packard and Bill Hewlett started their company with $500 investment. Amazon.com and Apple were started in garages. But Tea Party sponsor David Koch got $300 million when Dad died and he has a different, more aristocratic view of…

  • Greenwald’s state secret sleight of hand

    [Greenwald] What Andrew says Obama has a “duty” to do – “explain in court why he believes this person must be treated as an active enemy at war with the US” – is precisely that which Obama is steadfastly refusing to do. cite This is totally false. We’re not here…

  • Aulaqi and Obama’s argument and Greenwalds version

    First I want to summarize the argument that the Department of Justice made to the court about Anwar al-Aulaqui and the lawsuit brought against the government by his father and the ACLU. Then I want to show you Glenn Greenwalds “summary” of the same argument. I’m going to provide links…

  • Larry Summers did good

    Originally published in Daily Kos 9/24/2010. Thu Sep 23, 2010 at 10:24:21 PM PDT Around 2000, Larry Summers did something that is rare among academics and almost non-existent among economists: he let the evidence change his opinion. More remarkable he discarded an opinion that had made him rich and high…

  • Hippie punching: a whole earth guide for the rest of us

    Hippie punching is fun, good exercise, and good for the environment, but it can be confusing unless you follow a few common sense rules. The first is to understand that hippie punching does not involve hurting these kinds of people or any kind of physical violence at all. G_d forbid.…

  • a discussion

    <![CDATA[// <![CDATA[ //]]> rootless_e    re an article that is based on a Mike Allen story – CLUELESS => @digby56 Mike Allen? Huh?18 dimensional chess is above my head// 16 minutes ago via TweetDeck   Delete rootless_e    .@digby56 http://krebscycle.tumblr.com/post/1169427165/how-mike-allen-plays-the-netroots #p2 about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck   Delete rootless_e…

  • How Mike Allen plays the netroots

    Digby reports that the evil Obama has said mean things about the delicate people on the net who claim to be “the left” or “hippies” or something. She gives us this horrifying, blood-curdling, bone-chilling, even uppity quote: Democrats, just congenitally, tend to get – to see the glass as half empty.…

  • similarities

    In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at…

  • The free market doesn’t like green energy all that much

    When economists talk of “the market”, they mean the collective decision of investors. The Obama administration is lending to build electric cars and batteries. a total of $8 billion in loan commitments, including a whopping $5.9 billion to help Ford retool factories in Kentucky, Michigan [..], Illinois, Missouri and Ohio…