krebscycle

  • Bible study about Republicans

    When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Proverbs 29.2 The House bill would slash the budget for one of the main U.S. foreign food aid programs, Food for Peace, by 40 percent from 2010 levels. That would reduce or eliminate…

  • Pseudo-progressive economics

    Pseudo-progressive economics

    Duncan Black (Atrios) had pitch perfect note up at his Eschaton blog which illustrates several key problems in the kind of economics analysis that dominates “progressive” blogs. Maybe Bill Gross Reads This Humble Blog As I have been saying for some time . As a profession we have failed miserably…

  • Geek Radicalism

    First published in The People’s View Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen and the carbon-dioxide/oxygen cycle, but he also was a dangerous radical who was forced to flee his home in England after he was attacked by a mob that has a lot in common with today’s Tea Party thugs. Historians have…

  • Robert Reich’s paper wizard economics

    During the worst of the financial crisis when the Obama administration was rescuing the auto companies and the UAW in the teeth of bitter Republican opposition, Robert Reich, as usual, was there to offer an assist to the Republicans: “ The answer is not to bail out GM. It is…

  • Dkos spiral – draft

    Originally published on DailyKos  Sun Dec 05, 2010 BlackWaterDog (BWD) was hounded out of DailyKos to her new blog. Bonddad and NewDealDem are here, Deaniac83 and others are at ThePeoplesView, Dennis G. is at Balloon Juice. Some are at weeseeyou and some at bluewavenews. But BWD is the key to…

  • 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…