From the great Frank Cotham at The New Yorker. Available here, on their new and infinitely more accessible website. (Complained about it a couple of months ago: it's so much better now!) Seems everyone can see the reality of global warming, except Congressional Republicans (58% denier) and members of the Tea Party (61% denier). RelatedContinue reading “Global warming: even the Mafia sees it now”
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GOP wins debt ceiling battle: Unemployment to rise
According to the one economic think tank, the Economic Policy Institute, the newly-signed debt deal ceiling will cost the economy 1.8 million jobs: The agreement to raise the debt ceiling just announced by policymakers in Washington not only erodes funding for public investments and safety-net spending, but also misses an important opportunity to address the lackContinue reading “GOP wins debt ceiling battle: Unemployment to rise”
Climate change and income distribution: real change vs political
The big changes underway in this country are not political, despite the headlines. Divided government: What a shock! Never would've seen that one coming. A much bigger change has taken place in the nature of our economy, and in the nature of our atmosphere, and these are changes the Tea Party can't face, and thusContinue reading “Climate change and income distribution: real change vs political”
Even Sarah Palin’s best friends don’t believe her
From Timothy Egan in his Grifters Tale in The New York Times: If Palin truly believed in the Tea Partiers and their discontent, she would not be charging $100,000 to stoke their fears [at an upcoming convention]. She can do that for free, on Fox. And what policy solutions does she offer the troubled middleContinue reading “Even Sarah Palin’s best friends don’t believe her”
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