2016-03-19 18:53
For those oh-some-pleasant holiday discussions about the latest political controversies, here's a little reference aid for one of them, The Gun Glossary: What’s a semi-automatic?… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Somehow I listened to the presentation on Friday by the NRA's Wayne LaPierre without gaq reflexes kicking in. If you want to try it yourself, here's the whole thing, courtesy of PBS Newshour… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
"And frankly, I’m convinced that the president is unwilling to stand up to his own party on the big issues that face our country." - House Speaker John Boehner (Sabrina Siddiqui, John… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Yanis Varoufakis describes the experience of the eurozone with austerity policies, in the context of describing why the non-financial sector may not recover as fast as the financial sector (… Read More
2012-12-19 14:32
I've resisted trying to speculate about some of the more subjective aspects of gun violence in the US political culture because of the very reason Charlie Pierce mentions in his The Night Be… Read More
2012-12-18 17:25
So President and Social Security opponent Obama has gone there. After he let people hope for a weekend that the Grand Bargaining to cut benefits on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid mig… Read More
2012-12-17 16:17
From PBS Newshour, President Obama: 'Newtown, You Are Not Alone' 12/16/2012:Ken Dixon and Neil Vigdor in The president comes to comfort Newtown SFGate 12/17/2012 managed to hear in this spee… Read More
2012-12-14 23:53
President Obama On School Shooting 12/14/2012:President Obama, apparently thinking he was re-elected National Pastor in November, says in this short public statement on the Connecticut mass… Read More
2012-12-14 18:39
Obama's Grand Bargain to cut benefits on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid had a bad week, it seems. Which means it was a good week for the vast majority of Americans.After the White Ho… Read More
2012-12-14 01:14
Like the Great Depression, the current one has brought some surprising developments in politics in Europe and the United States, hopefully none of which will turn out to have the sort of adv… Read More
2012-12-12 16:41
David Dayen, who will be missed when he takes a blogging break from his FDL News gig after December 21, writes about a hopeful development on the "fiscal cliff"/Grand Bargain front in 450,00… Read More
2012-12-10 22:05
Lately I've gotten into one of those phases where I'm wondering if I should just post two or three times a day, "read Digby" or "read Charlie Pierce." Both are following the "fiscal cliff" d… Read More
2012-12-10 18:43
I've written here a lot lately about the role of the left-center parties in advanced countries in the neoliberal scheme of things. Yanis Varoufakis takes a look at what happened to Europe's… Read More
2012-12-09 22:48
Bloomberg Businessweek's Peter Coy steps outside the "fiscal cliff" conventional wisdom and actually explains several practical real-world issues around them well in The Fiscal Cliff Isn't t… Read More
2012-12-07 22:26
Digby has a good roundup on austerity-economics news in Europe and Australia in Let's do it anyway, shall we? Hullabaloo 12/07/2012. Guess what? It's making their economies shrink!The most i… Read More
2012-12-06 19:40
I'm to the point on the Grand Bargain/Fiscal Cliff show that I'm reluctant to take seriously anything anyone says on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid unless I know that same person is… Read More
2012-12-06 00:02
The speech has the two basic flaws most of his speech on the "fiscal cliff" nonsense have: he doesn't defend benefits on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid ("entitlements" in the jargon… Read More
2012-12-04 22:11
Listening to Tony Blair about anything is kind of like watching FOX News to get informed about current events, or consulting Mitt and Ann Romney on how to show the common touch.But here is L… Read More
2012-12-03 18:01
Paul Krugman is impressed at the determination of the Republican opposition to block action on budget issues proposed by President Obama. In Operation Rolling Tantrum 12/02/2012,he writes:Oh… Read More
2012-12-02 21:03
President Obama used his regular Saturday message to hype the phony "fiscal cliff" and to promote Republican Party framing of the deficit as an urgent priority and of tax cuts as the most im… Read More
2012-12-01 00:36
President Obama spoke in Hatfield PA Friday, Remarks by the President in Visit to Rodon Group Manufacturing Facility 11/30/2012. He's promoting his current plan to avoid the fake "fiscal cli… Read More
2012-11-30 22:17
Georgios Papandreou was the social-democratic Prime Minister of Greece for the PASOK party from 2009-2011. By caving in to German Prime Minister Angela "Frau Fritz" Merkel's demands for dest… Read More
2012-11-30 19:05
As President Obama undertakes his national tour to promote his passionate conviction that we should be "asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more," there is a confusing flow of le… Read More
2012-11-29 21:37
Medicare opponent and Senate Democratic Chair of the Budget Committee Kent Conrad, who is not standing for re-election and therefore has substantial financial incentive to make himself attra… Read More
2012-11-29 16:46
When I was going to the National Memo to read Gene Lyons weekly column, I wound up at the National Journal instead. Which led to discovering and interesting set of contrasts.Gene's piece is… Read More
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