A few weeks ago, The Saturday Evening Post re-published a "what will the world be like in the year 2000" article from the Ladies' Home Journal from a century earlier. It's fun to see what the author got right or wrong...
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An excellent presentation of the arguments in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage. Washington Governor Chris Gregoire is both rational and emotional. Update: Here's the situation a few days after Gov Gregoire's announcement.
This savage deconstruction of the UK Conservative government's austerity program is in sync with most economists...
Seriously whimsical geography! ;-)))
Mr Romney would have us believe that running a company -- even one that destroys companies and jobs -- is good preparation for running a country. Paul Krugman explains why this, like SO much that Mr Romney would have us believe, is nonsense.
Bain is Romney's Running-Partner. I have nothing more to say!
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Romney will say anything to win. He will deny anything to win. Lying liar. Everyone knows that Romney is a lying liar. ... ... The Republican Party will nominate him for President. This situation bothers me, but then I am not a Republican.
Intellectual fireworks from a leading British diplomat.
We sometimes get into flame-wars here on NV... but they are nothing at all compared to Academia Wars!
I've been amazed / NOT-amused by the fascination that some liberals have shown with the ultra-conservative Dr Paul. This is a pretty good explanation.
No Comment. The article speaks for itself.
I rarely seed from Al Jazeera because many people discount it as a source, even when the subject isn't particularly "Arab-world-sensitive". So I googled "defence strategic review"... but couldn't find it elsewhere.
The 1% doesn't like people knowing about them, and even less likes people knowing about how they operate. So the 1% pays a lot of talking heads to spread false "facts" around. The Washington Post, back in the Katherine Graham days, was one of the best newspapers in the coun …
Ah... a "universe ship"... my pulp magazine days come flooding back...
The Economist is getting desperate! Will no one come along to prevent their having to do the unthinkable: endorse Barack Obama... ;-))))))
Just for the graphic! Remember Herman Cain?? ;-)))))))))
PK supplies the data to show that Romney is full of çrap!
Gee... wasn't it the presence of CDSs that justified the magical transformation of sub-prime mortgages into "AAA" gilt-edged securities?? Gosh, that sure worked out well... :-(((((
When policy is decided on the basis of dogma rather than, bad things happen. When that policy is the economic well-being of the nation, and the well-being of a couple hundred million ordinary Americans... dogma is a really, really REALLY bad way to go...
Easy to understand data from Firedoglake.
The Scientist is running its year-end "Top Stories of 2011" recap. This story, which I missed when it came out in August, is ranked third.
From MoveOn.org
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Krugman continues his explanation of why a nation's debt is different from a person's debt...
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