August 2011
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joshsternberg replied to your post: “A lot of people have asked why New York Attorney… FWIW - The Manhattan D.A.’s office is going after banks as aggressively as AG Schneiderman. They just do it much quieter. This is from someone who knows, personally,...
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“A lot of people have asked why New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is going after the banks as aggressively as he is. It’s almost unbelievable that one lone elected official, who happens to have powerful legal tools at his disposal, is doing something that no one with any serious degree of power has done. So what is the secret? What kind of machinations is he undertaking that no one...
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Do you or don’t you agree with Rick Santorum, who at last has affirmed that a marriage is a napkin?
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“He’s not a guy who’s going to go up to the Aspen Institute… [But] if he...”
– Bill Miller, a Texas-area lobbyist, on the subject of Rick Perry’s intellect. “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” It isn’t a yes-no answer.
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"Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global... →
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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: 100+ Fellow CEOs To... →
Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz said more than 100 business leaders have joined his pledge to boycott U.S. political campaign donations.
AOL Inc. (AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong, J.C. Penney Co. CEO Myron Ullman, Whole Foods Market Inc. Co-CEO Walter Robb and others have agreed to accelerate hiring and halt campaign giving to incumbents in Washington until Congress finds a...
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inothernews:
For what it’s worth, it looks like the Wall Street Journal had the story cold, like way before the Times. The latter had a blog post up rehashing the resignation letter while the Journal had a board member comment and much more. A whole article. By about 15 minutes. Just goes to show which paper Apple wanted to break the news with, we guess.
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Sorry, Tumblr. I’m at an airport and only have an iPhone. The last post about Jobs was the best I could do.
BREAKING: Steve Jobs resigns
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Recommendation of the week: "Is There Anything... →
pantslessprogressive:
TNR is running a series on the economy and potential solutions to the Great Recession, featuring essays from esteemed economists, professors and journalists.
Available to read now:
Peter Diamond: Want to Fix the Economy? Start With Social Security
Jonathan Cohn, in response to Peter Diamond: Social Security as Part of an Economic Fix
Jim Manzi: Forget Bailouts and...
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معمر القذافي : Why Trying to Spell Gaddhafi's Name...
thepoliticalnotebook:
That is how you spell his name in Arabic. The complication arises from the issue of transliterating letters from the Arabic alphabet that don’t actually exist in English.
Why the K/Kh/Q/G confusion?
For example the first letter (after the “al”) is called “qaf,” which is a funky k sound, very emphatic and pronounced in the back of the throat. It’s often transliterated as a...
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US debt caused by recession, not increased... →
jonathan-cunningham:
Since 1970, federal spending has averaged just over 21 percent of GDP while tax revenues have averaged over 19 percent.
The last time since World War II that federal spending exceeded 23 percent of GDP was in 1982 and 1983, when it rose to 23.1 percent and 23.5 percent, respectively, during what was then called the worst recession since the Great Depression. A Republican,...
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Paul Ryan Tried To Carve Out Tax Loopholes For... →
greaterthanlapsed:
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has tried to “create an array of special loopholes for his top contributors,” the Huffington Post’s Jennifer Bendery reports. For instance, household cleaner giant S.C. Johnson & Son is one of Ryan’s biggest donors, giving him more than $41,000 over his career, and Ryan crafted two bills that would have given the company special...
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BREAKING: Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann Deny Instance of East Coast Quake
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The earthquake’s epicenter was in Mineral, Va. Here are some details about the nuclear power facility that is there.
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“Quick, someone create a Foursquare page!”
“Too late.”
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DISPATCHES: Huntsman Calls His Rivals... →
benjaminlandy:
NYT:
Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former Utah governor who has been stuck in the second tier of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, took an aggressive new tone during a televised interview on Sunday, saying that recent remarks from two of his major rivals were…
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Republicans have finally found a group they want... →
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Why the Press Loves Jon Huntsman but Ignores Ron... →
theamericanbear:
I have no plans to vote for any of these folks, but the points made in this article are important. One of the things I find endlessly frustrating about the protracted presidential campaign season is the increasingly narrow range of acceptable policy positions that candidates and the media are “allowed” to discuss. Anyone outside this narrow band of acceptable positions...
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IBM, Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Apple, and Pfizer: A few of the largest U.S. companies that hide the breakdown between jobs they’ve created in the U.S. versus abroad. Some are part of a coalition of companies that are lobbying Congress for tax breaks on cash parked overseas, claiming that being able to bring overseas cash into the U.S. market at a lower rate would...
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Come tomorrow morning, Republicans are gonna be pissed!
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“Well, I wouldn’t necessarily trust any of my opponents right now, who were on a...”
– Jon Huntsman: “I Wouldn’t Necessarily Trust Any Of My Opponents Right Now” On The Economy
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In other news, grass is green, water is wet, and... →
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U.S. carbon emissions up nearly 4% in 2010 →
mohandasgandhi:
U.S. emissions of the main greenhouse gas rebounded nearly 4 percent last year as factories ran harder while the economy recovered and as consumers boosted air conditioning during the hot summer, the government said today.
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of oil, coal, and natural gas, which accounts for about 80 percent of U.S. overall greenhouse gas output,...
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August 18, 2011: The day that Michele Bachmann claimed Americans are witnessing “the rise of the Soviet Union.” Meanwhile, here on Earth, the Soviet Union dissolved the day after Christmas in 1991.
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stfuconservatives:
“It’s just a good thing I can’t pack a gun on the Senate floor.”
— Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
Another day another Republican making veiled “just kidding” threats against people they disagree with.
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Questions for Bachmann
Since you categorically oppose any kind of debt ceiling increase, which 40% of government would you shut down immediately? [follow up until she names at least one large program]
Questions for Michele Bachmann submission by http://lemkin.tumblr.com
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Since I’m curious: Submit a question you would ask 2012 hopeful Michele Bachmann and I’ll publish it, so long as it’s not entirely tasteless.
I’ll go first: “Do you think gay Americans should have any rights at all?”
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The misery of the protracted presidential campaign... →
The reality is that both parties’ voters, early on in the process, like to flirt with candidates who present themselves as ideologues, but ultimately choose establishment-approved, establishment-serving functionaries perceived as electable (e.g., the Democrats’ 2004 rejection of Dean in favor of Kerry, the GOP’s 2008 embrace of the “maverick” McCain). In those rare instances when they...
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Village Voice: Luke Clark Tyler, Who Lives in a... →
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A “moratorium on regulations across the country” is among presidential hopeful Rick Perry’s first publicly stated policy positions since officially declaring his candidacy. Yes, that would mean Medicare would not be empowered to pay for health care and terrorists could just stroll on in to nuclear facilities. If for some reason you’re in the mood to take the idea seriously,...
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Pentagon, CIA Eye New Threat: Climate Change →
katykelley:
Whoa. This is a big deal.
soupsoup:
Global warming is now officially considered a threat to U.S. national security.
For the first time, Pentagon planners in 2010 will include climate change among the security threats identified in the Quadrennial Defense Review, the Congress-mandated report that updates Pentagon priorities every four years.
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“You can’t grow an economy on cost cutting unless you have offsetting...”
– Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism: Why “business needs certainty” is destructive.
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A progressive answer to the Tea Party, revised
I’ve been informed that some ideas presented in this weekend post about progressive legislation that would counter the Tea Party were objectively good ones. If that’s the case, then I’ve failed. I was going for crazy (and dripping sarcasm), not responsible.
Here is an addendum:
Libertarians, and only libertarians, may be discriminated against. For example, businesses will be...
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