Hey buddy can you spare a dime? 1 out of 7 Americans living below the poverty line The Examiner by Michael Haltman September 12th, 2010 Report Released Saturday, One Day After President Obama Touted His Anti-Poverty Plans: Since the inauguration of President Obama, the U.S. economy has shown few signs of climbing out of the […]
On 911, it seems reasonable to talk about American towers falling, in this case, the notion of equality. In the first four installments of the Slate series [The United States of Inequality], Timothy Noah talked about what did not cause the rising wealth inequity in the US [see “the most significant change in American society […]
I’ve discovered another graphologist, only she’s legit – Catherine Mulbrandon’s blog VisualizingEconomics. Here are a few about the National Debt from the Chicago Tribune. I’ll just let them speak for themselves for the moment. Do take a look at VisualizingEconomics, she has quite a collection [with a well indexed search option]. She’s collaborating with Timothy […]
This is not right! This kind of wealth inequity isn’t acceptable in the USA – it’s the kind of thing you see in Latin America where the "haves" live in houses behind walls topped with barbed wire and broken glass. Why has the wealth inequity increased so dramatically? It’s easy to say it’s a bad […]
9th Circuit: The Government Can Kidnap and Torture You and Then Hide It Under State Secrets By: emptywheel September 8, 2010 This – a decision in the Jeppesen Dataplan suit upholding the government’s invocation of state secrets – is really bad news. This case requires us to address the difficult balance the state secrets doctrine […]
AstraZeneca’s Seroquel XR gets EU add-on approval Wall Street Journal Sept. 2, 2010 LONDON [MarketWatch] – AstraZeneca … said Thursday that the European Commission has issued a positive decision for the approval of its Seroquel XR extended release tablets as an add-on treatment of major depressive episodes for patients who have sub-optimal response to antidepressant […]
I seem determined to write repetitively about the sins of the Bush years, determined that just moving on without addressing it is a mistake – disagreeing with Obama’s entreaty to look forward. But looking backward hasn’t really caught on – at least not so much as some of us might wish. Actually, what has caught […]
Just in case you’re one of the few living souls that hasn’t seen this recent Internet Phenome, here it is. First watch the news report on the left. Then watch on the right what the Gregory Brothers did with it using some software and their imagination. News Report Video Remix
Tony Blair’s Big Lie of Omission Mother Jones by David Corn Sep. 3, 2010 … Blair devotes a serious chunk to defending his decision to partner up with Bush for the Iraq war. "I can’t regret the decision to go to war," he writes. "…I can say that never did I guess the nightmare that […]
from AMERICAblog: Two of the greats were on cable news last night to talk about Ken Mehlman. Savage was on Olbermann: Signorile was on CNN: One thing Mehlman’s coming out did do is confirm that Rove used Gay Marriage being on the ballot as a tool to get out the Fundamentalist vote – particularly virulent […]