The Harvard Crimson August 21, 2010 Dear faculty colleagues, No dean wants to see a member of the faculty found responsible for scientific misconduct, for such misconduct strikes at the core of our academic values. Thus, it is with great sadness that I confirm that Professor Marc Hauser was found solely responsible, after a thorough […]
Keith Olbermann suspended for making campaign contributionsWashington Postby David MontgomeryNovember 5, 2010 MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay for making political campaign contributions to three Democratic candidates last month, MSNBC president Phil Griffin said in a statement Friday afternoon. "I became aware of Keith’s political contributions late last night," Griffin said. […]
Employers add 151K jobs; unemployment holds at 9.6% Washington Post By Neil Irwin November 5, 2010 Job growth accelerated in October, but the unemployment rate held steady, the government said Friday, the latest data pointing to an economy that is finally strengthening as the year nears its end. Employers added 151,000 jobs last month – […]
Karl Rove: ‘Climate Is Gone’ Think Progress 11/04/2010 Republican strategist Karl Rove, who helped organize the outside groups that spent millions to install Republicans in the midterm elections, spent election day celebrating with Pennsylvania’s growing drilling industry. Like other corporate sectors, the fossil industry is hoping that Republicans will be able to roll back regulations […]
That article in the New York Times this morning [Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan] was worse for me than the election itself. Obviously, with all my Klan illusions in that last post, I found it beyond infuriating. Essentially, what it said is that everything that’s happened in the last two years to […]
Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan The New York Times By JIM RUTENBERG and JEFF ZELENY November 3, 2010 The PowerPoint slides presented to House Republicans in January 2009 seemed incongruously optimistic at a time when the very word “hope” belonged to the newly ascendant Democrats and their incoming president, Barack Obama. “If […]
County moving to a three-person board of commissioners Pickens Progress 11/4/2010 In a county where close races are the norm, Tuesday’s narrow decision to move to a three-person board of commissioners was no exception. With a margin of less than 150 votes in a race that saw more than 8,000 voters cast ballots, the county […]
I have a lingering question that was born during the debate about the Stimulus in early 2009. I think I first thought it on January 15, 2009 when John Boehner said: "There was no Republican input at all involved in what House Democrats outlined today," Boehner, R-Ohio, said at a news conference at the Capitol. […]
Paul Krugman is pissed off: Harry Gave ‘Em Hell No, People Really Don’t Care About The Deficit QE2: Meh Nobody Cares About Process The Strange Death of Fiscal Policy Simply Put, We Must, Um, Well Blame The Whiny Center He earned his right to groan. Krugman started his complaints that Obama was undershooting even before […]
In 2009 the White House Underestimated the Economic Devastation, in 2010 Democrats Paid the Price HuffingtonPost by Arianna Huffington November 3, 2010 In the end, the 2010 midterms came down to a very simple truth: if unemployment were near double digits come November, Democrats would take a beating. It is, and they have. Exit polls […]