As far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party is just the story of the Republican party from Nixon to Bush II, retold at 78rpm. Conservatives, disgusted with the dishonor and excesses heaped upon them by a corrupt and incompetent Republican Administration, attempt to reclaim their place by going populist. ...

Aw, hell. Where'd we end up?

Did we do this one yet? Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit By ADAM LIPTAK Published: January 21, 2010 WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban poli...

As I recall, the idea that someone would decide to start investigating miscarriages was thought of as laughable, at the time. Here we go: Ga. Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages —By Jen Quraishi | Wed Feb. 23, 2011 5:32 AM PST It's only February, but this year has been a tough one for wome...

So both New Jersey and Virginia (both states who helped elect Obama) now have Republican governors. In order to mitigate these victories, the GOP decided to go completely insane in upstate New York, and a Democrat won a seat held by Republicans since the time of Methuselah. And the people of Maine ...

Socialized medicine, where the health care is both delivered and paid for by the Government, is what we give our Veterans. Having a Public Option as one means of many to insure payment of private physicians and hospitals doesn't even come close to that.

I'm confused. Another industry analyst says Edmunds work on this was "shoddy." And the White House blog explains two points they think Edmunds missed and why they are important factors. In fact, if you take away the descriptors from the article the whole thing scans as "nothing to see...

For the record, I got the AP version from NPR this morning. Now, did FOX cover the 160,000 folks who protested in favor of gay rights in DC a week or so ago? 'Cause, you know, they seem to like protests of any size, right down to a couple of hundred. Their producers like to get the folks to yell lou...

ParanoiA wrote:

Avatar wrote:Who has an anti-trust exemption? And why?

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The NFL does. As far as I know, and I'm certainly no expert, the Baseball league has one too.[...]

...And the insurance companies. Don't forget them!

Shepard Smith's show is on 7-8, and it's not OpEd. Gretta's show isn't OpEd, either. how much censorship does the White House refusing to take FOX's news reportage seriously represent? Again, in order to respond, I'm forced to correct the characterization of the stakes here. No one is accusing Obam...

None of this conflicts with what I've just said, Cail. FOXNews has made no secret that they'll throw anything they can (and several things they shouldn't) at Obama since the "schooled in a Madrassa"/"Terrorist Fist Bump" days. Using FOX's single minded determination against them ...

A little perspective: FOX is piped into 90 million American homes. Of those 90 million, 3% watch FOX. Now, I'm going to assume that most of the people with basic cable who watch FOX have jobs. Checking the TV schedule in the paper, the hours when most employed people are home and awake (between 6pm ...

It was stupid when it was steroids in baseball, it's stupid now.

Good posts, folks. Just to keep us on track (and to summarize) the standing arguments against are: 1) I've conflated Supply Side with Reaganomics. This is true. I've always thought "Supply Side" was a less perjorative term for "trickle down." (See? This is why I do this stuff.) 2...

Harbringer, you make my point: The "boom" of the 90's was just another bubble that burst, followed by another jobless recovery. I disagree. Unfortunately, many members of our society borrow too heavily against their future. And many members of our society take what is offered to them with...

Also, we're not talking about your (or anyone's) personal spending power. We're talking about an national average wage that has remained fairly stagnant, when indexed for inflation, or even gone down. Cail, I can't tell if you are disagreeing with me, or agreeing from the other side of the argument....

I don't remember launching a defense on the bank bailout, beyond pointing out that Bush had fewer strings attached to the first half of it than Obama did, even those were only there because the Dems told Bush he had to put them in. It was a bad idea, but I don't think that the bailout being a bad id...

I understand your point, but the thing that keeps occuring to me is that the bank bailout pretty much proves, and in the most direct way possible, that when you throw money at the top, it pretty much stays there. The money we gave them was used for (yes) bonuses to the guys that screwed the pooch in...

I don't think so. I mean, I think there is an advantage to higher taxes at the top - there becomes an advantage to put the profits back into your business, effectively not making the government the filter through which your R&D budget goes. And I really don't see how the number of loans Freddie ...