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Jesse Helms died at the age of 86. He served 30 years in the US Senate. He was a shrewd manipulator of Senate rules and a fearless champion of racism in its most honest form. Helms was also a rare breed - a truly honest bigot. He didn’t dress up his [...]

Sometimes others say it better than I. I’d like to add one more culprit…OK, about fifty million culprits; every uninformed idiot that voted for him the second time too.
Sorry, Mr. President, But Your Legacy Is More Awful Than You Think
Posted June 11, 2008 | 04:57 PM (EST)
h/t Huffington Post
Rest assured, Mr. President, that [...]

A gaffe happens when a politician, accidentally or on purpose, speaks the truth in public. That’s what Barack Obama got caught doing.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has something to say about the “bitter” so-called controversy that’s been heavily promoted by the Clinton campaign and the media all weekend.

Male hourly wages began to drop [...]

Pat Buchanan wrote an op-ed that pretty much confirms there is an invisble white pointed hood on his head.

What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure? Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, [...]

Watching the mortgage meltdown go from bad to horrific to George Romero has got me thinking about credit in general.
Credit is an odd thing; the more credit you use the more credit worthy you become.  Even if you are making insane purchases, so long as you make your monthly payments, you can get more credit - [...]

They can’t be serious. That’s always my first thought. In 2003 I figured President Bush couldn’t be serious about invading Iraq– after all, that would be illegal, morally wrong, and bound to have disastrous consequences. Now it may be our turn to suffer the consequences. The federal government has come back [...]

Oil’s Well That Ends Well
by DarkSyde
Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 05:30:46 AM PST
Exxon-Mobil (XOM - CNBC) closed out the last quarter of 2007 with record earnings, handily beating consensus estimates. The Irving, Texas, based integrated oil giant benefited from the rising price of crude: each one dollar increase in the price of a barrel is [...]

Over a Orcinus, Sara has a great series on leadership that has gotten me thinking about America’s history of leadership. Read it here, here, here and here.
Sara makes an important point. Political systems have a life cycle - they begin as a solution to a set of problems. They function well for [...]

The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, according to data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.
The total income of the top 1.1 million households was $1.8 trillion, or 18.1 percent of the total [...]

Randi Rhodes of Air America, speech to the 50th Anniversary party of “PEACE ACTION of Michigan” on November 11, 2007.
DO not miss this. It is the most honest REAL discussion of what is really happened over the past seven long years.

Via Washington Monthly, I see a great article from Steven Pearlstein.  Pearlstein’s title gives you an idea of the content of his article:  It’s Not 1929, but it’s the Biggest Mess Since. 
Some background might be in order.  The 90s, when I was in business school, was the golden age of creative financial modelling - also [...]

By now you’ve heard of Naomi Wolf’s Shock Doctrine. <—-This Olbermann interview includes some rarely discussed stories about Milton Friedman, and how utterly corrupt was his philosophy.
But such tactics are not new, the history of their use is the story of the struggle between good and evil in American government. The good guys have [...]