Archives for June 2010

  Recessions are common; depressions are rare. As far as I can tell, there were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as “depressions” at the time: the years of deflation and instability that followed the Panic of 1873 and the years of mass unemployment that followed the financial crisis of 1929-31. […]

The raw article that shows the effect of the tax cuts fiasco and its effects on our budget deficit going forward can be viewed at http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1811.  http://www.cbpp.org/… Why not pound this fact home over and over and over again. The very people that are calling the unemployed "funemployed" are enjoying the very same tax cuts […]

This illustrates the hypocrisy of those in the Tea Party and the GOP leadership. Corporate welfare has always cost the American taxpayer much more than the pittance  that’s given to those in need or even the small number of scourges who abuse the system. The reality is the system is abused much more by corporate […]

  Apparently this is officially the week the world discovers reporters have opinions, too. Hot on the heels of Dave Weigel’s resignation from WaPo over some leaked emails in which he expressed his dislike over certain aspects of the conservative movement comes this video of reporters getting caught on a hot mic making fun of […]

  A loving family should not have to go through legal nightmares just to be "officially" together. If we spent more time ensuring that functional families are able to stay together as opposed to designing a prototype family that likely never existed, society would be better for it. If gay priest and evangelists are incapable […]

  Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh famously said he hoped President Obama would “fail” in January, 2009. Almost a year later, when Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital with chest pains, Washington Post reporter David Weigel had a wish of his own. “I hope he fails,” Weigel cracked to fellow liberal reporters on the “Journolist” […]

Advisory Media Missing the McChrystal Point 6/25/10 The media firestorm over the Rolling Stone profile (6/22/10) of General Stanley McChrystal mostly missed the real point of the article, which was a damning portrait of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Much of the media coverage stressed the criticism and insults hurled by McChrystal and his staff […]

 Pew: Obama’s Ratings Little Affected by Recent Turmoil Since the beginning of this year, President Obama has signed a controversial health care measure, coped with a stubbornly high jobless rate, and struggled to manage the largest environmental disaster in the nation’s history. In that period, Obama’s overall job approval rating has moved from 49% to […]

The GOP yesterday again showed their lack of humanity in blocking extended unemployment compensation on the pretense of fiscal responsibility. That they never display this relative to support for corporations or the methodical permanent state of war makes this not only hypocritical but inhumane. Support Our Politics Done Right Store