Ron Brownstein of the National Journal points out something interesting: Republican members of Congress who got elected in Democratic districts aren’t voting like people whose jobs are tenuous; they’ve voting like, well, like any other Republican, at least on environmental issues: In February, the House voted to block pending EPA regulations limiting emissions of carbon […]
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Do Not Fear the Return of Palin
Now that Sarah Palin has finally admitted what some of us understood a long time ago — that she is not going to run for president in 2012 — some liberals are less than entirely relieved. After all, she’s only 47, so she could torment us with a potential presidential candidacy for a couple of […]
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The Peasants Will Surely Reject Your Class Warfare
You can expect lots and lots of this in months to come. Here’s National Journal‘s Josh Kraushaar, telling Obama not to get all populist. The only evidence he offers is that Obama’s approval is really low right now, in contrast to when he was running for president and had the support of lots of independents. […]
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Death Watch for Health Clinics
Community wellness centers used to have bipartisan support — that is, until they were included in the Affordable Care Act.
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In the Palm of Your Hand
It’s no exaggeration to say that before Steve Jobs and Apple, computers were esoteric machines for researchers and academics. Few people had a chance to interact with them, and their relevance to everyday life was marginal. This changed with the Apple II. Introduced in 1977, it was the first successful mainstream computer, and its follow-up, […]
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My Body, Myself
(Homepage photo credit: Georgia O’Keeffe, Grey Line with Black, Blue, and Yellow, 1923. Houston Museum of Fine Arts.) So you’ve been watching those early ’60s nostalgia shows in fascinated horror — oh lord, women really had to live like that — and wondering: How in the world did that world change into this one? Here’s […]
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How the Times Have Changed, Part 386
On Wednesday afternoon, within a few minutes of one another, many of America’s leading unions — the Service Employees, the Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers — not to mention labor’s omnibus federation, the AFL-CIO — all released endorsements of Occupy Wall Street and its ongoing demonstrations in New York’s (and the world’s) financial center. […]
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Ben Bernanke’s Mostly Right
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says the economy is on the verge of another recession — “close to faltering” was his euphuism of choice in his testimony to Congress Tuesday — and there only so much the Federal Reserve can do about it. For once, he is mostly right. Bernanke has already cut short term interest […]
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Are Tea Partiers Right to Distrust Mitt Romney?
Kevin Drum thinks they may be misjudging: With a guy like Rick Perry, you never know. The right person whispers in his ear and suddenly he decides that he hates cancer so much that he doesn’t care about conservative principles. Cancer is more important. Do you think Mitt Romney would ever do that? No siree. […]
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Occupied
I don’t think I’m alone in initially dismissing the Wall Street protesters as the same ill-informed, ideologues who protested the WTO and the imprisonment of Mumia in one pointless breath throughout the late ’90s and early aughts. It was hard for me to take seriously the political sentiments of the mostly privileged college kids who […]
