So the Republicans succeeded in removing 19 billion in taxes on the banksters from finreg, which led John Carney to write this: The Republicans are expected to accept this deal. So funny.
Archives for June 2010
Could the Markets Save Us?
Grim news for market watchers: Stocks fell sharply Tuesday as a steep decline in consumer confidence aggravated growing concern about the global economy and sent the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index to a new low for the year. Stocks fell from the start, continuing a trend that had begun overnight in Asia and spread to …
Their own private Idaho
I read a lot of strange things from Republican state party platforms but I’ve never seen the crazy gold stuff get this kind of official recognition before (from the Idaho Republican party platform): – An admonishment for residents to stock up on gold and silver to gird against the ravages of U.S. dollar inflation, should …
Portugal v Spain Open Thread
Who will claim the Iberian Peninsula Championship?
R2K Fraud
Kos has just posted a report by a couple of independent researchers that shows that some Research 2000 polling was probably a fabrication. He’s also written up an explanatory post describing what happened and the (lack of) response from R2K. Kos’ transparency about polling was the reason the researchers were able to identify the fraud, …
This amuses me
I’ll get off the Goldberg beat soon, but this made me laugh: to show the world that he was right about Al Qaeda-Iraq connections, he had Eli Lake guestblog that Goldberg was right about Al Qaeda-Iraq connections. If you’re not familiar with Lake, he writes for the Washington Times and (formerly) New York Sun, does …
Siegelman Vacated
This is interesting: The US Supreme Court has ruled to vacate the a ruling by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, who was convicted of bribery charges in 2006 in a case that was widely seen as politically motivated. The ruling was vacated in light of another recent ruling …