Harold Meyerson, at the Washington Post, worries about the Koch Brothers’ latest attempt to institute their “three-pronged, 10-year strategy to shift the country toward a smaller government with less regulation and taxes”: On May 21, Los Angeles voters will go to the polls to select a new mayor. Who will govern Los Angeles, however, is …
“How come there’s no manhunt for the owner of the Texas factory…?”
Mike Elk, labor reporter and staff writer for In These Times Magazine, in the Washington Post: On Friday, as cable news networks sought desperately to fill airtime while waiting for the latest news in the aftermath of the Boston bombings, a friend asked me, “How come there’s no manhunt for the owner of the Texas …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Just Cruisin’ Thru
(Jeff Danziger’s website) . Dubya Bush doesn’t seem to have had many generous impulses in his life, but he sure can’t stop making gifts to America’s humorists. Ask Doghouse Riley about what the shills call “an interactive theater [where library visitors] will be presented with the stark choices that confronted the nation’s 43rd president” and …
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Max Baucus Prepares for His Cash-Out
The Washington Post, company paper in the town where politics is the monopoly industry, kept its report determinedly ‘bipartisan’: Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), one of the most influential congressional figures of his era, announced his intention Tuesday to retire, a move that could produce sweeping changes in the political and legislative landscape over the next …
Gitmo: The Forced Feedings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
If the strategy isn’t working, it must be time to double down: (Reuters) – The U.S. military is sending additional medical personnel to the Guantanamo prison camp, where more than half the captives have joined a hunger strike to protest their open-ended detention, a camp spokesman said on Monday… House said the new arrivals would …
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Early Morning Open Thread: A Mind Ahead of Her Time
The immortal Miss Austen can command allegiance from the most unlikely sources, per a NYTimes review: It’s not every day that someone stumbles upon a major new strategic thinker during family movie night. But that’s what happened to Michael Chwe, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, when he …
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Monday Evening Open Thread: Bells of GoT
(UW-Madison carillon; h/t commentor Ranchandsyrup) . Kudos to the Obama Administration. From the Washington Post: As he lay seriously injured in a Boston area hospital, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property, counts that could bring him the death penalty. He made his first court …
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