While liberals and progressives are united with unions and the working class over the events in Wisconsin this past week, I’d like to recognize the vital role that the Third Way has played in all this. They’ve really shown us where they stand, having said… not one word about the events. Not so much as …
C.R.E.A.M.
Tuesday Afternoon Open Thread
(Tony Auth via gocomics.com) __ It’s pretty obvious: I got nothing.
Updated Update: Judge Ciavarella Found Guilty
Since Kay is busy organizing in Ohio (Ohio residents, check that post!), she graciously gave me permission to post another update on the Pennsylvania judge caught using hapless local teenagers as a profit center: SCRANTON, Pa. – A former juvenile court judge was convicted Friday of racketeering in a case that accused him of sending …
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“More All-Pro Meat on the NFL’s Scrap Pile”
I do not pay much attention to sports, but Tom Scocca at Slate has provided me with a deeper understanding of why the Packers are standing with their fellow union members in Wisconsin: As the National Football League heads into labor mediation with its players union, with the owners insisting the last collective bargaining agreement …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Keep Fighting
Couple of uplifting assaults on the Conventional Wisdom to get the blood pumping. First, Paul Krugman (peace be upon His Eternal Shrillness!) uses his NYTimes space to explain, yet again, why when it comes to the trendy new deficit hawks, “Willy Sutton Wept“: There are three things you need to know about the current budget …
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Cue the Washington Post editorial
Maybe the FREE MARKET will solve the problem of teh bias: The Department of Education is tired of federally subsidized student loans going to shady for-profit colleges that have poor track records of getting the students who do graduates good work — often leaving them stuck with mountains of debt. To curb this phenomenon, the …
The Cold Equations
Sound accounting, yet vaguely creepy reading. The NYTimes explains why “As U.S. Agencies Put More Value on a Life, Businesses Fret“: As the players here remake the nation’s vast regulatory system, they have been grappling with a subject that is more the province of poets and philosophers than bureaucrats: what is the value of a …