Last week, Fareed Zakaria — bless his anti-democracy Sinophilic soul — got a Cato flunkie to admit that 40% of Cato’s money his own research money came from the petroleum industry. This week, there’s a list of how much the various Think Tank ministers of propaganda make. Ed Feulner of Heritage makes almost a million …
C.R.E.A.M.
Another Downside to Globalization
From the NYTimes, “Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Moving From South Asia to U.S.“: A dangerous new mutation that makes some bacteria resistant to almost all antibiotics has become increasingly common in India and Pakistan and is being found in patients in Britain and the United States who got medical care in those countries, according to new studies. …
The Casino Stays Open
Matt Taibbi’s latest dissection of the dark arts of legislative sausage-making, “Wall Street’s Big Win: Finance reform won’t stop the high-risk gambling that wrecked the economy – and Republicans aren’t the only ones to blame” is up on the Rolling Stone website. Read the whole thing, but not while you’re eating, or if this is …
Early Morning Open Thread: Jobs for American IT Workers?
Had not heard about this particular “border bill” until I stumbled across the NYTimes article, but I know that corporate use of H-1B visas is not popular among American IT workers: A Senate bill approved Thursday night by unanimous consent would pay for more security along the Mexico border by raising fees for companies from …
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“Why Has He Fallen Short?”
Given the local fondness for Paul Krugman, I found this passage from Frank Rich’s review of Jonathan Alter’s The Promise for the NY Review of Books particularly interesting: … The Promise depicts a carelessness and dysfunctionality in the economic team that at times matches that revealed by Rolling Stone in the military and civilian leadership …
It Don’t Come Easy
This TPM story about Target’s abject apology for donating $150K to a Republican candidate with anti-gay positions illustrates that Citizens United isn’t a slam-dunk for corporations. Corporations have customers, those customers have a wide set of political interests, and companies have to think about how those customers will react when they jam money in some …
Florida politics
This isn’t getting as much attention as it deserves: whack-job millionaire Jeff Greene is now leading Kendrick Meeks in the Florida Democratic primary for US Senate. If Greene gets the nomination, I would expect the Democratic party to throw him under the bus and treat Charlie Crist as the de facto Democrat in the race. …