Digby alerts us that “Fix the Debt”, aka “Steal the Trust Fund”, is still on the loose, and they are coming for the Yoot: The shrieking cries of the fiscal hawks may be somewhat muted with the news that the deficit is shrinking, austerity is a bust and that they’ve achieved their fondest wish of …
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Open Thread: Buzzfeed Ben Smith’s Koch Habit
For your temporary delection, Yasha Levine takes a big steamy NSFWCorp dump on journalist-for-rent Ben Smith: … Visiting BuzzFeed.com, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The site’s entire “Politics” subsection was plastered with the name of Charles Koch, the world’s scariest billionaire-brother, who runs the biggest private company in America. His name boomed out …
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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Buy ‘Em?
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 …
Gun nuts: please stop protecting us. Really. We mean it.
Our self-appointed citizen militia may need more training before we put them in elementary schools: When Kolton McKinney, 12, unfolded the seat in a Tillamook movie theater Wednesday morning and heard a “plink,” he thought a part of the seat might have fallen out. Then the boy heard friend Levi Crabtree say, “Dude, there’s a …
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Meanwhile, in Michigan
While we are counting the corpses in Connecticut, Gov. Rick Snyder is about to sign this atrocity: The most sweeping rewrite of Michigan’s concealed handgun law in more than a decade includes details that go well beyond opening so-called “gun free zones” to hidden weapons. The state House on Thursday passed the bill 68-41 and …
It’s not altruism
How plutocrats relieve moral tension: Chrystia Freeland is editor of Thomson Reuters Digital and author of “The Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.” We spoke Tuesday about how the plutocrats she reported on for the book were handling Mitt Romney’s loss. A lightly edited transcript of …
Late Night Open Thread: Nosferatu at the RNC
Jane Mayer, at the New Yorker, catches David Koch stepping “Out of the Shadows“: … David Koch, the co-owner of America’s second largest private company, Koch Industries, an oil, pipeline, chemical, lumber, and finance conglomerate that has been called “the Standard Oil of our times,” has historically been press-shy. But he used the occasion of …
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