Mourdock’s response to Supreme Court ruling
Howey has Mourdock’s response to the Supreme Court’s rejection of his attempts to delay the Chrysler bankruptcy deal: “I am disappointed to have learned that the U.S. Supreme Court has lifted the stay in the Chrysler bankruptcy case thereby allowing…
Lou Barlow at Landlocked Records – “Brand New Love”
Lou Barlow at Landlocked Records – “Brand New Love” I was there – just about 5-6 feet in front of Lou.
Framing EFCA: Who Has A Choice?
Now that conservative Alaska Rep. Don Young has spilled the beans on the right-wing lie about the Employee Free Choice Act (hint: it doesn’t take away the secret ballot), it’s worth looking at the horrendous job that Democrats and other…
Indiana’s Healthcare Fight and America
The May 28th edition of The Economist features a story on the fight for health care reform in Indiana, and includes quotes from Bush’s Man Mitch, State Sen. Luke Kenley, and Dr. Rob Stone. On May 20, Hoosiers for a…
“Government doesn’t provide services to rich people”
“Government doesn’t provide services to rich people,” Mike Genest, the state’s finance director, said on a conference call with reporters on Friday. “It doesn’t even really provide services to the middle class.” –New York Times
GOP Delegation Propagating Cap & Trade Lie
As reverentandfree pointed out in an earlier diary, Mike Pence is traveling around the country spreading lies (or, in reverentandfree’s gentler terms, “discredited claims”) about the costs of Cap & Trade legislation. However, the problem isn’t limited to Rep. Pence,…
“When torture was all the fault of poor, ugly hillbillies…”
It’s funny that when torture was all the fault of poor, ugly hillbillies of the sort David Brooks writes about in his Adventure Stories for Young Aristocrats, we had to throw the book at the evil-doers. Now that important figures…
When experts go wrong
“When experts get something big wrong, it’s not time to abandon the whole idea of expertise or technical competence; it’s time either to get a new batch of experts, or to ensure that those who got things wrong understand their…