Later On (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kevin Drum has a good post on our situation in California, which has become ungovernable and hugely debt-ridden. I think he’s right: things are not bad enough yet.
Later On (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kevin Drum this morning: The International Energy Administration is, supposedly, the gold standard for projections of future oil supply. In 2004 they projected that the world would produce 121 million barrels per day of crude oil. In 2005 they lowered that to 115 million bpd. Last year they lowered it again to 106 million bpd. Today, [...]
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Belated Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)We had our groceries delivered yesterday, neither of us feeling up to schlepping heavy bottles and cans up two flights. I stocked the larder today, which of course left an empty box for Amy:Today's photo day...
Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones gently pushes back at what’s effectively becoming a feminist ethnic slur before asking a really, really critical question about insurer’s reaction to the thuggish anti-abortion amendment in Saturday night’s House healthcare reform bill. God knows we liberal dudes can be clueless sometimes, but are any of us really saying that this is no big...
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Tort "reform" has the goal of making it difficult or impossible for private individuals to recover damages when a business damages them. Kevin Drum explains what actually happens in this article from the Jan/Feb 2007 issue Washington Monthly: The personal is political. So let’s take a personal tour of the American legal system as it’s currently [...]
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Kevin Drum has a post containing an email from a soldier who was on the scene.
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Kevin Drum: Congress passed something today. Hooray! Congress gave final approval Thursday for an additional $24 billion to help the jobless and support the housing market as climbing unemployment poses a growing liability for elected officials. The bill, passed overwhelmingly by the House and headed to President Obama for his signature Friday, extends unemployment insurance benefits...
They gave us a republic (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Kevin Drum brings us this eyewitness account: A former reader emails today to pass along a firsthand account of the shooting at Fort Hood on Thursday. It's unedited except for paragraph breaks: I was walking into the medical SRP building when he started firing (he never made it to the main SRP building....the media accounts are understandably pretty off right now). He was calmly and...
Backseat driving (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... at justice in a protected setting. I'll just refer back to Greenwald's outrage on this one. Also Kevin Drum on a related case : The CIA had invoked the state secrets privilege, insisting that the case against one of its agents be dropped because he was working covertly and his identity couldn't be revealed. And they kept insisting that even after his cover had been lifted. When Lamberth...
Sempringham (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
From Crooks and Liars : Michael Bloomberg spent a reported 105 million dollars on his re-election campaign, the same amount Norway donated in 2007 to The World Bank for a health care initiative for the poorest nations. And from Kevin Drum : Congress passed something today. Hooray! Congress gave final approval Thursday for an additional $24 billion to help the jobless and support the housing...
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Given how the South stands in any rankings by state, it is perhaps good that the South no longer dominates national discourse. But of course they are fearful now. Kevin Drum has a good post: After the election last November I noted that "for the first time since Reconstruction, the South will be almost completely shut [...]
Steam Powered Opinions (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Kevin Drum, ...if there's any broad lesson to be taken from Tuesday's election (about which I remain agnostic for the moment), it's this: independent voters are getting a little weary of endless political battles with no results. The problem is not that Congress is trying to tackle too much, but that Congress isn't getting anything done. That's the wake-up call. The answer to that is...
Phronesisaical (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... And I'm wondering if the additional pressure on the oceanic crust is making things pop up here. Kevin Drum raises a good question about what the banks are doing with the bailout money. This goes back to the question of motivators, it seems to me. When people have to make gambling-type profits, they're not going to be making loans to someone starting a business in their garage. Tapping...
Yes, Let's Talk About This (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Unquestionably, conservatives will attempt to spin gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey as somehow signaling a shift in national mood, but as Kevin Drum points out, when balanced with Democratic pick ups in the House in CA-10 and NY-23, it’s a bit more of a story of ousting the incumbents. What’s more, as Matt [...]
Movin' Meat (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... it would prohibit discrimination against "religious and spiritual healthcare." Well, as Kevin Drum says, "It's true that not everything that seems like a slippery slope really is one, but this really is one. If it passes, can you imagine how this would play out among the Colorado Springs set within a few years? The mind reels." Yeah, every religious group out there...
