pounds-and-pence.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Sphere Two: The Common Wealth; United Kingdom , Australia, Canada, and South Africa. * Sphere Three: The Peoples Republic of China and Indonesia. * Sphere Four: (EU) European Union, [France, Germany; the Alliance], and Italy. … The American-Israeli Empire directly appoints the heads of the [IMF], which is basically the loan sharking department of the [...]
rubber hose (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
matthew yglesias highlights the description of living conditions in the gaza strip from lawrence wright's new yorker piece.i'm really curious what the justification for the ban on toys is. i suspect there isn't one. and the ice cream factory that was bombed or bulldozed.if you create conditions like this, you're asking for people to react violently to you. anyone would in those circumstances....
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
H/T: Matthew Yglesias Similar Posts:So Are We Headed For Another Great Depression ? John McCain’s Really Weird Ad Another Crazy Pastor On John McCain’s Bandwagon This Is Why I’d Never Attend A Party Hosted By Michelle Bachmann John McCain Was For Progressive Taxation Before He Was Against It
Got Shares? (Free subscription) | yesterday
... that no one jump to conclusions and take out any revenge against doctors or psychiatrists." Matthew Yglesias: "Lucky for us Christians never shoot anyone. Otherwise America might have the developed world's highest murder rate."
Open Left (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... $600 billion in spending to combat the effects of the recession. Smart pundits like Paul Krugman , Matthew Yglesias and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities keep talking about the need for a new WPA, a new Civilian Conservation Corps, and more grants to state and local governments to plug their budget gaps. Can't the Obama administration just use the remaining TARP money to...
freedarko.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Put your special listening glasses on, because we have an extraordinary double episode of FreeDarko Presents the Disciples of Clyde podcast! In the first half, Dan is joined by ThinkProgress blogger and Friend of FD Matthew Yglesias. The fellas talk economics, politics, and basketball. Donald Sterling, Rush Limbaugh, and state tax rates all get mentioned. Shoals is also in on the
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann is hosting a rally against the health care reform bill at the Capitol today. Matthew Yglesias passes along these photos: And, a closeup: Yea, sorry I can’t attend Michelle. The only nuts I want at my parties are in the bowl. Similar Posts:Wacky Michelle Bachmann: Let’s Slit Our Wrists And Take A Blood [...]
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Health Care, Dachau, Germany - 1945" From a blog post by the Center for American Progress' Matthew Yglesias : "Got Good Health Care? Let me cure that for you. Stop Obamunism." From a November 5 Huffington Post slide show : "OBAMA - Gov't TAKE OVER ... JUST LIKE NAZI GERMANY!" From the Huffington Post slide show : Pelosi: "UnAmerican McCarthyite."...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Center for American Progress' Matthew Yglesias brings us these images, originally taken by his colleague Lee Fang at this afternoon's anti-health care rally on Capitol Hill: That's the caption "National Socialist Health Care, Dachau, Germany - 1945" over the piled corpses of Holocaust victims. Fox News figures have spent the last few days aggressively promoting this rally....
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
...via Matthew Yglesias , this image of Holocaust victims was on display at today's " House Call " protest organized by Michele Bachmann and the Republican House Leadership: Take a closer look: Keep in mind that this wasn't some Glenn Beck-organized 9/12 stunt. This was an event staged by the House Republican leadership -- actual elected officials, members of the U.S. government....
pounds-and-pence.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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Later On (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Very interesting post by Matthew Yglesias: Ryan Avent asks what would happen if for just one year we spent as much on infrastructure investments as we do on the Department of Defense: With that kind of money you could entirely build out a national network of true high-speed rail. One year’s worth of defense spending gets you [...]
Bark Bark Woof Woof (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
After more than six months of promising a healthcare reform bill "any day now," House Minority Leader John Boehner trotted out the Republican version. Matthew Yglesias sums it up : If you’re uninsured, this won’t help you. If you’re insured, but you worry that circumstances beyond your control—a global financial meltdown leading to layoffs at your company,...
Connecting.the.Dots (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... nearly all Americans." One criticism of all this chaos can be easily dismissed--that, as Matthew Yglesias shows, "Obama needs to be nicer to Republicans." Lack of bipartisanship on health care is like accusing the President of refusing to play tennis when nobody is on the other side of the net. More important is the reality of Democratic Sen. Benjamin Cardin's observation,...
forward movement (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
That’s Matthew Yglesias looking mournfully, or maybe more accusatorily at this electoral map. Sounds like a vast swath of the American elecotrate needs its politics corrected: Odd choice of color schemes. I thought purple was the most progressive of hues, after “rainbow.” You’ll notice that even in my own very Democratically blue state of Massachusetts shows [...]...
