Kentucky elected a baptist minister to their House and he sneaks in an amendment mandating that a state agency acknowledge God in it's official duties. From the Lexington News: (h/t Ed Brayton) The 2006 law organizing the state … [Read more...]
Why tackling health care should be issue no. 1
More Ezra: Then there is Medicare. Medicare is a trickier problem. Because it's not the problem: The American health care system is. As Henry Aaron, the centrist Brookings health care expert has testified, our fiscal threats "derive … [Read more...]
Transparency for the $700B… Not!
Ed Brayton alerts us to the treasury's idea of transparency: On October 13th, the Interim Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability at the Treasury Department, gave a talk to the Institute of International Bankers. Among the many things … [Read more...]
Forclosure Caging Lawsuit Settled… Did the DNC Cave?
(cross-posted at Left in Lowell) It seems that the RNC and DNC settled the DNC lawsuit on the GOPs plan to use foreclosures to challenge voters at the polls. The Michigan Messenger: Here is the text of the joint statement released by the … [Read more...]
Casting Joe the Plumber II: The Quest for More Cred
Looks like the McCain campaign has a contest: ...we want to hear from you and share your story with the American public. It's simple ... make an ad telling us why you are "Joe the Plumber" in 30 seconds and your video could end up on the … [Read more...]
Policy proposed to define independent bloggers out of “the news media”
Of course the sticky wicket is that if there are no rules as to who can be defined as 'news media', then there is no way to distinguished who can sit in on the meeting and who can't. Clearly the original rule was intended to … [Read more...]
Palin IS available for questions… Honest!
Ask her yourself. H/T Ed Brayton … [Read more...]
Gay Couples Excised from Yearbook
Ed Brayton notes that the school board of Clovis, New Mexico, couldn't stand by and let a picture of an actual gay couple get published in the yearbook. Here's your bigoted overreaction of the day: the Clovis school board in New Mexico is … [Read more...]
Why not Chapter 11?
Since we do not have time for a Chapter 11 and we do not want to bail out all the creditors, the lesser evil is to do what judges do in contentious and overextended bankruptcy processes: to cram down a restructuring plan on creditors, where … [Read more...]
Former Publisher of National Review Endorses Obama
Wick Allison, former publisher of the National Review and staunch conservative, has endorsed Obama: THE MORE I LISTEN TO AND READ ABOUT "the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate," the more I like him. Barack Obama strikes a chord … [Read more...]
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