Monthly Archives: July 2011

Basically stealing my post today from Fred Clark, who links to two excellent posts by Kevin Drum dismantling the oft-repeated lie, most recently trumpeted by supposed pastor Rick Warren, that “half of all Americans pay no taxes.” Drum first points … Continue reading →

Sara at Prison Law Blog writes that Louisiana has too many prison cells and not enough prisoners, while West Virginia has the opposite problem. Unfortunately, the West Virginia constitution prohibits transporting prisoners out of state. Well, I’ve searched for “crime,” … Continue reading →

Michael Lind writes depressingly in Salon of the coming collapse of protected elite professional sectors and the likely rise of populist nativism. I don’t have a lot to add, and I’m not sure if I buy it or not, but … Continue reading →

Last week I wrote that the argument over the debt ceiling was pure showmanship, that the Republican leadership fully intends to vote “yes” at the last minute, but that they’re taking things to the brink in order to extract more … Continue reading →

Several bloggers at The Atlantic are piling on about this egregiously wrong-headed post by Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, in which she speculates that the recent bombing and shootings in Norway prove how dangerous it would be to cut … Continue reading →

Megan McArdle of The Atlantic has a pretty amusing post up about people who contend that if we don’t raise the debt ceiling, we’ll still have “plenty of money for debt service, military payrolls, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.” While … Continue reading →

On Pandora I have a “Flight Of The Conchords” channel. The Conchords, as you probably know, are New Zealand’s 4th most popular folk parody duo, who lovingly — gleefully! parodically! — skip along the top of various genres, including hip-hop. … Continue reading →

I swear to God, if the Republicans could get it together to nominate Gary Johnson, they could steal half the left. But they won’t. Four more years! Four more years!

(Headline by way of this Onion classic.) Now here comes the part where I basically steal a whole Adam Serwer blog post, because he is right on every point and McConnell is an idiot: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell…: “These … Continue reading →

Via Kevin at GitM — James Galbraith repeats his contention that there is no skyrocketing debt in our futures: The projections, as I’ve written here, are made up of two economically impossible arguments. One is that there will be a … Continue reading →