Los Angeles rocked and rolled its way through a 5.8 earthquake shortly before noon today. In California, that's considered a good middling-size shake -- enough to throw stuff off bookshelves, pop tile off the walls, instigate minor power and phone interruptions, and crack patios. more »
Rick blogged yesterday on the collapsing roads and bridges of Denton County, Texas. Unsurprisingly, it's happening in other places, too. From today's Arizona Star:
When the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional right of habeas corpus for prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, progressives missed an opportunity to present the issue within the strongest possible message frame. After years of warrantless wiretapping, illegal imprisonment and torture, we should all be saying the F-word with regularity.
One of the grandest -- and most frustrating -- things about carrying on the great democratic conversation via blog is finding out how many of your fellow citizens (including many who are nominally on your side) turn out to be looking at the world from a completely different set of assumptions than you are. more »
What could David Broder possibly be drinking? Has he forgotten the John McCain who voted against the Bush tax cuts, but now embraces them — or the McCain who could have blocked the administration's torture policies, but instead empowered Bush to define torture — just to “prevail” in the “contest” for the Republican nomination? The commentariat will have to choose between their affection for McCain and their commitment to common sense. Their choice should be instructive. If they follow Broder's example, that will be the Democrats' worst nightmare.
The world has changed. The market fundamentalism that has dominated our economics over last three decades has been unmasked as a sham, deemed useless by the guardian of the integrity of finance itself, the Federal Reserve.
Remember the Enron employees who watched their retirement savings evaporate as the Enron ponzi scheme, chaired by George Bush’s best buddy, “Kenny Boy” Lay, went up in smoke?
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court just told them all: “Drop Dead.” more »
I missed president Obama's press conference last week. And, thanks to the blogosphere bringing me up to speed, I know I missed a moment that would surely have had me yelling, "Are you kidding me!?" at the television screen.
At first, it might seem a bit odd that Bank of America and Citigroup paid for a conference call to coordinate a campaign against the Employee Free Choice Act. more »
The "Greed is good era" is over. It died on September 15, 2008 with the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the right wing myth that if everyone looks out for his own self interest the "invisible hand" would assure that the public interest would take care of itself. More than Lehman Brothers went bankrupt that day. So did Wall Street's entire system of "greed is good" values.
"Americans don't need socialized medicine!" Uncle Con bellows. You really want to stop Uncle Con in mid-breath? Simple. Recite these statistics concerning who already gets most or all of their health care via some form of government-subsidized system.
Conservative leaders in the House have promised "innovative solutions" to help the Obama administration revive the economy, but what they actually offered on Thursday on Capitol Hill was the intellectual equivalent of well-used stuff put up for bid on eBay in a desperate bid for pocket change. more »
On Christmas Eve, I appeared on Fox News to discuss the upcoming economic recovery package, only to be told that FDR's New Deal "prolonged the Great Depression" (you can watch the clip here). more »
There are defining moments in politics. Republicans have defined themselves. They are not free market conservatives, for they were willing to do the bailout. They don’t object to nationalizing the banks or micromanaging the auto industry on the fly. They are class warriors, willing to risk a worse global economic calamity in order to break a union, to force workers into bankruptcy. Herbert Hoover time. Happy Holidays, too.
Surprise, surprise - Howard Fineman joins fellow Newsweeker John Meacham, Wall Street Journal sycophant Peggy Noonan and other elders of the Elite Media Village in freaking out about an Obama presidency and how it might act more »
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