Founding Father ≠ Christian
This diary was inspired by a comment from Dave Neiwert, quoted in ID-01: Sali's Follies by mcjoan. In his otherwise excellent rebuttal of Rep. Bill Sali's radical views, Neiwert allows that our country...
View ArticleThis Road to Hell was Paved by MBAs
Over roughly the last quarter century, a once-obscure graduate degree has come to have a wide-reaching, if widely overlooked, influence on our society. The Masters of Business Administration degree,...
View ArticleBombing Iran: What Is Bush Waiting For?
Since rumblings of a bombing campaign against Iran continue to emanate from sources close to and within the Bush administration, we need to ask the following questions: 1) What would be their objective...
View ArticleVaporware: How the Bush Administration is like Microsoft
Don't blame me for this analogy. They're the ones who proclaimed August dead time for new products. So let's compare them to one of the most successful corporations in the world...
View ArticleSusan Eisenhower endorses Obama
From today's Washington Post:Why I'm Backing ObamaBy Susan Eisenhower Saturday, February 2, 2008; Page A15Forty-seven years ago, my grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower bid farewell to a nation he had...
View ArticleClinton, Edwards, Obama -- and Experience
Senator Clinton's supporters trumpet her "experience" as proving only she has what it takes to change this country and get it back on the right track. But Senators Kennedy and Kerry, among many others...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Obama and JFK
When Caroline Kennedy titled her endorsement of Barack Obama "A President Like My Father", she created a small opening for Senator Obama's critics, and of course some seized it. Although Ms. Kennedy...
View ArticleMark Penn is at it again
From the NY Times:"We believe that Hillary Clinton in the long run is better position to take on John McCain," Mr. Penn told reporters. "She has consistently shown an electoral resiliency in difficult...
View ArticleHillary: Super Delegates are "Automatic Delegates"
From over at Talking Point Memo:In a sign that the spin war over the significance of super-delegates is underway in earnest, Harold Ickes told assorted Hillary supporters on a private conference call...
View ArticleObama and Gay Rights
In at least their first term in the White House, it is unlikely the next president will do much to advance the cause of gay rights, whatever their position on the relevant issues. There's a war to end,...
View ArticleWill Hillary make a third party bid?
Hillary Clinton clearly wants to be president and wants it bad. She shows every sign of fighting to the death for the Democratic nomination. Consider this diary:Wolfson is a lie: they are going after...
View ArticleHope Is A Debt We Owe Our Children
No one ever asked to be born, as many an angry teenager has loudly proclaimed. I was one of those teenagers once. When fighting with my mother and stepfather, I was not above reminding them that being...
View ArticleThis Recession Looks Like A Depression From Here
Economists and investors and financial professionals watch all sorts of "leading indicators", statistics that may point the direction the economy is headed. I'd like to talk about a different set of...
View ArticleGreen Party Petition Signature Fraud in Arizona
I just got off the phone with a detective from the Pima County District Attorney's office. He's investigating signature fraud on a petition seeking Green Party recognition here in the county. He said...
View ArticleBailout: Bankers Should Pay from Their Wealth
Back in the Go Go Eighties, at the beginning of the deregulation that we are now being asked to pay for, I worked on Wall Street. With my freshly minted bachelor's degree, I made as much as my father...
View ArticleA Little Public Option Math
IN ALL HONESTY, maybe the title of this diary should be "A VERY Little Public Option Math".In which I offer a hasty scratchpad analysis of the poll numbers I'm seeing...
View ArticleLike I been sayin'... it's the poor who spend money
For a long time now I've been cornering anyone who will listen to tell them how we can solve a lot of our problems at once: get the economy growing again, which means creating jobs, help the people who...
View ArticleWho needs this tax deal?
Reading the current recommended diaries can give you a serious case of cognitive dissonance. At the heart of all that tension is the tax deal many of us love to hate and many hate to love. Which brings...
View ArticleCops on Steroids and OWS Violence
It occurred to me that steroid abuse among police officers could be a contributing factor to the low flashpoint for violence at the Occupy protests. A quick Google search yields results like the...
View ArticleWall Street and the Clintons
From the Guardian:More than 23 years following Bill Clinton’s election, Wall Street is very much intertwined with the Clintons: they helped fundamentally change Wall Street, and Wall Street...
View ArticleQuad-City Times endorses Sanders
Didn’t see this anywhere else on DKos, but I admit I could have looked harder:Democratic Endorsement: Only Sanders can shift the Democratic paradigmAmericans are tired of the hollow rhetoric. They're...
View ArticleAn open letter to a boy who is bad and from brooklyn but I can't use his name...
Dear BBB,Do you mind if I call you that?Here’s my understanding of your position on the current election cycle:Bernie Sanders can’t win the nomination because he doesn’t have enough support among...
View ArticleIt's economics, stupid
For those of you who may not be aware of the reference made in the title above:"It's the economy, stupid" is a slight variation of the phrase "The economy, stupid" which James Carville had coined as a...
View ArticleIncome Inequality Kills
Income inequality does not mean that the rich are getting richer and the rest of us are jealous at being left behind. Which seems to be what too many believe.Income inequality means that the rich are...
View ArticleClinton's Closing Statement
Her embrace of Henry Kissinger is rightly getting most of the attention this morning, but I believe what candidate Clinton said at the end of the debate also deserves scrutiny. I have to get back to...
View ArticleYes, Dorothy, Wall Street's business model is built on fraud
I read some comments on this site yesterday from finance professionals complaining about broad brush strokes condemning their profession. How unfair it is to be told their industry is corrupt when they...
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