Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual on May 13th, 2008
Interesting look at how Latino immigrants are systematically mistreated in the south:
Reverend Lowery, who now leads the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, has spoken eloquently and vociferously against what he considers “wicked” immigration policies and has attended pro-immigrant rallies. He believes that massive immigration to the United States came about because of the […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Class War, Politics As Usual on May 10th, 2008
Oh, just go read the whole thing.
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on May 9th, 2008
Krugman:
What about polls that still seem to give John McCain a good chance of winning? Pay no attention, say the experts: general election polls this early tell you almost nothing about what will happen in November. Remember 1992: as late as June, Gallup put Ross Perot in first place, Bill Clinton in third.
There’s just one […]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Recession Depression on May 8th, 2008
Link:
Jay Butler, who teaches real estate at Arizona State University, said of the builders, “They really weren’t building homes. They were building mortgages that they could put into mortgage-backed securities in order to sell them to investors in China and France.“
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on May 8th, 2008
When Matt Taibbi’s bad, he’s bad. And when he’s good, he’s good:
But if we recognize that, we must also recognize what we have in Hillary Clinton: a once-in-a-generation political pugilist who, like her much smoother adversary, is amazingly capable of turning weakness into strength. Pitted against physical beauty and inspirational rhetoric, Hillary made herself the […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Class War, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression on May 5th, 2008
I really loved the outrage over Clinton’s comments about economists when it wasn’t so very long ago that the majority of them were still insisting the economy was In Great Shape and there was no recession, nope, everything was fine and getting better. But then, I’m not invested in protecting the academic class, which gives […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Class War, Fuck the Poor, General on May 5th, 2008
While some “progressive” bloggers make fun of the $30 people might get from a gas tax holiday, Lambert reminds us that it’s food money to people on the edge.
I know; I’ve been there. It wasn’t that long ago that I lived on $12,000 a year, and made grocery money by carting things onto the sidewalk […]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Disastrous, Politics As Usual on May 3rd, 2008
More of that great Republican leadership we admire:
WASHINGTON — As the farm economy collapsed in the 1980s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was saddled with mountains of surplus cheese, corn and other foods that it socked away in warehouses and even caves.
As recently as 2003, the USDA had to buy so much powdered milk to […]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Disastrous, Fuck the Poor on Apr 30th, 2008
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
John Maxwell from the Jamaica Observer on where the world financial system has now focused their “expertise”:
The food supplies of […]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Apr 28th, 2008
Industry analysts predict it in a few years:
“Get ready for another economic shock of major proportions — a virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon.
That’s the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based on the surging oil prices, see considerably more […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 28th, 2008
Here we go again:
Eight years after the debacle of “hanging chads,” Florida once again seems to be courting electoral trouble. A handful of laws have been passed since the 2000 presidential recount, with state officials saying they bring order to a chaotic system.
“Some say we err on the side of caution,” said Joe Pickens, a […]
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on Apr 27th, 2008
Anglachel on the race strategy of the Obama campaign and the Democratic leadership:
So, the party leadership perceives the insecting location of race (white) and class (lunch-bucket) as the point of failure for the political left, believing that all dangerous, divise elements of the party are quarantined there. The party need only worry about keeping the […]
Posted in Class War, Life in the Big City on Apr 25th, 2008
I hate to comment on individual cases when I wasn’t sitting on the jury, but damn, cops are always acquitted no matter what, aren’t they? Fifty shots…
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on Apr 25th, 2008
Krugman:
According to many Obama supporters, it’s all Hillary’s fault. If she hadn’t launched all those vile, negative attacks on their hero — if she had just gone away — his aura would be intact, and his mission of unifying America still on track.
Let me offer an alternative suggestion: maybe his transformational campaign isn’t winning over […]
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on Apr 22nd, 2008
Tom Ferrick, an Inquirer columnist who left to go work for a local good government group, talks about street money:
Philadelphia is a living museum of American history, where the political machine, though it wheezes and gasps, still functions much as it did 100 years ago. Then, a political campaign was a labor-intensive activity. It took […]
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on Apr 21st, 2008
In his first column for the Wall St. Journal (h/t Corrente):
If Barack Obama or anyone else really cares to know what I think, I will simplify it all down to this. The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to […]
Posted in Class War, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual on Apr 21st, 2008
Look what happens when you gut education spending. (Love those propositions!) Who could have known?
With baby boomers preparing to retire as the best educated and most skilled workforce in U.S. history, a growing chorus of demographers and labor experts is raising concerns that workers in California and the nation lack the critical skills needed to […]
Posted in Class War, Fuck the Poor on Apr 20th, 2008
Alvin Thomas, 54.
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 20th, 2008
So what happens next? (h/t Sarah at Corrente)
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration violated federal law last year when it restricted states’ ability to provide health insurance to children of middle-income families, and its new policy is therefore unenforceable, lawyers from the Government Accountability Office said Friday.
The ruling strengthens the hand of at least 22 states, […]
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on Apr 18th, 2008
Krugman:
I was impressed by Mr. Frank’s book when it came out. But my Princeton colleague Larry Bartels, who had an Op-Ed in The Times on Thursday, convinced me that Mr. Frank was mostly wrong.
In his Op-Ed, Mr. Bartels cited data showing that small-town, working-class Americans are actually less likely than affluent metropolitan residents to vote […]
Posted in Class War, My So-Called Life on Apr 18th, 2008
I went to get my hair cut last night, and my cutter and I got to talking about politics. Guess who my tattooed, heavily-pierced stylist supports?
Hillary Clinton.
“Every time I pick up Rolling Stone, it’s Obama this, Obama that,” he said. (He’s also a musician.) “I mean, what the fuck? People I know keep wanting to […]
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on Apr 15th, 2008
You know, I was talking about this kind of class snobbery in the Democratic party long before Barack Obama showed up:
Now consider the disturbing way that mainstream progressive thinkers and strategists discuss working-class white voters in terms of demeaning stereotypes. Working-class Catholic voters in the industrial states used to be “hardhats.” Now they are “Archie […]
Posted in Class War, Fuck the Poor, Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Apr 14th, 2008
But not enough:
(CBS/AP) President Bush on Monday ordered the release of $200 million in emergency aid to help nations where surging food prices have deepened hunger woes and sparked violent protests.
The move comes one day after the president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, called on the international community to act urgently in helping needy […]
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on Apr 13th, 2008
From Anglachel:
I’ll say what Brad Delong, Markos, Ezra Klein, Big Media Matt and the Guy who Kidnapped Josh Marshall (GKJM) will not: The people currently arguing about the alleged racism of Hillary voters are exactly the people who most materially benefit from the existence of white privilege in this nation. That means YOU, boyz. People […]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 12th, 2008
Crunching the numbers.
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