Too bad no one in government, nor their lackie media, nor their loyal TEAM players will pay attention. The deficit debate is often misleading, however, because it tends to ignore a huge difference between the two kinds of deficit reduction. The evidence speaks loud and clear: when governments reduce deficits by raising taxes, they are […]
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Is it bad that the only thing that caught my attention in this blog post was that I’m paying for this guy’s solar panels?1 It would have been more honest of him to have sold the weed, and used the proceeds to buy his own goddamn peace of mind concerning his electricity usage. Buy your […]
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Teachers locking 5 year olds in a dark closet, then leaving him in there after school is out: A kindergarten teacher in Caldwell has been investigated for isolating a 5-year-old boy in a dark room at school for at least an hour. And that’s just the beginning of the investigation. The kindergarten teacher forgot she […]
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Not even a state sponsored media could lick more boot. Politico: For the better part of four years, progressive media has had President Barack Obama’s back. Now that he’s won re-election, it is faced with a choice: Should the left continue always to play the loyal attack dog against the GOP, blaming the opposition at […]
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Rand Paul The Terrible: I rise today in support of Sen. Feinstein’s amendment. I compliment her on her work. And I also echo the importance of the right to trial by jury. In fact, I’m appalled that anyone would think that we could arrest anyone in our country without charging them and giving them a […]
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The quality of many incoming teachers is such that they conspire with an insider to cheat their way to a certification. Federal prosecutors in Memphis are investigating an educator who they say ran a test cheating ring in three Southern states for teachers and prospective teachers who wanted to pass standardized certification exams. [. . […]
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Via Glenn Greenwald: Maybe the best solution is not to have some lavish, baroque inauguration ceremony befitting an Emperor Well said.
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Senator Obama on the right to confront your government accusers: Of course this was before he granted himself the power to kill any American citizen without congressional or judicial review. Now it’s okay because “Fuck you, that’s why.”
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The language butchers of Team BLUE: These findings suggest that 401(k) plans and their brethren—which cost the U.S. government as much as $100 billion a year in lost revenue— . . . Because, you know, money that you go out and fucking earns doesn’t belong to you; it belongs to government, and them not taking […]
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When you have a program that so secret that you simply can’t allow it to be subject to judicial overview, yet not so secret that you can share it with The New York Times, what “information” we have is called propaganda.
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