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Jul 02 · The book I just read is in the running, in my estimation, for second-best text on how to undo the imperial presidency. (Can't be first, of course.) It's called "Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy," by Peter M. Shane, and it's much more about what the problem is than how to solve it, but the two things are not really separable, and the analysis of the problem here is invaluable.
This is a detailed and extensively researched look at the interactions among th
Jul 02 · From The Plum Line:
“We have 60 votes on paper,” Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said Wednesday in an interview. “But we cannot bulldoze anybody; it doesn’t work that way. My caucus doesn’t allow it. And we have a very diverse group of senators philosophically. I am not this morning suddenly flexing my muscles.”…
“One or two could peel off on any issue,” said Mr. Reid, who has seen the ranks of his party swell by 15 in the past two elections.
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That said, Re
Jul 02 · More great entries this month... please k&r so everyone gets a chance to vote!
Jul 01 · Debt is capitalism’s dirty little secret
By Ben Funnell
Published: June 30 2009 19:14 | Last updated: June 30 2009 19:14
Just why is there so much debt in the Anglo-Saxon world? Bankers and regulators know well that it is in nobody’s long-term interests to have allowed borrowing to escalate to a position where the US now owes far more, as a multiple of the economy, than at the start of the Great Depression.
The answer is capitalism’s dirty little secret: excessive lending was the o
Jul 01 · I read part of the following article with surprise, guess I was thinking it would just be expanding Medicare and making some changes...or at least along those lines. Maybe I am reading it wrong, maybe it doesn't matter...but just surprised. I think there has to be competition, or no progress will be lasting.
Many people on Medicare now would be uninsurable because of their age and illnesses. I guess, though, if they have another "public option" set up....it would have the policy of allowin
Jul 01 ·
By Cenk Uygur
The NY Post is run by Rupert Murdoch to further his conservative agenda. . The Washington Times is run by Rev. Sun Myung Moon to further his conservative agenda. By some estimates Rev. Moon has has never been profitable. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is run by Richard Mellon Scaife to further his conservative agenda. .
The Weekly Standard used to be owned by Murdoch to further his conservative agenda but is now owned by Philip Anschutz to further his conservative agenda.
Jul 01 · Three days before the end of his Presidency, on January 17, 1961 President Eisenhower warned us against:
the acquisition of unwarranted influence… by the military-industrial complex: the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power (which) exists and will persist, (which) we must never let … endanger our liberties or democratic processes…
has often been characterized as prophetic. However, it may just as well be characterized as a little too little and too late. James Douglass,
Jul 01 · "Pete Seeger interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Monday, September 4, 2006"
He tells Amy Goodman that he wrote President Kennedy that a favorite poem of his was written by Seeger's uncle during WWI. The uncle's name was Alan Seeger, and the poem Pete quotes on the video is called Rendezvous or "I Have a Rendezvous With Death."
Pete Seeger has quite a family heritage of having a way with words.
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring com
Jul 01 · I. Forty Years Ago....
Last fall I wrote “Educating Huckabee: The Terrible History of Systematic Violence Directed at Gays” after the former presidential candidate said that gays and lesbians do not need civil rights protection, because they have never been the victims of organized violence like members of racial minorities.
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One of the events about which I sought to “educate” Huck occurred forty years ago, on June 27, 1969 in New York, when the police raided the Ston
Jul 01 · You would think that if you cheered your senator when he stated that the loser in an election should concede in the best interests of the people, and then he refused to concede when he lost, you would at least notice the self-serving hypocrisy.
You would think that if you heard a radio or TV personality constantly promoting hatred and violence against groups of people or individual fellow citizens, you would question their decency and love of country - and, every now and again, their sanity.
Jul 01 ·
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Jul 01 · Do they have a fourth of July in Italy? That's not a trick question. This July 4th, Italians plan to gather in Vicenza to take nonviolent action aimed at freeing Italy from U.S. occupation and opposing the proposed construction of an enormous new U.S. military base in a town already swarming with U.S. troops stationed at existing bases. For years now, a major campaign organized by local residents has resisted the construction of the new base. The history of this campaign is chronicled in Eng
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