http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/decade-of-the-living-dead/?s...

December 16, 2010, 1:32 PM
Decade of the Living Dead
Barry Ritholtz expresses amazement at the way the Fannie-Freddie-CRA lie — the claim that gubmint bureaucrats forced all those poor bankers into making bad loans — not only persists, but seems to be growing in influence.

But this story is hardly unique. Ever since I began writing for the Times — and probably before, but I wasn’t paying so much attention then — I’ve been struck over and over again by the unkillability of zombie lies.

I mean, supply-side economics should have been killed by the Clinton years: he raised taxes on the rich, everyone on the right predicted catastrophe, and what followed was 8 years of rapid growth and surging revenues, with the budget actually moving into surplus for the first time in three decades. But no: the right interpreted all the good stuff as a lagged effect of the 1981 tax cut (which meant that LBJ deserved credit for Morning in America, but who’s counting?)

Trying to avoid election results tonight because I think it will be so depressing. $4 billion spent. Major corporations and wealthy individuals allowed to spend unprecedented amounts with no disclosure. Is this really what we want in America? I think not.

God did not create the universe, says Hawking - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/lf_nm_life/us_britain_hawking

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/08/31/ost.recycling.good.news/index.html?...

Happy Anniversary to Brenda and Peter!!!!
Congratulations to you both!!!!

Interesting... rebukes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party establishment in Kentucky.

read this on Forbes.com

Paper is natural, plastic is artificial, so it might seem that brown bags are better. But paper production consumes massive amounts of fresh water, pollutes the water it doesn't use and is a major generator of hazardous air pollutants. It takes four times as much energy to produce a paper bag than it does plastic, and when they're dumped away in landfills, paper bags don't biodegrade any better than plastic. Best of all, plastic bags are easier to store and reuse.

by Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/leaving-the...

I cannot support a movement that...

http://www.corestandards.org/

The US flag should not be used as a point of argument but as a symbol of the solidarity that binds the diversity of our nation.

By Amy Hardin Turosak
from the October 20, 2009 edition

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1020/p09s01-coop.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/07/dems-discussing-public-op_n_313...

and

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/10/opt-me-out-of-public-option-puris...

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

-- Senator Ted Kennedy

I found this very interesting... :-)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106826971&sc=fb&cc=fp

I have never supported a Value Added Tax, but maybe it is time to start looking at alternatives. I do not necessarily agree with everything in this article, however it is worth a read. Thanks!

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/04/value-added-tax-opinions-columnists-bar...

How can you tell Dick Cheney is lying?

His lips are moving.

-- By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers

http://davidpogue.com/bio_photos/twitter.html

The surviving (and formerly feuding) members of the Grateful Dead had a secret impromptu meeting Monday evening with the man they credit with reuniting them: President Obama.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/04/obama_meets_privately_wi...

http://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress

as regards to prosecutorial misconduct?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21038.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped1001parkeroct01,0,...

It turns out that John McCain, while crusading against wasteful spending, specifically objected to three earmarks that Sarah Palin requested as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, including a dubious agricultural-processing facility designed to promote local produce. In fact, Palin has a consistent record of chasing the bacon that McCain has fought for years. She pulled in $27 million in earmarks as mayor, requested $450 million in earmarks as governor and even supported the state's notorious Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it. There isn't enough lipstick in Alaska to cover all that pork.

Aides to Gov. Sarah Palin won't comply with subpoenas issued by state lawmakers investigating the firing of Alaska's former public safety commissioner because Palin "has declined to participate" in the probe, her attorney general says. The chairman of the bipartisan panel behind the probe said the attorney general is breaking a week-old agreement.

A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial marketplace that proponents said would result in greater economic growth.

http://www.google.com/chrome

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31view.html

The two Great Partisan Divides combine to suggest that, if history is a guide, an Obama victory in November would lead to faster economic growth with less inequality, while a McCain victory would lead to slower economic growth with more inequality.