Tag: Around the Blogosphere

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

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Our friends at Firedoglake are finally back on line after nearly two days of server issues. There is lots of great articles that deserve a full read.

From Jon Walker at FDL Action:

• Eric Holder Proves He can Fear Monger with the Best of Them

At The Dissenter, Kevin Gosztola:

• The Justice Department’s Seizing of AP Phone Records: A Continuation of Attacks on Freedom of the Press
• Attorney General Eric Holder’s Contemptible Defense of the DoJ’s Seizure of AP Phone Records
• Attorney General Eric Holder Testifies Before the House Judiciary Committee (Live Updates)

At the News Desk, DSWright:

• Review Of IRS Data Shows Political Bias
• Obama White House Tries To Distance Itself From AP Spying Scandal By Citing Support For Bill It Lobbied Against
• Homeland Security Shuts Down Bitcoin Use By Startup Company

On economics, Dean Baker at Beat the Press:

• Did You See the “Air of Crisis” Hovering Around the Budget Deficit?
• How We Know that the Investment Industry Has No Argument Against Caps on 401(k)s
• Steven Pearlstein Tries to Rescue His Austerity Pushing Friends
• How Sick Is France’s Labor Market?

Paul Krugman at his blog Conscious of a Liberal:

• Austerity in the New York Review of Books
• About That Debt Crisis? Never Mind

Over at Corrente lambert continues his ObamaCare Clusterf**k and points an MMT article out that Platinum coin made it further than we ever imagined.

From Electroninc Frontier Foundation:

• Disappointing Unsealing Decision in Aaron Swartz Case
  
  by Cindy Cohn and Tim Trevor
• New Bipartisan Bill Proposes Real Fixes to Bad Copyright Law
  
  by Parker Higgins

Over at Grist:

• Utilities vs. rooftop solar: What the fight is about
  
  By David Roberts
• Americans’ main complaint about water is that it tastes too much like water
  
  By Sarah Miller
• Kosher salt: Don’t stress about sodium intake (unless you’re an average American)
  
  By Claire Thompson
• U.N. to world: “Eat your insects.”
  
  By John Upton

At ProPublica:

• On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated by Debt
  
  by Paul Kiel
• The Fed’s Credibility Problem
  
  by Kim Eisenger

Charles P. Pierce at Esquire’s Politics Blog gives us Unprecedented Precedents and lots of unrelated news.

And the last word from Atrios on the continued beatings.

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

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There is something going on other that the “Three Gates.”

From our friends at Corrente, economics contributor, letsgetitdone:

• Mr. President, End Debt Ceiling Hostage-taking for Good!

and a note from lambert about the outage at FDL that has been off line since yesterday. We are keeping out fingers crossed that Jane gets her server issues resolved soon. You can follow Jane’s tweets here for the latest on the site.

At AMERICAblog, from John Aravosis:

• Minnesota to become 12th state to legalize gay marriage
• Benghazi bombshell: Email supporting GOP “conspiracy” theory is fake

(I know I said no “gates” but it’s John)

and from Gaius Publius:

• Keith Ellison: “I don’t care what party you’re in. I’m in the Social Security party.”

David Dayen writing at New Republic, tells us how smarter shareholders are becoming activists and are about to claim their biggest “scalp”:

• Guerillas in the Boardroom

At his blog, Beat the Press, Dean Baker:

• Credit Rating Agencies Likely to Evade Dodd-Frank Provision to End Conflict of Interest
• Trade Deficits and the Dollar

From CounterPunch:

• The End of QE?
  
  by Mike Whitney
• The Elusive Minimum Wage
  
  by David Macaray
• The Real Gatsby
  
  by David Rosen

From the gang at Crooks and Liars:

• RNC Hispanic Outreach Chief Quits, Registers as Democrat
  
  By Susie Madrak
• Sen. Franken to Speak at SEC Roundtable on Credit Rating Industry Reform
  
  By Heather
• The 182 Percent Loan: How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers in a World of Hurt
  
  by  Paul Kiel, ProPublica

From the contributors at Grist:

• Vermont House passes GMO-labeling law by John Upton
• Occupy the Farm movement rises again, hours after being raided
  
  by John Upton
• London may soon be drinking recycled sewage
  
  by Sarah Laskow

Mike Konszal at The Next New Deal:

• Beta: Universal Basic Income Calculator

At New Economic Perspectives, Dan Kervick:

• Money, Taxes and What We Can Afford

The last words from Charles P. Pierce on The Clan of the Red Beanie and Responsible Gun Ownership.

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From Atrios, the scandal you won’t hear of today, or any other day:

Gaius Publius at Americablog, tells us how to become an activist by asking a question:

• Henry Waxman will support Chained CPI in trade for “things we want”

But just what is it that “we want”?

At Corrente, lambert‘s litany of the Obamacare Cluster F**k continues:

• ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Kremlinology
• ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Is Ross Douthat dumb enough to be a “progressive”?
• ObamaCare Clusterfuck: The IRS scandal and the ObamaCare “eligibility engine”

Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, gives a history of the similarities of Syria and Iraq:

• History Lessons the West Refuses to Learn

Also at Counterpunch, Binoy Kampmark on the effect of drone attacks on US/Pakistan relations:

• Stopping the Drones

On the failing American health care system, and Obama’s FHFA nominee Mel Watts, Yves Smith at naked capitalism:

• Coming Corporate Control of Medicine Will Throw Patients Under the Bus
• Mel Watt, Nominee to Head FHFA, Opposes Administration by Voting to Deregulate Derivatives

From Voices on the Square, contributors Cassiodurus and JayeRaye:

• Socialism is like total equality y’know.
• Hellraisers Journal: Big Bill Haywood exposes “The Rip in the Silk Industry.”

Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft, gives a peak at Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s conditions of confinement and the cost of a death penalty prosecution of Aurora Theater Shooting defendant James Holmes:

• Details on Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s Solitary Confinement
• The Cost of James Holmes Death Penalty Prosecution

From Grist, Sarah Laskow bursts a healthy fast food myth:

• Sorry, Jared, Subway food can be just as bad for you as McDonald’s

and from Sarah Miller, what could be eating your house:

• Hand-sized, house-eating snails show up in Texas

Charles P. Pierce in his wry wit at Esquire’s Politics Bog sums up the latest obsessions of the Sunday talking heads and the latest in the bizarre world of Rand Paul:

• What Are The Gobshites Saying These Days?
• Somebody Hit Bill Keller’s Knee With A Hammer
• Rand Paul’s Big Weekend

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At Voices on the Square, contributor Glinda gives us the latest bill by the House Republicans to screw workers:

• H.R. 1406: A Republican Bill to Upend Overtime Pay for Workers

From Gaius Publius all about big, bad corn at Americablog:

• Corn is bad for your body, your car & the environment

At his blog, Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman is trying to understand why the hedge funders are mad at Fed chair Ben Bernanke:

• I Am Become Ben, Destroyer of Worlds

and on Japan’s break up with austerity:

• The Moral Equivalent of Space Aliens

Need a job? Lambert at Corrente wants to know if Hillary supporters can apply for it:

• Equal opportunity employment at Daily Kos

and the continuing saga of the horrors of the ObamaCare Clusterfuck:

• CO rollout campaign doesn’t mention ObamaCare
• California exchange spending and contractors exempted from open records law

Also at Corrente, libbyliberal:

• Libby’s Stew: Gitmo & Obama’s Alarming Inertia

At FDL Action, Jon Walker alerts us about more shortcomings of Obamacare:

• “The Pool” Doesn’t Exist, That Is the Real Problem
• The Insanity of What Hospitals Charge and the Solution No One Is Talking About

At FDL’s The Dissenter, Kevin Gosztola reports on the FBI’s disregard of civil liberties and US drone policies:

• ACLU Obtains Documents Showing FBI Doesn’t Always Get Warrants Before Reading Emails
• Congressional Progressive Caucus Holds Hearing on US Drone Policies

Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel, on why some people just can’t atop digging:

• Harold Koh Relitigates the Argument He Already Lost

What Charles P. Pierce at Esquire’s Politics Blog said: On War Powers

and what Atrios said:

I’d love to be able to explain Benghazi to you all, but other than it has something to do with an Arkansas land deal gone bad I really have no idea.

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Paul Krugman on austerity and the deficit at Conscience of a Liberal:

• The Fix the Debt Fix Is Still In
• The Dwindling Deficit

At naked capitalism, Yves Smith exposes the latest string of lies from our new Treasury Secratary:

• Jack Lew’s Nose is Getting So Long He Needs a Hacksaw

At Corrente, lambert has another eye opener about the ObamaCare Clusterfuck:

• “Accountable Care Organizations” to throw “non-compliant” patients under the bus

and some thoughts on Hypermasculinity:

• One more reason Big Media is a public health hazard (with remarks on masculinity and fear)

At Beat the Press, economist Dean Baker continues to document what is wrong with The Washington Post:

• Why Does the Post Think It’s Bad News that the Republican Budget Strategy is Falling Apart?

and the decline in working hours:

• Someone Notices the Decline in Hours

Contributor Harry at Crooked Timber asks:

• When is copying not plagiarism?

Elise Gould at the Economic Policy Institute on the impact of health care costs:

• Increased health care cost sharing works as intended; It burdens patients who need care the most

Atrios pointed out this article at Think Progress:

• North Carolina May Force Teens To Get Notarized Parental Consent Before Getting STD Tests

And at Techdirt, Tim Cushing on the NYPD trashing civil liberties:

• NYPD Sergeant Says ‘Guilty Until Proven Innocent’ Is Just The Price We Pay For A ‘Free Society’

and from contributor Mike Masnick on just how low IP owners can go:

• Intellectual Property Owners Association Against Helping The Blind Because It Would ‘Set A Dangerous Precedent’

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

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At Beat the Press, Dean Baker gives a lesson in logic:

• Economics 101 for WAPO: Supply and Demand in the Labor Market

At Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman, defends his role in the ’08/’09 stimulus debate:

• The Stimulus Debate, Revisited;

and dissects John Maynard Keynes’ views on the liquidity trap:

• Keynes’s Not So Big Mistake.

From Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel continues to document the war crimes:

• Brennan Cedes to Feinstein on Torture Tape Destroyer But “Defiant” on Torture Report;
• Human Rights Groups: Don’t Let John Brennan Cover Up the Torture He Condoned.

Two articles by Jon Walker at FDL Action on Medicare:

• Study Takes on the Myth of Medicare Cost-Shifting;
• Why Insurance Exchanges Won’t Work: People Don’t Like Choosing Insurance

From Yves Smith at naked capitalism, an article by Robert H. Wade, a Professor of Political Economy, London School of Economics and a winner of the Leontief Prize in Economics for 2008:

• Our Misleading Measure of Income and Wealth Inequality: The Standard Gini Coefficient

While the news media has been gushing over guns, Benghazi (again) and the three women rescued in Cleveland, OH, the House of Representatives has been really busy aiding and abetting grand theft by the banks and Wall St., as noted by DSWright at FDL News Desk:

• House Moves To Gut Derivatives Regulations Again

Finally Charles P. Pierce at the Esquire’s Daily Politics Blog:

• Good Guys Are Not Bulletproof

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From CounterPunch a really good article by Jeffery St. Clair, on Obama’s The Game of Drones.

From Dean Baker at his blog Beat the Press: Tyler Cowen Recognizes Public Goods Problem of Pandemics: More Money for Drug Companies

At Corrente, letgetitdone posts Make ’em Prove the Causality before They Cause Any More Suffering: Part Two, the Fall and After

George Gideon Oliver Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Second Lord of the Treasury of the United Kingdom, is about to get “spanked” by the IMF for not “living it up and spending more.”, from Paul Krugman at Conscious of a Liberal: George Osborne’s Fear of Ghosts

Apparently austerity loving economist said something really, really offensive about John Maynard Keynes, get taken to the wood shed by Corey Robin at Crooked Timber: Edmund Burke to Niall Ferguson: You know nothing of my work. You mean my whole theory is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.

Over at FDL Book Salon, Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute: Welcomes Robert Kuttner, Debtors’ Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility

And a h/t to ql at Eschaton this morning noted this link from Avedon’s Sideshow to an article by David Roberts at Grist: Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

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From Gaius Publius at Americablog on climate change:

Climate crisis – where we’re headed, how much time is left

At his blog Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman

Medicaid Nonsense

Jim White reports on the ricin case arrest at emptywheel

The FBI’s Evidence Against the Genius Who Framed Elvis

At Voice on the Square, JayeRaye’s

Hellraisers Journal: “Shall Americanism or Unionism Rule?”

digby at Hullabaloo points out A big silver lining for deficit hawks

At Corrente, [letsgetitdone:

Make ’em Prove the Causality before They Cause Any More Suffering: Part One

and lambert continues to document the Obamacare atrocities:

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: New 3-page eligibility form may screw states that are farthest ahead on their exchange software

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: IL expected 16 insurance companies on its exchange, only 6 apply

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: SCOOP! IT Whistleblower shares systems diagram for ObamaCare “eligibility engine”

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Exchanges only expected to cover 7 million in first year

Dean Baker at his blog, Beat the Press:

The Housing Experts on the WAPO’s Rolodex Never Heard of Jumbo Mortgages

The main purpose our blogging is to communicate our ideas, opinions, and stories both fact and fiction. The best part about the the blogs is information that we might not find in our local news, even if we read it online. Sharing that information is important, especially if it educates, sparks conversation and new ideas. We have all found places that are our favorites that we read everyday, not everyone’s are the same. The Internet is a vast place. Unlike “Punting the Pundits which focuses on opinion pieces mostly from the mainstream media and the larger news web sites, “Around the Blogosphere” will focus more on the medium to smaller blogs and articles written by some of the anonymous and not so anonymous writers and links to some of the smaller pieces that don’t make it to “Pundits” by Krugman, Baker, etc.

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h/t to Yves Smith at naked capitalism for pointing out this article by Lynn Parramore at Alternet:

When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Epidemic That’s Sweeping America

Mike Styvers‘ at Truthout interview with Noam Chomsky:

Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama

From our friend Gaius Publius at Americablog:

Matt Yglesias resigns from the presumed-progressive community – with prejudice

At his blog Beat the Press, Dean Baker gives us the latest saga of the “Let Grandma Eat Cat Food” duo:

Morgan Stanley Director Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson Still Want to Cut Social Security and Medicare

More on the “Obamacare Clusterfuck” from our pal lambert who has been a real tear at his blog, Corrente:

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: OH rollout

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: ObamaCare will take three years to settle down, says new IA insurance commissioner

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Pundits say that after ObamaCare is in place, we can start to look at the real problems

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Improved application form to be introduced

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Small businesses in non-Medicaid states face big fines

Can somebody who actually understands health insurance benefits take a look at this and comment?

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Non-Medicaid states privilege legal immigrants over citizens

Over at FDL, The Dissenter Kevin Gosztola:

Former NYPD Head of Intelligence Analysis Uses Boston Bombing to Revive ‘Radicalization’ Report He Co-Authored

From Jon Walker at FDL’s Action:

What the FAA Fight Shows About the Danger of Obama’s Entitlement Reforms

Great must read piece from bmaz on the Constitution and the Miranda warning at emptywheel:

Tsarnaev: Right to Counsel, Not Miranda, Is the Key

The feds may have violated Tsarnaev’s constitutional rights:

Tucked in the body of this Los Angeles Times report is the startling revelation of Tsarnaev’s attempt to invoke:

   A senior congressional aide said Tsarnaev had asked several times for a lawyer, but that request was ignored since he was being questioned under the public safety exemption to the Miranda rule. The exemption allows defendants to be questioned about imminent threats, such as whether other plots are in the works or other plotters are on the loose.

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Corrente:

lambert has done several a posts on the Obamacare Clusterfuck that are well worth reading to truly understand what a corporate giveaway it is and how little it does for anyone. This is his latest entry

ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Here are the states where “the magic of the marketplace” will fail most spectacularly

VOTS:

Hellraisers Journal: Walmart Workers march to house of board member with Bangladesh fire survivor

by JayRaye

naked capitalism:

Reply to Reinhart and Rogoff’s NYT Response to Critics

by Warren Mosler

Medical Journal Editorial Blasts Obamacare for Increasing Underinsurance

by Yves Smith

MyFDL:

The Rise of the Corporate State

by masaccio

FDL Action:

Why the Sequester Strategy Is Doomed to Fail

by Jon Walker

FDL Dissenter:

SF Pride President Capitulates to Military Groups, Announces Bradley Manning Won’t Be Honored

by Kevin Gosztola

Matt Tailbbi at Rolling Stone:

While Wronged Homeowners Got $300 Apiece in Foreclosure Settlement, Consultants Who Helped Protect Banks Got $2 Billion

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever

Paul Krugman at Conscience of a Liberal:

Knaves, Fools, and Me (Meta)

The Great Degrader

The American Prospect:

Banking Regulation: Closed for Business

by David Dayen

Dean Baker at Beat the Press:

Reinhart and Rogoff #61,346: Stevenson and Wolfers Edition

Robert Samuelson Tells the Middle Class and Poor that they Should Stop Expecting to Have Decent Lives Because His Rich Friends Want All the Money

Excel Errors, Debt, and Stimulus: Is Our Politicians Learning?

Washington Post Editorial Condemns Austerity in Europe!