“I never saw him, I never met him.” says John Lewis about Bernie Sanders after the Congressional Black Caucus political action committee endorsed Hillary Clinton. Lewis has since walked back his statement and admittedly the Civil Rights movement was a big one, to imply that all Chinese people must know each other because of their …
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Feb 17 2016
So, Television.
Look, you couldn’t pay me to watch most of this crap but perhaps your stomach is stronger than mine so I offer it in case you need to get your fix. Tonight CNN South Carolina Town Hall with Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson MSNBC All Trump all the time with Joe Scarborough and …
Feb 17 2016
You Say You Want A Revolution?
Unfortunately, we’ve already had one. The issue is not Hillary Clinton’s Wall St links but Democrats’ core dogmas Thomas Frank, The Guardian Tuesday 16 February 2016 17.01 EST (W)hat voters are rejecting is not Hillary the Capable; it is the party whose leadership faction she represents as well as the direction in which our modern …
Feb 17 2016
More on Piketty
Not that I’m responsible, just that I’m prescient. Yesterday I pointed out a very important piece by Thomas Piketty over at The Guardian and overnight interest among a certain class of economic observers (the left ones) has spiked. Ed Walker (masaccio) has a particularly fascinating take on it at emptywheel that I want to draw …
Feb 16 2016
A Short History of Neoliberal Economic Policy Failure
Contrasted with the success of Keynesian economics and New Deal/Great Society policy. Thomas Piketty on the rise of Bernie Sanders: the US enters a new political era Thomas Piketty, The Guardian Tuesday 16 February 2016 11.13 EST From the 1930s until the 1970s, the US were at the forefront of an ambitious set of policies …
Feb 15 2016
“Kissinger is a friend”
Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels. Though we have often seen the world and some of our challenges quite differently, and advocated different responses …
Feb 14 2016
My Las Vegas Convention- A Happy Story
(originally in orange Sat Jun 17, 2006 at 07:01 PM PDT) Can you handle the truth? How about a good story? If you are a regular reader you may know that I was State Co-ordinator of my meatspace club. You may not know I was engaged. Yes I know, hard to believe anyone can stand …
Feb 14 2016
The Little Match Girl
By Hans Christian Andersen (A Fairy Tale) Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening– the last evening of the year. In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet. When she left home she had slippers on, it …
Feb 13 2016
Number 9, #9, No. Nein.: Republican Debate Open Thread
Scalia was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Scalia was as dead …
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