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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Those tax and spend conservatives
Chart from here. From John at Americablog: Total debt is $14.3 trillion. $1 trillion of debt comes from before Reagan (NYT doesn’t make clear who created that debt). $13.3 trillion accumulated from Reagan to Obama. 71% of the $13.3 trillion … Continue reading
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Mind the gap
The numbers speak for themselves. From 1984 to 2009, Pew reports, the closest ratio of white wealth to black or Hispanic wealth was 7:1. That happened in each category in 1995. From the Pew Research Center: The median wealth of … Continue reading
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Paddling for survival
A National Geographic piece via BoingBoing: A female polar bear has broken the polar bear long-distance swimming record—covering 426 miles of water over nine straight days. If polar bears were influenced in their actions by things like the Guinness Book, … Continue reading
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Cutting through the mustard, part 2
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Notice the sea of orange. The Dems are backing away from touching the orange. Shame on them.
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This is what voter suppression looks like
From Raw Story, includes video. A Wisconsin woman recorded the process of getting her son an ID to vote. She discovered that the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) could refuse to issue the constitutionally-mandated ID card if the voter’s bank … Continue reading
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Source of the real crazy
From Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency Out of 543 failed, foiled or successfully carried out terror plots in Europe in 2009 and 2010, only five — less than one percent — were related to Islamic extremism.
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Cutting through the mustard
From the NYT Sunday Review The second graph shows that under Mr. Bush, tax cuts and war spending were the biggest policy drivers of the swing from projected surpluses to deficits from 2002 to 2009. Budget estimates that didn’t foresee … Continue reading
More icon stupidity
From “If Charlie Parker was….” Ronald Reagan, apparently unaware that the Victory sign held up, palm in, means something completely different, sends a rather unintended message to the audience at the Citizens for Reagan rally in 1968. The great communicator.
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Nuclear Summer
From Letter from Here: “The incredible heat we’re having right now is having some pretty dramatic meteorological effects. When I saw this cloud rising above the Madison skyline, I had to pull into the Edgewood College parking lot to get … Continue reading
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