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Salon has an interesting interview with Arthur Goldwag, author of the new book The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right. He argues that the racist and conspiracist approach of today’s right-wing nut jobs is “largely the same as it was 50 years ago.”
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Continue Reading →Spain’s economy is sliding back into recession. Nobody is surprised.
PARIS — To no one’s surprise, the Spanish economy is sliding toward recession, official data showed Monday, contracting in the fourth quarter after a stagnant third quarter.
Gross domestic product shrank by 0.3 percent in the October-December period from the July-September quarter, when the [...]
Continue Reading →I mean, really, does it get more ironic than this? Ever???
The Santorums of Italy were “dyed-in-the-wool Reds” with strong links to the Socialist and Communist movements, the magazine said, particularly during the rise of Mussolini and his Black Shirts.
“Rick’s grandfather, Pietro, ran the local post office and had strong liberal convictions,” said [...]
Continue Reading →Colbert Report – Mitt the Ripper…. Serial Killer, if corporations are people
Continue Reading →Clever video with Rick Horowitz, Writing Consultant/Commentator on how recalling Scott Walker isn’t about sour grapes, but is rather lemon law protection for voters.
Continue Reading →The Washington County Republican Party recently came out (in force?), to show support for Scott Walker.
Photo from Boots and Sabers where they said “The Walker supporters, who ranged in age from children to senior citizens“, although I am assuming they are counting the grandkids pictures in the [...]
Continue Reading →I get it. I understand. You want a smaller public sector. There’s no real logic to it, you just want it. Like a child wants the latest toy or video game. You can’t articulate the “why” other than some deep-seated desire that it’s what you want. As the old saying goes, be careful what you [...]
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I had an epiphany at the Americans For Prosperity Town Hall meeting here in Waukesha on Saturday morning. I realized that marketing, not facts, wins elections. In our collaborative post, Phil Scarr and I provided fancy charts and graphs to dispute many of the AFP’s factually inaccurate statements, and we made some jokes [...]
Continue Reading →It’s no wonder they need to set new ethical guidelines for academic economists who want to publish. They’ve been captured by business interests.
Continue Reading →Never one to miss an opportunity to reference Soviet style communism, adjunct Law Prof and intellectual homunculus Rick Esenberg snidely asks in a recent blog post, ” Where can you find a decent gulag nowdays? “
Well, look no farther than your own backyard, Professor Rick! One in 31 Americans are now either in prison [...]
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