The Foxconn Con Just Keeps On Getting Better!

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published a rather interesting article in their Business section this morning about another apparently unadvertised feature in the Foxconn deal negotiated by Governor Scott Walker on behalf of the State of Wisconsin. As you may remember, the state may be on the hook for $4 billion…

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US police annually kill over twice as many citizens as FBI reports

An investigation by the UK based Guardian has revealed that previous FBI figures for how many US citizens are killed annually by police fell way short of the actual mark. While the figures are disturbing: an average of 928 people killed annually over a recent eight year period compared to…

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John McCain did not read the books(or watch the movies)

John Mccain took to the Senate Floor yesterday to weigh in on the debt limit ceiling talks, he chose to read a (Rupert Murdoch shrill) Wall Street Journal op-ed. He laid into the tea party and showed how the career politicians(and the Murdoch media empire) in Washington DC have such…

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More fun with Paul Ryan:

I have been sitting on this for a while because it did not get much press at the time. Krugman’s rebuke of Ryan, has been written about extensively. Ryan (R- Wall St), for some reason cant seem to get enough press(presidential ambitions maybe?). He also is not very good at…

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