Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released proposed new rules to help doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers better coordinate care for Medicare patients through Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). ACOs are designed to create and support a team of health care providers who treat individual patients by working together across care settings.
Improving Care for People with Medicare | The White House
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Time for a Little Education - Truthdig
I’m a retired teacher and I’m pissed. No matter what form of media I look at, I’m confronted with constant references to the various budget crises. The federal government has a deficit. States have budget problems. Cities face massive shortfalls. And school districts are on the edge of bankruptcy. The crises are real, but the search for culprits has degenerated into a hypocritical attempt to score political points.
Time for a Little Education - Truthdig
Time for a Little Education - Truthdig
Tribes With Flags - NYTimes.com
Is the battle for Libya the clash of a brutal dictator against a democratic opposition, or is it fundamentally a tribal civil war?”
This is the question because there are two kinds of states in the Middle East: “real countries” with long histories in their territory and strong national identities (Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Iran); and those that might be called “tribes with flags,” or more artificial states with boundaries drawn in sharp straight lines by pens of colonial powers that have trapped inside their borders myriad tribes and sects who not only never volunteered to live together but have never fully melded into a unified family of citizens. They are Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The tribes and sects that make up these more artificial states have long been held together by the iron fist of colonial powers, kings or military dictators. They have no real “citizens” in the modern sense. Democratic rotations in power are impossible because each tribe lives by the motto “rule or die” — either my tribe or sect is in power or we’re dead
Tribes With Flags - NYTimes.com
This is the question because there are two kinds of states in the Middle East: “real countries” with long histories in their territory and strong national identities (Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Iran); and those that might be called “tribes with flags,” or more artificial states with boundaries drawn in sharp straight lines by pens of colonial powers that have trapped inside their borders myriad tribes and sects who not only never volunteered to live together but have never fully melded into a unified family of citizens. They are Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The tribes and sects that make up these more artificial states have long been held together by the iron fist of colonial powers, kings or military dictators. They have no real “citizens” in the modern sense. Democratic rotations in power are impossible because each tribe lives by the motto “rule or die” — either my tribe or sect is in power or we’re dead
Tribes With Flags - NYTimes.com
G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether - NYTimes.com
The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States.
Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.
That may be hard to fathom for the millions of American business owners and households now preparing their own returns, but low taxes are nothing new for G.E. The company has been cutting the percentage of its American profits paid to the Internal Revenue Service for years, resulting in a far lower rate than at most multinational companies
G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether - NYTimes.com
Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.
That may be hard to fathom for the millions of American business owners and households now preparing their own returns, but low taxes are nothing new for G.E. The company has been cutting the percentage of its American profits paid to the Internal Revenue Service for years, resulting in a far lower rate than at most multinational companies
G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether - NYTimes.com
Five myths about why the South seceded - The Washington Post
One hundred fifty years after the Civil War began, we’re still fighting it — or at least fighting over its history. I’ve polled thousands of high school history teachers and spoken about the war to audiences across the country, and there is little agreement even about why the South seceded. Was it over slavery? States’ rights? Tariffs and taxes
Five myths about why the South seceded - The Washington Post
Five myths about why the South seceded - The Washington Post
Monday, March 21, 2011
Today's Social Security Propaganda Rebuttal Post | OurFuture.org
Marketing works. If you put a lot of money into repeating a marketing message over and over and over, eventually people's brains absorb the message. Conservatives have put a lot of money and effort into convincing people that there is something wrong with Social Security, and that effort is paying off.
Today's Social Security Propaganda Rebuttal Post | OurFuture.org
Today's Social Security Propaganda Rebuttal Post | OurFuture.org
Kill Public-Employee Unions; Erase the Middle Class
But there is something more sophisticated at work here than merely the efforts of talk-show hosts, demagogues and right-wing politicians to stir up or even just reflect, an angry, agitated and hostile populace. That is, there is a plan at work here - let's call it, "the Plan" - and that plan is designed to accomplish the following goals:
Kill Public-Employee Unions; Erase the Middle Class
Kill Public-Employee Unions; Erase the Middle Class
Friday, March 18, 2011
Crushing the Democrats' Base
Put simply, Republicans are conducting a radical attack on the Democratic Party, aimed at the roots of Democratic power and sustenance. The battle is occurring in Washington and around the country, and even if the right doesn't succeed completely, the fight will almost certainly leave Democrats weakened and defensive.
Look at the targets conservatives have taken aim at in the last couple of years: access to the ballot box, unions, organizations representing the poor, organizations protecting reproductive rights, and more. The assault is not just on ideas or policies (though there's plenty of that, too) but on the institutions that undergird the Democratic Party and the progressive movement.
Crushing the Democrats' Base
Look at the targets conservatives have taken aim at in the last couple of years: access to the ballot box, unions, organizations representing the poor, organizations protecting reproductive rights, and more. The assault is not just on ideas or policies (though there's plenty of that, too) but on the institutions that undergird the Democratic Party and the progressive movement.
Crushing the Democrats' Base
Debt, Austerity and How to Fight Back
Editor's note: On Tuesday, April 5, hundreds of schools and community groups will participate in a teach-in on debt, austerity and how people are fighting back. From 2–3:30 pm (EST) a national teach-in will be streamed live from New York City, followed by local teach-ins and strategy discussions around the country. Read the call to action by Frances Fox Piven and Cornel West, check out the organizing guide and join the movement by attending or hosting a teach-in near you. Please see http://www.fightbackteachin.org for more information.
Wall Street Banks, American corporations and their political allies have declared a one-sided war on the American people. This war is being waged at our schools and colleges, the workplace and in our communities.
Today, Americans are working harder and earning less while corporate profits soar. As homeowners, consumers and students we see our wealth being stripped away by banks. Our government plunges into debt waging trillion-dollar wars. Meanwhile, our infrastructure erodes and climate change proceeds unchecked. Schools, daycare centers, senior citizen facilities, clinics, parks and firehouses are starved for funds so that corporations and the rich can get billions in tax breaks!
Debt, Austerity and How to Fight Back
Wall Street Banks, American corporations and their political allies have declared a one-sided war on the American people. This war is being waged at our schools and colleges, the workplace and in our communities.
Today, Americans are working harder and earning less while corporate profits soar. As homeowners, consumers and students we see our wealth being stripped away by banks. Our government plunges into debt waging trillion-dollar wars. Meanwhile, our infrastructure erodes and climate change proceeds unchecked. Schools, daycare centers, senior citizen facilities, clinics, parks and firehouses are starved for funds so that corporations and the rich can get billions in tax breaks!
Debt, Austerity and How to Fight Back
Saturday, March 12, 2011
The $110 Billion Question - NYTimes.com
When one looks across the Arab world today at the stunning spontaneous democracy uprisings, it is impossible to not ask: What are we doing spending $110 billion this year supporting corrupt and unpopular regimes in Afghanistan and Pakistan that are almost identical to the governments we’re applauding the Arab people for overthrowing?
The $110 Billion Question - NYTimes.com
The $110 Billion Question - NYTimes.com
Governors are Proposing Further Deep Cuts in Services, Likely Harming Their Economies — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Forty-two states have released their initial budget proposals for fiscal year 2012 (which begins July 1 in most states), and, for the fourth year in a row, these budgets propose deep cuts in education, health care, and other important public services — in many cases, deeper than previous cuts. [1] These cuts will delay the nation’s economic recovery and undermine efforts to create jobs
Governors are Proposing Further Deep Cuts in Services, Likely Harming Their Economies — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Governors are Proposing Further Deep Cuts in Services, Likely Harming Their Economies — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Monday, March 7, 2011
Reality Check: Who's Afraid of Reforming Wall Street? - TIME
Joe Klein --a way to dramatize the complicated issues at the heart of regulatory reform. The President should appoint Warren. The Senate should be forced to vote on her, so the public will know who really wants to clean up Wall Street and who doesn't.
Reality Check: Who's Afraid of Reforming Wall Street? - TIME
Reality Check: Who's Afraid of Reforming Wall Street? - TIME
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The United States Isn't a Company and It Isn't a Family -- It's a Country.
Let's begin with a multiple choice test. The United States of America is:
a) a for-profit corporation;
b) a family, like the typical American family in a 1960's sitcom;
c) a nation -- with a national economy and nation-sized problems.
If you answered "c," there's good news and bad news. The good news is that you answered the question correctly. The bad news is that you probably have no future as a pundit, where recycling bad metaphors is an essential job skill. (On second thought, that's probably good news too. You undoubtedly have better things to do with your time.)
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The United States Isn't a Company and It Isn't a Family -- It's a Country.
a) a for-profit corporation;
b) a family, like the typical American family in a 1960's sitcom;
c) a nation -- with a national economy and nation-sized problems.
If you answered "c," there's good news and bad news. The good news is that you answered the question correctly. The bad news is that you probably have no future as a pundit, where recycling bad metaphors is an essential job skill. (On second thought, that's probably good news too. You undoubtedly have better things to do with your time.)
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The United States Isn't a Company and It Isn't a Family -- It's a Country.
War, debt and democracy - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Moreover, the US is paying for these wars with debt. The government funded World War II partly with war bonds, but it also instituted the first general income tax in American history, increasing tax revenue from $8.7bn in 1941 to $45bn in 1945. This would have been impossible for an unpopular war. To finance today’s wars, by contrast, the US government has not only avoided raising taxes, but has actually cut them on an enormous scale, with the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 now extended at least through 2012.
War, debt and democracy - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
War, debt and democracy - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
George F. Will - Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and the spotlight-chasing candidates of 2012
If pessimism is not creeping on little cat's feet into Republicans' thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism. This is because it indicates they do not understand that sensible Americans, who pay scant attention to presidential politics at this point in the electoral cycle, must nevertheless be detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the party.
George F. Will - Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and the spotlight-chasing candidates of 2012
George F. Will - Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and the spotlight-chasing candidates of 2012
ThinkProgress » REPORT: Five Things Unions Have Done For All Americans
Over the past few weeks, right-wing legislators have unleashed a torrent of radical legislation upon the American electorate designed to gut collective bargaining rights and attack the middle class. As these conservatives have launched their assault, a Main Street Movement consisting of ordinary Americans fed up with living in such an unequal country has fought back.
Conservatives have sought to malign this movement by claiming that it is simply defending the parochial interests of labor unions, who they claim are imposing huge costs on taxpayers with little benefit. Yet the truth is that America’s public and private unions have been one of the major forces in building a robust and vibrant middle class and have fought over the past century to improve the lives of all Americans in a variety of ways. ThinkProgress has assembled just five of the many things that Americans can thank the nation’s unions for giving us all:
ThinkProgress » REPORT: Five Things Unions Have Done For All Americans
Conservatives have sought to malign this movement by claiming that it is simply defending the parochial interests of labor unions, who they claim are imposing huge costs on taxpayers with little benefit. Yet the truth is that America’s public and private unions have been one of the major forces in building a robust and vibrant middle class and have fought over the past century to improve the lives of all Americans in a variety of ways. ThinkProgress has assembled just five of the many things that Americans can thank the nation’s unions for giving us all:
ThinkProgress » REPORT: Five Things Unions Have Done For All Americans
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
gulfnews : Yemeni describes bloody siege on Al Qaida
A doctor who treated wounded Al Qaida fighters in Afghanistan's Tora Bora has said Osama Bin Laden was at the mountain as coalition troops attacked.
gulfnews : Yemeni describes bloody siege on Al Qaida
gulfnews : Yemeni describes bloody siege on Al Qaida
Federal Eye - Government overlap costs taxpayers billions, GAO reports
"The president has made it a priority to reform government and make it more effective and efficient for the American people, which is why his budget reflects a commitment to streamlining government and saving taxpayer dollars," White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage said in response to the report.
Upon taking office, Obama quickly appointed a chief performance officer, a new position meant to tackle government organizational issues.
Federal Eye - Government overlap costs taxpayers billions, GAO reports
Upon taking office, Obama quickly appointed a chief performance officer, a new position meant to tackle government organizational issues.
Federal Eye - Government overlap costs taxpayers billions, GAO reports
The Liberal Media Strikes Again
If I hear one more person talk about the "liberal media" in America, I will probably vomit on them. It was a stupid and ridiculous thing to say last week - take a long look at which mega-corporations own which news networks, and you won't find a "liberal" entity anywhere on the list - but the events in Wisconsin have further underscored the absurdity of the statement.
The Liberal Media Strikes Again
The Liberal Media Strikes Again
Monday, February 28, 2011
PolitiFact | Whitehouse says richest 400 taxpayers are taxed at a lower rate than a $29,000-a-year worker
According to calculations by Whitehouse’s office -- which match our own -- when you include Social Security and Medicare taxes, the effective tax rate for the wealthiest 400 Americans would have been 16.72 percent in 2007; the tax rate for a worker earning $29,000 a year would have been 16.79 percent.
PolitiFact Rhode Island | Whitehouse says richest 400 taxpayers are taxed at a lower rate than a $29,000-a-year worker
PolitiFact Rhode Island | Whitehouse says richest 400 taxpayers are taxed at a lower rate than a $29,000-a-year worker
Friday, February 25, 2011
What You Need to Know About the Assault on NPR and PBS -- In These Times
Congressional attacks on public media seem to come as regularly as NPR fundraising drives. Every year, as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) pleas for federal funding, some members of Congress denounce public media altogether, while others quietly vote to shave off another sliver of subsidies, rather than eliminate all funding. In the end, the CPB limps away still intact, but wounded.
What You Need to Know About the Assault on NPR and PBS -- In These Times
What You Need to Know About the Assault on NPR and PBS -- In These Times
tax.com: Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who 'Contributes' to Public Workers' Pensions?
When it comes to improving public understanding of tax policy, nothing has been more troubling than the deeply flawed coverage of the Wisconsin state employees' fight over collective bargaining.
Economic nonsense is being reported as fact in most of the news reports on the Wisconsin dispute, the product of a breakdown of skepticism among journalists multiplied by their lack of understanding of basic economic principles.
tax.com: Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who 'Contributes' to Public Workers' Pensions?
Economic nonsense is being reported as fact in most of the news reports on the Wisconsin dispute, the product of a breakdown of skepticism among journalists multiplied by their lack of understanding of basic economic principles.
tax.com: Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who 'Contributes' to Public Workers' Pensions?
Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American
What is shrinking is the reportorial component of our culture in which people go out and find things and verify things," he said. Truth has little chance to make itself known in the new narrow and shallow public square.
Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American
Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American
Rolling Stone: Another Runaway General as Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators | Common Dreams
The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators
Rolling Stone: Another Runaway General as Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators | Common Dreams
Rolling Stone: Another Runaway General as Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators | Common Dreams
Back home, GOP freshmen find fiscal responsibility can be tricky business
As they return to their districts after the budget debate, Guinta and many of his fellow Republicans are discovering that fiscal responsibility can be a tricky business. Many federal programs reside in a vast gray zone, somewhere between worthy and wasteful. And while pledging to rise above local interests can establish a candidate as a principled outsider, for a member of Congress, it's often a quick way to guarantee a short career.
Back home, GOP freshmen find fiscal responsibility can be tricky business
Back home, GOP freshmen find fiscal responsibility can be tricky business
No unions: Government by the rich, for the rich - CNN.com
Let's be clear what is going on. Only three of the top 10 spenders in the most recent elections were unions. Among the others were organizations representing business interests, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and individual corporations themselves. Both corporations and unions were unleashed by the Citizens United decision.
If unions can be broken in the public sector, this will further tilt the political playing field on behalf of corporate interests and their Republican allies. This will also silence one of the few remaining vehicles that advocate on behalf of ordinary people in this country.
No unions: Government by the rich, for the rich - CNN.com
If unions can be broken in the public sector, this will further tilt the political playing field on behalf of corporate interests and their Republican allies. This will also silence one of the few remaining vehicles that advocate on behalf of ordinary people in this country.
No unions: Government by the rich, for the rich - CNN.com
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Simply the Worst -What Rummy didn’t know could fill his book. NYTimes.com
On biological weapons: “We cannot confirm the identity of any Iraqi facilities that produce, test, fill, or store biological weapons,” the report said, adding: “We believe Iraq has 7 mobile BW agent production plants but cannot locate them ... our knowledge of how and where they are produced is probably up to 90% incomplete.”
On chemical weapons: “We cannot confirm the identity of any Iraqi sites that produce final chemical agent.” And on ballistic missile programs they had “little missile-specific data.”
Somehow that was twisted into “a slam-dunk.” You go to war with the army you have, but the facts you want.
Simply the Worst - NYTimes.com
On chemical weapons: “We cannot confirm the identity of any Iraqi sites that produce final chemical agent.” And on ballistic missile programs they had “little missile-specific data.”
Somehow that was twisted into “a slam-dunk.” You go to war with the army you have, but the facts you want.
Simply the Worst - NYTimes.com
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Droughts, Floods and Food - NYTimes.com
We’re in the midst of a global food crisis — the second in three years. World food prices hit a record in January, driven by huge increases in the prices of wheat, corn, sugar and oils. These soaring prices have had only a modest effect on U.S. inflation, which is still low by historical standards, but they’re having a brutal impact on the world’s poor, who spend much if not most of their income on basic foodstuffs.
Droughts, Floods and Food - NYTimes.com
Droughts, Floods and Food - NYTimes.com
Taxes (As A Percentage Of Economy) Drop To Lowest Level In 60 Years
And for the third straight year, American families and businesses will pay less in federal taxes than they did under former President George W. Bush, thanks to a weak economy and a growing number of tax breaks for the wealthy and poor alike.
Taxes (As A Percentage Of Economy) Drop To Lowest Level In 60 Years
Taxes (As A Percentage Of Economy) Drop To Lowest Level In 60 Years
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Why Glenn Beck is So Dangerous: His Poison is in the System | AlterNet
Glenn Beck's TV show has dropped to #5 among the top-rated cable news programs, and his viewership is 40% lower than it was a year ago. But I'm not sure it matters -- his viewership is still much greater than, say, anything in MSNBC's prime-time lineup. And as Richmond Ramsey, a writer for David Frum's Web site, noted a couple of days ago, he's making his elderly viewers monomaniacal and crazy (hat tip: Jonathan Chait):
Why Glenn Beck is So Dangerous: His Poison is in the System | AlterNet
Why Glenn Beck is So Dangerous: His Poison is in the System | AlterNet
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Liberals don't want to 'silence' conservatives -- they'd just like to have an honest democratic debate | Crooks and Liars
Right-wingers seem to have a problem understanding how this whole free-speech thing works. They seem to believe, for instance, that it's perfectly acceptable for them to say the most outrageous things imaginable as part of their rights to free speech -- but if someone stands up and exercises their free-speech rights by criticizing what they said, then by God, they're trying to take their rights away!
Liberals don't want to 'silence' conservatives -- they'd just like to have an honest democratic debate | Crooks and Liars
Liberals don't want to 'silence' conservatives -- they'd just like to have an honest democratic debate | Crooks and Liars
Health Care Law Benefits in 2011 and Years to Come, Efforts to Repeal Reform
here's your at-a-glance guide to the health care law provisions in effect now, as well as some still to come, and what they may mean for you.
Health Care Law Benefits in 2011 and Years to Come, Efforts to Repeal Reform
Health Care Law Benefits in 2011 and Years to Come, Efforts to Repeal Reform
Five Things To Understand About The Egyptian Riots | The New Republic
It takes some hubris to write about events unfolding as fast as the protests in Egypt, especially when it’s clear that nobody saw this coming. Mubarak is preparing to address the nation, and it's unclear what will follow. Here are five points that American observers should keep in mind whatever comes next, while consuming the blog posts, Tweets, and TV coverage of their choice.
Five Things To Understand About The Egyptian Riots | The New Republic
Five Things To Understand About The Egyptian Riots | The New Republic
Obama's Reagan
In May 2010, Barack Obama invited a small group of presidential historians to the White House for a working supper in the Family Dining Room. It was the second time he'd had the group in since taking office, and as he sat down across the table from his wife Michelle, the President pressed his guests for lessons from his predecessors. But as the conversation progressed, it became clear to several in the room that Obama seemed less interested in talking about Lincoln's team of rivals or Kennedy's Camelot than the accomplishments of an amiable conservative named Ronald Reagan, who had sparked a revolution three decades earlier when he arrived in the Oval Office. Obama and Reagan share a number of gifts but virtually no priorities. And yet Obama was clearly impressed by the way Reagan had transformed Americans' attitude about government. The 44th President regarded the 40th, said one participant, as a vital "point of reference." Douglas Brinkley, who edited Reagan's diaries and attended the May dinner, left with a clear impression that Obama had found a role model. "There are policies, and there is persona, and a lot can be told by persona," he says. "Obama is approaching the job in a Reaganesque fashion."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2044579,00.html#ixzz1CSQ9pO5KSusanThur's Blog
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2044579,00.html#ixzz1CSQ9pO5KSusanThur's Blog
Friday, January 28, 2011
Social Security- Raising False Alarms
The demagogues would have the public believe that Social Security is unsustainable, that it is some kind of giant contributor to the federal budget deficits. Nothing could be further from the truth. As the Economic Policy Institute has explained, Social Security “is emphatically not the cause of the federal government’s long-term deficits, since it is prohibited from borrowing and must pay all benefits out of dedicated tax revenues and savings in its trust funds.”
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
Media Noise: The Year of Living Predictably
By Joe Klein Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010
Excerpt: And yet, if you watched the news — especially the epileptic seizure that passes for news on cable television (and in certain precincts of the blogosphere) — you'd think that we were facing Armageddon, Sodom, Gomorrah and the last days of Pompeii all at once. This was especially true of Fox News, which emerged in 2010 as a full partner and funder of not just the Republican Party but also of that party's loony-tunes conspiratorial extreme. On the other side of the barricades, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann had more than a few moments of solipsistic self-righteousness (and his contributions to political candidates were no less questionable than Rupert Murdoch's, if not nearly as large). Even modest, moderate CNN continued its descent into breathless irrelevance, overwhelmed by a thundering horde of hoary political consultants, overanalyzing every quotidian hiccup and microscopic movement in the polls.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2039920,00.html#ixzz1AZE3d8jj
Excerpt: And yet, if you watched the news — especially the epileptic seizure that passes for news on cable television (and in certain precincts of the blogosphere) — you'd think that we were facing Armageddon, Sodom, Gomorrah and the last days of Pompeii all at once. This was especially true of Fox News, which emerged in 2010 as a full partner and funder of not just the Republican Party but also of that party's loony-tunes conspiratorial extreme. On the other side of the barricades, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann had more than a few moments of solipsistic self-righteousness (and his contributions to political candidates were no less questionable than Rupert Murdoch's, if not nearly as large). Even modest, moderate CNN continued its descent into breathless irrelevance, overwhelmed by a thundering horde of hoary political consultants, overanalyzing every quotidian hiccup and microscopic movement in the polls.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2039920,00.html#ixzz1AZE3d8jj
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8jw-ifqwkM
John Lennon---I love his songs--he saw to the words that are needed in the world--yesterday and today. Long live John Lennon's words.
John Lennon---I love his songs--he saw to the words that are needed in the world--yesterday and today. Long live John Lennon's words.
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