What Dennis Hastert REALLY Meant
We all know by now what Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert had to say about rebuilding New Orleans: We ought to take a second look at it. But you know we build Los Angeles and San Francisco on top of...
View ArticleCensus: Median income up with Dems, down with Repubs.
The Big Picture has a good, if depressing post about how 2004 Census data demonstrates a declining middle class and all that implies. If you look at the census data directly there's an interesting...
View ArticleHouse Republicans want to stop the poor from voting
This story speaks for itself. From a story on a vote on Fannie Mae legislation via the New York Times: The House bill sets aside 3.5 percent to 5 percent of the company's profits over the next five...
View ArticleTN - GOP Threatens TV Stations with Lawsuit Over Dem. Ad
The GOP once again proves it's the party of whiners. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has threatened to sue TV stations in Tennessee that continue to run a new ad from the Democratic...
View ArticleBush, Rice, and Imperial Germany: Armenian Realpolitik
The Bush Administration is hardly the first ally of Turkey that has chosen to publicly remain silent on the reality of the Armenian genocide. As the state secretary of the German Imperial Budget...
View ArticleNPR spouts right wing talking points on Napolitano
Dina Temple-Raston, NPR's counterterrorism correspondent, and Steve Inskeep got their talking points down, stating that Janet Napolitano claimed "the system worked" because the attack failed and the...
View ArticleGuilty! TN GOP violates campaign finance laws
Top story in today's Tennessean covers the sloppy practices of our oh-so-special Tennessee Republicans:WASHINGTON — The Tennessee Republican Party failed to report millions of dollars in campaign...
View ArticleThe Surprising Science of Motivation - Animated!
A big hat tip to Rabbett Run, where I first saw this. Daniel Pink explains the counterintuitive research that shows bonuses not only don't work, they cause people to do do worse (as if anyone watching...
View ArticleHow science won the election, and why Repubs can't copy Obama's ground game
Obama's GOTV and voter identification was about a whole lot more than hustle. It was about research, the scientific method, and scholarly expertise. You know, "pointy-headed intellectuals"? According...
View ArticleWhat Dennis Hastert REALLY Meant
We all know by now what Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert had to say about rebuilding New Orleans:We ought to take a second look at it. But you know we build Los Angeles and San Francisco on top of...
View ArticleCensus: Median income up with Dems, down with Repubs.
The Big Picture has a good, if depressing post about how 2004 Census data demonstrates a declining middle class and all that implies. If you look at the census data directly there's an interesting...
View ArticleHouse Republicans want to stop the poor from voting
This story speaks for itself. From a story on a vote on Fannie Mae legislation via the New York Times:The House bill sets aside 3.5 percent to 5 percent of the company's profits over the next five...
View ArticleTN - GOP Threatens TV Stations with Lawsuit Over Dem. Ad
The GOP once again proves it's the party of whiners. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has threatened to sue TV stations in Tennessee that continue to run a new ad from the Democratic...
View ArticleBush, Rice, and Imperial Germany: Armenian Realpolitik
The Bush Administration is hardly the first ally of Turkey that has chosen to publicly remain silent on the reality of the Armenian genocide. As the state secretary of the German Imperial Budget...
View ArticleNPR spouts right wing talking points on Napolitano
Dina Temple-Raston, NPR's counterterrorism correspondent, and Steve Inskeep got their talking points down, stating that Janet Napolitano claimed "the system worked" because the attack failed and the...
View ArticleGuilty! TN GOP violates campaign finance laws
Top story in today's Tennessean covers the sloppy practices of our oh-so-special Tennessee Republicans:WASHINGTON — The Tennessee Republican Party failed to report millions of dollars in campaign...
View ArticleThe Surprising Science of Motivation - Animated!
A big hat tip to Rabbett Run, where I first saw this. Daniel Pink explains the counterintuitive research that shows bonuses not only don't work, they cause people to do do worse (as if anyone watching...
View ArticleHow science won the election, and why Repubs can't copy Obama's ground game
Obama's GOTV and voter identification was about a whole lot more than hustle. It was about research, the scientific method, and scholarly expertise. You know, "pointy-headed intellectuals"? According...
View ArticleWhat Dennis Hastert REALLY Meant
We all know by now what Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert had to say about rebuilding New Orleans:We ought to take a second look at it. But you know we build Los Angeles and San Francisco on top of...
View ArticleCensus: Median income up with Dems, down with Repubs.
The Big Picture has a good, if depressing post about how 2004 Census data demonstrates a declining middle class and all that implies. If you look at the census data directly there's an interesting...
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