Commentary By Ron Beasley
New Yorker DougJ at Balloon Juice suggested it first:
What happened in NY-23 is that a bunch of confederate pukes came in and told a perfectly nice, socially moderate, Republican Albany hack (and I mean that affectionately) to go get bent.
Megan McArdle seems to agree although as usual [...]
By BJ Bjornson
Admittedly, I don’t think this was too hard to figure out.
Chief executives in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their "ideal salaries" in 2008, according to an analysis by a Purdue University researcher.
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Fair pay for an average S&P [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
Jay had a good analysis of yesterday's election below. Perhaps the only really significant result was in NY-23 where a Democrat won for the first time in a 140 years. The Palin/Limbaugh/Beck lunatics managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But the lunatics' [...]
By John Ballard
So you don't have enough on your plate?
Here's an off-the-wall take on some serious issues. Fasten your seatbelt.
Is human population expanding? Or dwindling? Should we neuter ourselves at the SPCA? Or multiply like the Octomom? The answer is... both?! Yes. Depending on your GPS coordinates, human numbers [...]
Here's the Washington Post's lead paragraph on yesterday's election results:
Off-year elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape may have changed in the year since President Obama won the White House, Tuesday's Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey [...]
By John Ballard
Hamid Dabashi is the author of "Iran: A People Interrupted." He is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. His Web site is [www.hamiddabashi.com].
I heard a news reporter this afternoon refer to Iran's street demonstrations as "the biggest civil'" [...]
By BJ Bjornson
It isn’t very often that my TV viewing works into any political posts, but thanks to the Chicago Tribune, there is a fair bit of sounding off in the right side of the blogosphere today regarding the TV series reboot of “V” being a none-too-subtle jab at [...]
By John Ballard
Pay for what works. What a concept!
Oddly, no one seems to have thought about it before.
...Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare (the health insurance system for people connected to the military), the federal employees’ health benefit system, and private insurers have spent tens of millions of dollars on non-medical services, [...]
By Steve Hynd
The news that an Afghan policeman has shot British soldiers who were mentoring his unit, killing five and wounding six more, has sent shockwaves through the UK's press, public and political parties today.
British and Afghan officials said the men were killed at a police checkpoint when the policeman' [...]
By Dave Anderson:
Pennsylvania politicians are scared to raise broad based taxes even when everyone acknowledges that the state needs more long term and recurring revenue. Gambling and other sin taxes provides for politically "cheap" money as those activities are voluntary activities that can be taxed at a very high rate [...]
By John Ballard
Got a tweet from Crof about swine flu in Gaza.
Swine flu has not reached Gaza yet but with 1.5 million residents squeezed into 360 square kilometers it would appear to be a small miracle.By Dave Anderson:
This is a follow-up on the Altmire wants to lose post from yesterday. His basic argument is that last night would be an indicator that Democrats should further trim their policy sails so as to attract more Republican votes because the Republican base is more energized than [...]
By Dave Anderson:
There were six races that I was paying attention to last night. I thought Democrats or liberals would win the Maine gay marriage referendum, win on civil unions in Washington State and hold onto CA-10 by a decent margin. I expected losses in NY-23, and a blow-out in [...]
Hootsbuddy, Steve Hynd, Dave Anderson, Ron Beasley, Kenneth Anderson, BJ Bjornson, Russ Wellen, Eric Martin, Jay McDonough, Gregg Carlstrom, Derrick Crowe
