[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- The New Source of California Power: Meg Whitman’s Bank Account
- [Calitics - Brian Leubitz]
You know the days of Hiram Johnson, when he hoped to create a system that wasn't controlled by the railroads, or whatever interest was dominating at the time? Well, we're past that whole industry domination now, and have moved on directly to power of the person. Not of the people, just the person. In our current case, that person is Meg Whitman and her eBay warchest.
…She went on to say that she opposes collective bargaining for state employees. Period. End of sentence.
- Who You Gonna Believe?
- [Paul Krugman]
I went through my mail today, and got the usual batch of letters declaring that I’m wrong about everything, and that we should do the opposite of anything I say. Hey, it’s a free country.
But I found myself wondering, as I often do, about the determination with which people believe pundits who please them ideologically, no matter how wrong they have repeatedly been — wrong in ways that, if you believed them, cost you money.
Suppose you had spent the last five years actually believing what you read from the usual suspects — the WSJ opinion pages, National Review, right-wing economists, etc.. Here’s what would have happened…
- Who’re you calling a liberal?
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
- The Billionaire’s 2010 Death Club
- [TaxProf Blog - Paul Caron]
The recent death of television mogel John Kluge brings the number of billionaire deaths in 2010 to five, providing additional resources [for rich folks] to wage a constitutional fight against any retroactive imposition of the estate tax…
[I can't help but wonder if any of these are murders, a la the Menendez brothers. -L]
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- Google creates censorship map
- [BBC News]
Google is keeping a check on censorship levels around the globe with a map showing which countries asked the search engine for user information.
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- Roundup: Catholic Bishops Coming For Your Birth Control
- [RHRealityCheck.org - Robin Marty]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is once more trying to flex its muscles. Not happy to have simply pushed to remove all abortion coverage from health care reform, they now have a new target: making sure birth control isn't covered, either.
…In a very public and morbid reminder of the fragile state of maternal mortality, Times Square's National Debt Clock has a new counterpart. Introducing the Maternal Death Clock, which will run for three days, marking the number of women who die every day due to childbirth and complications. [linkety link]
[Catholic leadership is in effect saying that YOU--whatever your sex--should not be able to exercise effective control over what may well be one of the most significant factors in your life. -L]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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