[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Sally Ann bans Harry Potter and Twilight toys | Canada | News | Toronto Sun
- CALGARY — The Salvation Army says it refuses to distribute Harry Potter and Twilight toys collected for needy children because they're incompatible with the charity's Christian beliefs.
- Why Assange and WikiLeaks have won this round
- [Crooks and Liars - Ian Welsh]
…If corporations and governments can destroy someone's access to the modern economy… without even pretending due process of the law … then we simply do not live in a free society of law, let alone a society of justice.
… the Wikileaks files reveal that the British fixed their inquiry into the war, and that the US pressured the Spanish government to stop a war crimes court case against ex-members of the Bush administration. Assange and Wikileaks are subject to extreme judicial and extrajudicial sanctions, but people who engaged in aggressive war based on lies, tortured people and are responsible for deaths well into the six figures, walk free…
Because of the massive overreaction to Wikileaks, the case against him is completely tainted. He might be guilty as sin, but justice can no longer be seen to be done, because it is far too evident that too many powerful people, corporations and governments want him taken out.
- Why liberals are so ungrateful
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
My main worries about the tax cut deal are mostly around the long term political effects… Krugman raises some important questions about the likely economic effects that are rather alarming as well. He says, "Obama may be buying off the hostage-takers by … giving them more hostages." So the laying of new time bombs that are ticking away in this bill form the greatest basis for my objections.
But I think Ezra [Klein] really nails what gripes Democrats most about it and it's very well illustrated by this graph:…
[Do click through to Krugman's and Klein's articles. -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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