
Debt talks reveal the Republicans’ apocalyptic war on government – The Washington Post federal tax revenue as a percentage of the gross domestic product is at its lowest level since 1950. The correlation between low federal taxes and job…
Debt talks reveal the Republicans’ apocalyptic war on government – The Washington Post federal tax revenue as a percentage of the gross domestic product is at its lowest level since 1950. The correlation between low federal taxes and job…
Murdoch and the British phone-hacking scandal: Why the U.S. should prosecute News Corp. and strip its TV licenses if it’s guilty. – By Eliot Spitzer – Slate Magazine First, it is hard to believe that the misbehavior in Murdoch’s media…
Little Green Footballs – Actual Headline vs. Fox News Headline The actual Reuters headline: The Fox News headline:
Last night, watched WALL STREET 2 on HBO. To put it all in an uncharitably Hollywood manner, it was has-been Oliver Stone’s story about has-been Michael Douglas/Gordon Gekko’s return to the world-stage at the moment of has-been America’s too-typical financial…
Flavorwire » A Few of the Best Music Videos You’ve Probably Never Seen There’s a bit of this trippy animated weirdness going round at the moment — see also Flying Lotus’s “Zodiac Shit” and Air’s “Sing Sang Sung” — but…
Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch’s Watergate? – Newsweek For a long time his vehicle was the New York Post—not profitable, but useful for increasing his eminence and working a wholesale change not only in American journalism but in the…
What Obama Wants – NYTimes.com People have asked me why the president’s economic advisers aren’t telling him not to believe in the confidence fairy — that is, not to believe the assertion, popular on the right but overwhelmingly refuted…