Employee Free Choice vs. Wall Street Greed
April 14, 2009 8:27 am

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Parody Ad
April 15, 2009 10:28 pm

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Threats of Secession and Other Recent Republican Rhetoric
April 16, 2009 5:47 pm

Lincoln Mitchell

....This latest GOP seems, at first, more surreal than offensive. The notion that Obama is a socialist because he wants a minor tax increase for a tiny fraction of Americans and would prefer to spend our treasure on helping people rather than on conducting wars of dubious origin or intention is more than a little strange, but if a small minority of people want to assert it, that is well within their rights.

Floating the idea of secession over this is a very different story. The history of secession in the US is not a pretty one. Those on the far right can't have it both ways, calling for revolution and secession on the one hand, while protesting a report raising concerns about right wing extremist violence on the other......

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First Real Deflation in 50 Years
April 16, 2009 10:36 pm

and they're still talking about INflation??

By Robert Folsom,EWI

"Consumer prices dipped unexpectedly in March, leaving inflation over the past year falling at the fastest clip in more than a half-century."

• Production at the nation's factories, mines and utilities dropped a seasonally adjusted 1.5 percent in March, the fifth straight monthly decline. That matched February's drop and was worse than the 1 percent dip analysts expected.
• The total industrial capacity utilization rate fell to 69.3 percent from 70.3 percent, the lowest on record dating to 1967...
• More layoffs were announced this week. UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, said it expects a first-quarter loss of about $1.75 billion and will cut 8,700 jobs worldwide by the end of next year. ArcelorMittal SA, the world's largest steel maker, said it will idle a plant in Indiana and lay off about 400 workers. Credit card company Discover Financial Services said it plans to cut 500 jobs next month, or 4 percent of its work force.

That's the year-over-year Consumer Price Index -- and there ain't no spinning a chart like this. It's what deflation looks like.

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Paranoids On Parade
April 16, 2009 11:13 pm

The one lady struggling in earnest to make sense of how spending ended the Great Depression is just too priceless. You can almost see the gears in her head grinding and sputtering as she attempted to grasp the historical reality.

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The Colbert Coalition’s Anti-Gay Marriage Ad
April 17, 2009 8:14 pm

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Best Friends, an Elephant and a Dog
April 18, 2009 7:14 pm

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