Comment Of The Day
m2c4
2:53 PM
Comment of the day from Scott Lemieux over at the American Prospect in a discussion of the indefensible Electoral College : "There is...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Politics
Politics
Simply The Best? I'm Not So Sure
m2c4
2:28 PM
Trump continually promised he would be able to bring the "best" people to work for him. But so far his cabinet is shaping up to be...
Politics
Politics
An Existential Threat To Healthcare
m2c4
7:43 AM
I have tried to avoid speculating about what Trump will or will not try to do during his term as President, because it is almost impossible ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Politics
Politics
Wal-Mart Convicted Of Wage Theft, Again
m2c4
4:01 AM
Here is another item that people might have missed over the Thanksgiving holiday and this time it is actually good news for a few hundred wo...
Politics
Politics
Trump Makes More Distressing Appointments As Media Obsesses About Tweets
m2c4
4:01 AM
In an earlier post, I mentioned that Trump's outrageous lies and tweets are often used to deflect media attention away from other, more ...
Politics
Politics
Texas Reports Its First Locally Transmitted Zika Case
m2c4
4:01 AM
Texas just reported its first case of locally transmitted Zika virus . Cameron County, which includes the border city of Brownsville, report...
Politics
Politics
Trump's Conflicts Of Interest Will Be Continual But, As President, He Will Violate One Contract
m2c4
4:01 AM
The Trump presidency will be a constant conflict of interest, especially with his myriad of overseas "investments", more properly ...
Monday, November 28, 2016
Politics
Politics
Fillon To Face Le Pen In Upcoming French Presidential Election
m2c4
3:33 PM
As expected, Francois Fillon won the runoff election in France to become the candidate of the center-right in the presidential elections ne...
Politics
Politics
Forget Trump's Provocations, Focus On What He Actually Does
m2c4
2:04 PM
Yesterday's news was dominated by Kellyanne Conway's statement that the appointment of Mitt Romney as Secretary of State would be a ...
Politics
Politics
It Will Be A Small Scandal That Will Be Trump's Undoing
m2c4
11:21 AM
The daily outrages from Donald Trump make it so easy for so many things to slide under the radar. And with the holiday week last week, I ju...
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Politics
Politics
More Corporate Crime, This Time In The Time Share Industry
m2c4
1:26 PM
The NY Times has an article today outlining the four year fight of a whistleblower against Wyndham Vacation Ownership , finally resulting in...
Addenda
Addenda
College Football Roundup - Is The Big 10 Vastly Overrated Again
m2c4
12:11 PM
The big game of the week was, of course, the traditional Ohio State-Michigan showdown which actually meant something this year as the teams ...
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Politics
Politics
Would Focus On Working Class Issues Really Have Made A Difference
m2c4
8:30 AM
The NY Times has an article today about Trump voters in Florida who count on Obamacare for their health insurance and now hope that it won...
The Deck View
The Deck View
Natural Weekends - Progression Of Fall In Four Days - Part 1
m2c4
7:55 AM
For the next two Natural Weekends, we will feature photos for the Deck View as fall progresses and the colors change. This is for al...
Friday, November 25, 2016
Politics
Politics
Jill Stein Plays Us For Fools Again
m2c4
3:31 PM
Jill Stein managed to pull enough votes from Hillary Clinton and arguably allow Donald Trump to win Michigan and Wisconsin. The final totals...
Politics
Politics
Connecticut's Incentives To Keep Jobs Makes Sense But Won't Really Create Any New Ones
m2c4
2:30 PM
Connecticut has suffered financially in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Fairfield County, the driver of much of Connecticut's rev...
Politics
Politics
End Of Austerity And The Adoption Of Liberal Economic Policies
m2c4
9:46 AM
Britain's Conservative government of Theresa May has apparently adopted the economic platform of the Democratic party in the United Stat...
Politics
Politics
The Potentially Chilling Effect Of The Professor Watchlist
m2c4
8:28 AM
In a nice follow-up to the white supremacists' victory celebration hosted by alt-right leader Richard Spencer a few days ago, the super...
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Politics
Politics
A Thought On Thanksgiving
m2c4
6:19 AM
Happy Thanksgiving! No matter how grim things may look these days, we all have something to be thankful for, some far more so than others. T...
The Deck View
The Deck View
Happy Thanksgiving!!
m2c4
6:06 AM
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Politics
Politics
Koch Brothers Even Win In Madoff's Ponzi Scheme
m2c4
1:18 PM
How many honest people were bankrupted in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. I knew a few of them and they lost everything they had. But not ...
Politics
Politics
Court Strikes Down Overtime Rule
m2c4
12:45 PM
On December 1, the Labor Department's new overtime rules were supposed to kick in. The new rules moved the salary limit on paying overt...
Politics
Politics
A Not So Happy Thanksgiving...
m2c4
11:15 AM
As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday and weekend, I'm expecting to see some seriously bad appointments being made by the Trump campa...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Politics
Politics
A New JFK Assassination Theory
m2c4
3:07 PM
In my younger days, I always ate up those books on conspiracy theories and I guess I still enjoy them now but perhaps with a healthier dos o...
Politics
Politics
Another Day In Trump World
m2c4
2:35 PM
Here is today's probably incomplete wrapup of Donald Trump's continued destruction of our democracy. The Washington Post reports th...
Politics
Politics
Race, Democracy, And The Power Of Rural States
m2c4
1:30 PM
Yesterday, the NY Times ran an article entitled, "As American as Apple Pie? The Rural Vote’s Disproportionate Slice of Power ". Th...
Politics
Politics
Identity Politics And The Working Class
m2c4
11:43 AM
Maybe I'm just naïve or just missing it entirely, but I just don't get this enormous push for Democrats to choose between identity p...
Monday, November 21, 2016
Politics
Politics
France Will Fall To Right Wing Populists And Germany May Not Be Far Behind
m2c4
12:42 PM
Way back in May, even before the vote on Brexit, I posted that this seemed like a year where revolutionary change driven by an almost global...
Politics
Politics
Democrats Must Learn How To Be A True Opposition Party - And Quick
m2c4
9:25 AM
It really has not been an auspicious start for the Democrats since the election. Somehow, they must learn to become a real opposition party,...
