Howard Dean continues to be my only politcal hero
Man, I just can't say enough about this guy. I found myself reading the Yale Daily News and came acroos this headline "Dean '71 critcizes news media." It is nothing that a lot of us around here don't...
View ArticleFowler just took a step up in my estimation for DNC chair
Let me first say that we need a reform person at the DNC. The only reform candidates seem to be Dean, Rosenberg and Fowler. I am a Dean guy and I want him to run for president again in 08 which means...
View ArticleGet Paid a living wage to blog full time abut Henry George?
Maybe. -I sit on the board of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. -Grant giving non-profit with a multi-million dollar endowment promoting the social, economic, and tax policies of Henry George. A...
View ArticleGet Paid a living wage to blog full time abut Henry George?
Maybe. -I sit on the board of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. -Grant giving non-profit with a multi-million dollar endowment promoting the social, economic, and tax policies of Henry George. A...
View ArticleGet Paid a living wage to blog full time abut Henry George?
Maybe. -I sit on the board of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. -Grant giving non-profit with a multi-million dollar endowment promoting the social, economic, and tax policies of Henry George. A...
View ArticleC4 lines up Guantánamo-style torture show
I don't know what to think about this... a reality program in England looking at the effects and reliablity of torture (or torture lite as they call it) um... good that the some media somewhere wants...
View ArticleUsing abortion as a wedge to win - Minimum Wage
The Senate lineup assured that the minimum wage bill was going to be shot down. But we missed an opportunity. While Ted Kennedy talking about poverty being unacceptable in a rich nation is accurate and...
View ArticleWhy are the Dem candidates for NYC mayor so dull? Should I run?
I have respect for Anthony Weiner and Virginia Fields and Gifford Miller and Fernando Ferrer (though his Amadou Diallo gaffe was bad) for what they have done in service to the city. None are seemingly...
View ArticleThoughts on Passover, Dayenu and the West Bank
I am a New York City Jew. I have a great love and respect for my religious and cultural tradition but I don't feel mired in it or in anyway trapped by its mores or traditional worldview. I am not an...
View ArticleLast nail in the "Is Kurtz really a hack?" coffin
Just in case you were wondering if Howard Kurtz really is a hack or not despite the fact that on balance today's column really isn't so bad. Howie actually looks at the non-existent coverage of the...
View ArticleMake Kansas blue by invading it
Kansas is freaking a lot of us out lately. Evolution. Trying to redefine science. There is even the great book wondering out loud "What's The Matter With Kansas?" Kansas produces uninformed wingnuts at...
View ArticleLindy Davies, longshot for President in 2008
Looks like we have another long shot dark horse for the Democratic nomination in 2008. a one Lindy Davies, Director of The Henry George School in Chicago. He proposes his candidacy and platform here....
View ArticlePetrocollapse Conference: Oct. 5, 2005 NYC
Peak oil and energy issues have been discussed very impressively on this site - Devilstower and Jerome come immediately to mind as leaders in this subject. I have learned a lot from various posters in...
View ArticleThe architecture of Robert's confirmation
From US News and World Report When John G. Roberts is approved as chief justice of the United States, as expected, he can thank President Bush 's "Friends & Allies" program, which went to work on...
View ArticlePhilly Kossacks - Fix your property taxes the progressive way this Saturday
While I am from New York City and live there I have a special place for Philadelphia and I keep up to date with its politics and the goings-on in related fields. Philadelphia is (and has been) very...
View ArticleEnd of Suburbia - Has anyone seen this film?
Has any one here seen the newish documentary called "The End of Suburbia"? The website is http://www.endofsuburbia.com/ With all the excitemnt, and rightfully so, about the Wal Mart documentary I...
View ArticleDo you really want progressive taxation? - Henry George has got one for you
All this talk about better and more progressive taxation in diaries as of late makes me want to bring up a not often talked about mode of taxation. But the Land Value Tax - a very practical and...
View ArticleDear New Orleans, Here is how to recover from destruction. Love, San Francsico
Jerome A Paris has great diary currently found on the rec list pointing out how much oil companies are struggling still with the damage done to infrastructure by Katrina. I understand the struggle but...
View ArticleWhat Fox says about Fake News vs. Real News
Julia Fox that is... Julia R. Fox is an assistant professor of telecommunications at University of Indiana who has done a great service with two grad students by spending valuable time watching the...
View ArticleLaura Bush expresses profound economic idea about poverty - clearly doesnt...
According to this article Laura Bush is really interested in Burma/Myanmar. Who knew? She has been a consistent critic of the military junta and a supporter of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu...
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