Friday is a good day for punditry. Paul Krugman: The economic news, in case you haven’t noticed, keeps getting worse. Bad as it is, however, I don’t expect another Great Depression. In fact, we probably won’t see the unemployment rate match its post-Depression peak of 10.7 percent, reached in 1982 (although I wish I was sure about that). But don't mistake that for good news.
Read more »Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats
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Naomi Klein, of Shock Doctrine fame, writes in The Nation: In Praise of a Rocky Transition The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington's handling of the Wall Street bail-out is not merely incompetent: it is borderline criminal. ...
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As I mentioned a few days ago, one of the biggest background stories of the coming months is the rewiring of Washington, speficially the rewiring of the para-government (which includes the lobby shops, the think tanks and much more) for...
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Tubular
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Perhaps like others of you out there, I was checking this afternoon at the Alaska election return website to see if there was any other movement on the Stevens-Begich numbers. After I saw that wasn't happening I checked in to...
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Open Thread and Diary Rescue
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Tonight's Rescue Rangers are jlms qkw, HansScholl, ItsJessMe, Elise, and dadanation. The rescued diaries
Read more »Obama May OK Torture Investigation
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Should George Bush and others in his administration be prosecuted for various actions is answered with a resounding yes!
Read more »Don't Get It
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Secretaries of State don't usually last more than a single presidential term. And sometimes they don't make it that long. So, for the life of me, I do not understand why Hillary Clinton would want to give up what is...
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A Republican Facing Reality...Almost
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After the humiliating, across-the-board rout of the GOP last week, the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami has to be a depressing affair, and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty's realistic assessment of the state of their Party probably didn't lighten the mood.
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Some Senate Dem staffers considering making health care reform a part of the pending economic stimulus package....
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