October 2005 Page

October 31, 2005
  • Look at Alito's Economic Record - To repeat my mantra, if it is Alito, let's have progressives look over his economic record as an Appeals Court... MORE...

    October 29, 2005
  • Alan Keyes Explains Bush's Stealth Nominee Strategy - Shockingly, I think Keyes basically has it right in this essay:. He blames the stealth strategy on the need to... MORE...
  • Bush's Iran Failure - The promise of the Iraq War was to initimidate not only the terrorists, but also cow the "Axis of Evil"... MORE...

    October 28, 2005
  • Indictments - The good news is that because the indictments are based on obstruction of justice, the focus will be on the... MORE...

    October 27, 2005
  • Miers Withdraws as Rightwing Revolts - Well, I read Harriet Miers 1993 speech and was about ready to change my mind and support her, not so... MORE...
  • This is the Real Scandal - This American Prospect article and other investigations by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica have focused on the role of Italian... MORE...

    October 26, 2005
  • Myth of Murder Due to Name Disclosure - Both Atrios and Americablog point to a statement by Gary Hart that disclosure of the identity of CIA Agent Robert... MORE...

    October 23, 2005
  • Criminalization of Leaking Secrets Will Bite Progressives - This New York Times article details the way government secrets have always leaked to the press and makes an argument... MORE...
  • W.E.B. DuBois: Remembering McCarthyism - I'm nearing the end of David Levering Lewis's masterful two-part biography of W.E.B. DuBois, but after a life of achievement... MORE...
  • Miers and Cronyism in Eminent Domain Payouts - What kills you is when a story reinforces an existing story. And if Harriet Miers is being condemned as a... MORE...

    October 22, 2005
  • Rice Gives Good Message on Global Democracy - Too much of US global propaganda fails because it comes from a source with so little credibility, given our own... MORE...

    October 21, 2005
  • Yes, Let's Investigate Foreign Assassinations - If we want to have a U.N. session on Syria's involvement in foreign assassinations, can we also get one on... MORE...
  • Housing: "We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us" - A nice piece in the NY Times by Hal Varian on one of my favorite themes, the way zoning drives... MORE...
  • Restore the Estate Tax- Help Harriet Miers! - Henry Blodget at Slate has probably drawn a more insightful portrait of Harriet Miers than almost anyone else by carefully... MORE...
  • Microsoft Antitrust Lawsuit Still Working - While the Justice Department significantly scaled back pressure on Microsoft after Bush's selection in 2000, the overall Microsoft defeat in... MORE...

    October 20, 2005
  • Estate Tax Protects the Cheating Kin - The GOP has made a prime goal making sure large estates are passed onto the children and grandchildren of the... MORE...
  • GOP Misses the Hammer - But the rest of us celebrate. Internal war is taking its toll on the GOP and Delay may be just... MORE...

    October 18, 2005
  • Substance over Tactics - David Sirota has an important article up at In These Times arguing that the militant anti-Bush movement is plagued by... MORE...
  • Attack on Medicaid - God forbid the Bush administration allow more government spending for poor people. The Bush prescription drug plan for Medicare is... MORE...

    October 14, 2005
  • Why Courts Should Not Defend Darwin - TPMCafe is engaged in "evolution week", and I fully appreciate the need to publicly challenge the scientific idiocy of "intelligent... MORE...
  • Haley Barbour in Trouble w/Fundamentalists - Post-Katrina, it looked like Governor Haley Barbour had done well politically from his response to the tragedy in Mississippi, at... MORE...

    October 12, 2005
  • Rightwing Pissed off Over Miers - What's clear is that much of the rightwing is pissed off over Miers nomination not because they don't believe she... MORE...
  • Business Coming Out Strong for Miers - That some Democrats -- including some in the blogosphere -- have gone soft on Miers reflects a fundamental betrayal of... MORE...

    October 11, 2005
  • The Quiet Suicide of Urban Liberalism - This NY Times article describes the "quiet revolution" in New York City over the last few years as 3,600 blocks... MORE...

    October 10, 2005
  • Hoover and the Roots of GOP Racist Politics - Occasionally, some people will paint Herbert Hoover as a good-hearted humanitarian who ended up a bit over his head when... MORE...
  • Racist William Buckley - Atrios reminds us, in celebration of National Review's Fiftieth birthday, that William Buckley and his magazine endorsed violation of the... MORE...

    October 09, 2005
  • Circular Logic of Miers as "Top Lawyer" - One of the main qualifications cited for Harriet Miers is her repeatedly being cited as one of the "top" and... MORE...

    October 08, 2005
  • Regulating the Net to Stop Blackouts - So I asked why blacking out the Internet wasn't a crime and a number of lawmakers are asking the same... MORE...

    October 06, 2005
  • Federalism Revolution Over - Based on John Roberts' questions during the oral arguments over assisted suicide, Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog has declared "Note to... MORE...
  • An Encouraging Story on Miers - Okay, here's a case of Miers doing something straightup progressive: In what appear to be some of her only public... MORE...
  • GOP: Cut Food Stamps to Fund Agribusiness Welfare - From AP: The bill by [Agriculture Committee Chairman Saxby] Chambliss would cut food programs for the poor by $574 million... MORE...
  • Kelo and Political Corruption - Kevin Drum, seconded by Todd Zywicki at Volohk think this story outlines exactly the kind of corruption that the eminent... MORE...
  • Do You Need an Ivy League Degree? - The latest rhetorical ploy from the rightwing in defense of Harriet Miers is to accuse her critics of being snobs... MORE...

    October 05, 2005
  • Why Isn't Blacking Out the Internet a Crime? - Some of you may have noticed that a some websites are not loading from your computer. That's because a couple... MORE...
  • Miers Worse than Roberts - Everything I've read so far indicates to me that Miers will be worse than Roberts if confirmed. Partly, it's because... MORE...

    October 04, 2005
  • And, yes, Miers is Anti-Choice - You want the most obvious evidence that Miers is hardline anti-choice? Look at her list of political contributions. No, ignore... MORE...
  • Forget the Constitution-- Roberts, Miers & Tyson - Too often, talk about the Supreme Court focuses only on abortion, gay rights and other social issues that make up... MORE...

    October 03, 2005
  • Miers As Enron's Ken Lay - One of Miers only qualifications for her nomination is that she was the head of a major corporate law firm,... MORE...
  • Michael Brown on the Supreme Court - Okay, Harriet Miers has slightly better qualifications for the job of Supreme Court Justice then Michael Brown did for FEMA,... MORE...

    October 02, 2005
  • Most. Unpopular. Politicians. Ever. - Ohio: Taft Approval Rating at 15%: Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll in Princeton, N.J., said he's... MORE...
  • Who Should Rule the World? - Well, Nelson Mandela topped the online poll at the BBC, with Bill Clinton coming in second. Here's the 11-person "team"... MORE...
  • Iraq Summer Camp is Over - So what Afghanistan was to terrorist training in the 1980s and 1990s, Iraq has been for the next generation of... MORE...

    October 01, 2005
  • Potty Training Sexual Harassers - Mark A. R. Kleiman is complaining that the state of California is requiring all supervisors on state payroll to attend... MORE...
  • Against the Posse Comitatus Act - In the wake of the Katrina debacle, Bush has called for revising the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act to allow the... MORE...
  • More than Words- Bennett was Wrong - Armando at Daily Kos is outraged that Brad Delong and Matt Yglesias are offering a qualified defense that Bill Bennett... MORE...
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    February 21, 2007
  • Amnesia on the Death of Reconstruction - I am going to pick on Brad Delong precisely because he is a brilliant and well-educated academic-- and his list... MORE...

    February 18, 2007
  • So What if Mitt Wants A Person of Faith as President? - There's a bit of a furor that Mitt Romney declared:We need to have a person of fiath lead the country.So... MORE...

    February 16, 2007
  • States Taking Action Against Iraq Escalation - So the New York Times is covering the story that resolutions denouncing Bush's Iraq Escalation have been introduced in over... MORE...

    January 01, 2007
  • Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in... MORE...

    December 22, 2006
  • Dems' Stupid Positioning on Minimum Wage - As a followup to discussing why politicians need to appeal to a broad consensus, it's worth emphasizing that it's easier... MORE...

    December 21, 2006
  • Obama and the Need for Large Progressive Majorities - I've been as disappointed as many other progressive bloggers with Obama's bad votes on tort reform and seeming trimming of... MORE...

    December 13, 2006
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    November 27, 2006
  • Ecuador Goes Left - Another country moves left-- whatever you want to say, Bush has been very good for reviving the global left, especially... MORE...
  • Building a Progressive Majority in the Statehouses - The Progressive States Network today rolled out its legislative agenda for the 2007 session and is looking to promote it... MORE...

    November 13, 2006
  • The Future Belongs to US - While the actual results seem razer-thin in this election, I'll be bold and argue that they are part of a... MORE...

    November 11, 2006
  • Pro-Labor "Conservative Democrats" - One more nail in the narrative that the victory of a few moderate Democrats means this election is really a... MORE...

    November 10, 2006
  • The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus... MORE...

    November 08, 2006
  • A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no... MORE...

    November 01, 2006
  • Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power.... MORE...

    October 19, 2006
  • Immigrant Poor Send More Foreign Aid than US Govt - The United States government spends less money on foreign aid as a percentage of its budget than almost any other... MORE...

    October 17, 2006
  • - Valuing Families:  State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look... MORE...

    October 09, 2006
  • Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be... MORE...

    October 03, 2006
  • Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6... MORE...

    September 27, 2006
  • Civil War on the Right- Dick Armey trashes Dobson - The economic business- right and the religious right are moving towards total civil war. This piece by former GOP Majority... MORE...

    September 24, 2006
  • Allen the Racist - Three college teammates confirm that George Allen regularly used the N- word: Allen said he came to Virginia because he... MORE...