It's been freakin' cold around here. Well, cool anyway. By spring, I'm sure I'll consider the low 60s to be just like summer. Now here's the news...
Texas schools are quietly abandoning abstinence-only sex ed. Mostly because it's been such a failure. Not good news for Rick Perry, who's currently playing the super-Christian for the fact-free base.
Matt Yglesias points out that the math in Social Security privatization schemes doesn't work.
Krugman weighs in on the "cheers for dead patients" moment at the CNN GOP debate.
The US Supreme Court halts the Texas execution of Duane Buck, who was put on death row after "jurors were told he posed a greater danger to public safety because he is black." Rick Perry refused to intervene, because it's hard to set records for executions when you're all worried about justice and racism.
David Brooks wrote something stupid again. John Boehner was a liar again. Liz Cheney made a ridiculous claim again.
Congressional approvals hit an all time low in a NYT/CBS poll. A Bloomberg poll finds that people blame Republicans.
Finally, a measure of how credible people think Republicans are; the more GOP candidates talk about how much they disbelieve in anthropogenic global warming, the more the public believes in it.
Showing posts with label Social Security debate (United States). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Security debate (United States). Show all posts
Friday, September 16, 2011
Stories to Watch: 9/16/11
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Stories to Watch: 9/15/11
For a piece for The New Republic, journalist Walter Shapiro sat down and watched "50 hours" of "a full sampling of the Fox News lineup." He reports back a lot of inanity. "Looking back, it seems like a nine-day hallucination of strident voices, blonde hair, and more pitchmen hawking gold coins than at any time since the heyday of King Midas," Shapiro writes. A courageous act of journalism, indeed.
How do you pull in a lot of readers? Do what James Carville did and suggest that the time has come for the White House to FREAK THE FUCK OUT!!. If you can get past the histrionic headline and his call for the Obama administration to "fire a lot of people," the rest of it is pretty solid. Your mileage may very. He may have gone fullblown talking head, but the guy Clinton hired is still in there someplace.
President Obama will not include Social Security reform in his recommendations to the deficit reduction "super-committee."
BREAKING: Rightwing bloggers are completely insane. They've resorted to lipreading to convince themselves that Michele Obama said something awful at the 9/11 commemoration. Haven't got something to freak out over at a particular moment? Then just make shit up.
House Republicans finally discover a welfare program they like.
Anti-Muslim bigotry at the FBI.
John Boehner is a hypocritical clown.
Finally, Ron Paul's grasp of geopolitical realities isn't extremely tight.
How do you pull in a lot of readers? Do what James Carville did and suggest that the time has come for the White House to FREAK THE FUCK OUT!!. If you can get past the histrionic headline and his call for the Obama administration to "fire a lot of people," the rest of it is pretty solid. Your mileage may very. He may have gone fullblown talking head, but the guy Clinton hired is still in there someplace.
President Obama will not include Social Security reform in his recommendations to the deficit reduction "super-committee."
BREAKING: Rightwing bloggers are completely insane. They've resorted to lipreading to convince themselves that Michele Obama said something awful at the 9/11 commemoration. Haven't got something to freak out over at a particular moment? Then just make shit up.
House Republicans finally discover a welfare program they like.
Anti-Muslim bigotry at the FBI.
John Boehner is a hypocritical clown.
Finally, Ron Paul's grasp of geopolitical realities isn't extremely tight.
Related articles
- James Carville Has A Word Of Advice For Obama: 'Panic!' (mediaite.com)
- Who is Winning the Fox News Primary? (politicalwire.com)
- Watching Fox News For 50 Hours Straight (huffingtonpost.com)
- Perry Fails the Debate Test So Far (politicalwire.com)
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