Month: December 2009

The Anti-Corporatist Movement

I want to talk about a losing ideological battle that is being waged on the left in this country by a group of people that I will call (non-pejoratively) “anti-corporatists.” They are hypercritical of the TARP...

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Figure This Out

Centrists rule our world. Landrieu said she would not support the final legislation if negotiators tinkered with the Senate proposal for taxing high-cost insurance plans. “I can only support a bill if the Cadillac plans are...

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Yeah, That Plan Won’t Work

I like Cenk Uygur a lot but he is desperately confused. He’s kind of on the right track in the beginning of his analysis but he makes a common mistake. He correctly identifies Obama’s move to the center when he got...

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Happy Christmas Blog

I don’t do Christmas cards or even the e-Christmas cards available from some websites.  I don’t do Christmas circular letters or emails containing annual summaries of family events to enlighten family friends...

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Beyond Band-Aids for Hunger

Cross-post (op-ed) from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet By Danielle Nierenberg and Brian Halweil It’s been twenty-five years since a well-meaning music producer threw together a bunch of megastars to...

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