Saturday, July 9, 2011

Red Light, Green Cash

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An interesting story from Bloomberg this weekend:  red light cameras aren't generating the revenues cash-strapped local governments were...

More On The Most Spiked Story This Year

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There's been very little said about the biggest domestic terror story of the year: the white supremacist movement in the Pacific Northwe...

No Dealing On The Debt Ceiling, Part 31

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Ahh, the Debt Ceiling battle.  You know something's up when Orange Julius has gone right back to his position from early this year , whi...

Up In Smoke - Willy Style

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From my beloved TMZ : The judge in Wilie's Texas marijuana case rejected a plea deal struck between Willie and the D.A. in which Willi...

The Kroog Versus The Current Narrative

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Via Steve Benen , Paul Krugman has a point: After the release of the June job numbers, there were plenty of worthwhile charts and graphs m...

Like Father, Like Son

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Rupert Murdoch's son James is apparently the guy that's going to be left holding the bag for the News Corp. phone hacking scandal. ...

You Just Have To Tighten A Couple Nuts, Apparently

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The husband of GOP presidential "contender" and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, psychologist Dr. Marcus Bachmann, has already sti...

StupidiNews, Weekend Edition!

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Former First Lady Betty Ford, breast cancer survivor, feminist icon and warrior against substance abuse, has passed at the age of 93 . Civi...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Last Call

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David Leonhardt explores the steep cost of austerity hysteria to our economy . In all kinds of ways — consumer demand, the federal deficit...

Ban-imal Cruelty

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Post of the day goes to Steve M . for this: Michele Bachmann is the first presidential candidate to sign the pledge currently being circ...

No Dealing On The Debt Ceiling, Part 30

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Over at Power Line, John Hindraker is incensed that the Republicans are even considering a deal. Republicans should have nothing to do w...

Rotten Apple

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Turns out there's a big security flaw in Apple's iOS (and has been for a long time now) that hackers could use to gain control of a...

Show Me Progress

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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri marijuana advocates want to ask voters next year to legalize the drug and regulate its medical use. A group ...

That's Some Fine Police Work There, Lou

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ST. LOUIS  • With police on high alert from a spike of car break-ins — and Mayor Francis Slay demanding gates and guards at public parking ...

Jobapalooza

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June unemployment numbers are in, and they are not good . Nonfarm payrolls rose only 18,000, the weakest reading since September, the Lab...