In the Debate Last week the Republicans were asked some questions. Some I found slightly interesting, but one question just made me scared! The Question was that if their was a budget deal that for every 10 dollars in cuts their will only be 1 dollar i…
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Death By Trolley: Cenk Uygur Vs. Fareed Zakaria on Progressive Dissatisfaction With Obama
In this clip from The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur responds to CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria. Zakaria criticize’s American liberals for their strong dissatisfaction with President Obama, saying among other things that they need to grow up, that they need to learn to appreciate compromise, and the like. Uygur responds by going on the offense and staying […]
Death By Trolley: Why Obama and Democrats are Less Trustworthy than Bush and Republicans
Why a progressive blogger trusts Republicans more than Democrats and Obama to follow through on their commitments. 
Death By Trolley: Is Obama a Fauxgressive – a Fake Progressive, or Simply a Non-Progressive?
Is Barack Obama a fake progressive (fauxgressive), or simply a non-progressive? 
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Delaware River Basin Commission and Army Corps Sued Over Fracking Regulations
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Last week, environmental watchdog groups including the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), Riverkeeper, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and th…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Japanizing the World Economy
This guest post is from PEF members Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia, both of whom are full professors of economics at the University of Ottawa. The “Japanization” of the World Economy Over the last twenty years, the Japanese economy underwent a long period of economic stagnation that some economists have characterized as a protracted “balance-sheet […]
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The Attacks on Climate Science Education Are Picking Up Steam
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A few months back, those who care about accurate climate science and energy education in high school classes registered a minor victory. Under fire from outlets …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: In The Dog Days of Summer, CFACT Still Barks The Same Tune
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Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT Campus, the student wing of Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, wrapped up its student climate and ener…
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Digging Deeper Into New Brunswick’s Fracking Controversy
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In ever greater numbers, New Brunswickers are speaking out against hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the exploitation of the densely packed unconventional gas sitting be…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Here Comes the Atlantic Hurricane Season
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This has been a year of dramatic disasters and weather extremes. From tornadoes to droughts to heat waves, the U.S. has been battered.
Unfortunately, the hurricane season that&rs…
bastard.logic: Facts vs. Narrative, Utoya Edition
by matttbastard Norwegian journalist Magnus Nome was in the good ol’ US of A when self-styled counterjihadist crusader Anders Breivik decided to escalate his murderous fantasies about Eurabian conquest from Outer Wingnuttia into the real world. Thankfully, CNN, Fox News … Continue reading →
The Progressive Economics Forum: S&P Pantsed by US Treasury
I have been reluctant to condemn the credit-rating agencies for sovereign downgrades because it seems like shooting the messenger. As the bond markets have noticed, a few European countries have serious fiscal problems. Blaming the raters for also noticing did not seem like an effective response. However, I think that Standard and Poor’s decision – […]
Continue readingbastard.logic: Fun With Infographics (STILL Worst Preznit EVA)
by matttbastard Michael Tomasky: The Boston Globe ran a chart last Sunday that I’d buy billboard space to reproduce in every decent-size city in America, if I were running the Democratic National Committee. The premise of it was very simple: It … Continue reading →
bastard.logic: Another Stop Along the Road to Damascus
by matttbastard The pullquote from one of David Frum’s latest eviscerations of contemporary USian conservative folly, a meditative riff on Susan Sontag’s infamous “Were our enemies right?” speech, was making the rounds yesterday (eventually getting linked by the subject of Frum’s … Continue reading →
LeDaro: United States of America: Has it lost its collective brain
There is a story on MSNBC that the US is considering to grab “nukes” from Pakistan because there is a danger they may fall into the wrong hands. I suppose after Osama Bin Laden, US is emboldened. No doubt it was a flawless operation, but to ‘grab…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The Bias Trap: Are We All Just A Bunch of Motivated Reasoners?
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There were a ton of great responses to my last post about conservative white men and climate change denial. Perhaps most notably, some savvy respondents called into question whe…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: What’s Up With Conservative White Men and Climate Change Denial?
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They come at you at public events, wanting to argue. They light up the switchboards whenever there’s a radio show about climate change. They commandeer your blog comments …
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Clemens vs. Clemens
Jason Clemens, who hangs his hat at several right-wing think-tanks (the Fraser, Pacific Research and Macdonald-Laurier Institutes), lauds Canadian fiscal conservatism in today’s Wall Street Journal: Canada’s government, for example, has grown smaller over the last 15 years. Total government spending as a share of the economy peaked at a little over 53% in 1993. […]
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Debt Ceiling Debate is Moot: USG Owes More Dollars than in Existence
Image by Images_of_Money The current debate in Washington as to whether or not and under what conditions to raise the debt-ceiling has for the past week dominated global news coverage and the public mind. Absent from the debate and mainstream coverage is a discussion of the debt limit in the
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: EIA Head Objected to Politically Dictated “Garbage” Subsidy Report, But Delivers it Anyway
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Stephen Lacey from ClimateProgress on Tuesday detailed a letter sent to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) by three GOP House members asking the EIA to use loaded assumptio…
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