The Obama Report Card: The Good, the Bad and the Incomplete
Why are so many people in the soi-disant left who are not career progressives, meaning not part of the Vichy Left, so cautious about calling out Obama’s failures?
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Job Guarantee Versus Basic Income Guarantee
A lively and well-informed debate on the merits of a job guarantee versus a basic income guarantee.
Read more...5 of the Worst Examples of Biased and Distorted Media Coverage of Education in 2015
It’s not hard to see that the effort to loot, um, privatize education has an attack on teachers as a big part of its strategy…which undermines support for education.
Read more...Work, Play, and Social Artifacts Under the Tree
Model railroading as work and play.
Read more...“Summer” Rerun: “Why America Will Need Some Elements of a Welfare State”
In 2007, the Financial Times’ Martin Wolf Wolf concluded that America needed some form of a welfare state. His argument is as valid now as then. Yet it is hard to imagine that anyone would make it now, particularly in light of the effort of soi-disant liberals to pretend that Obamacare insurance policies bear any resemblance to “universal health care”.
Read more...Capitalism – Not China – Is to Blame for the Current Global Economic Decline
Capitalism’s “recovery” now proceeds like another speeding train headed toward contradiction and catastrophe.
Read more...The Logic of the Police State in America
How police forces are openly taking the position that they are not accountable to democratic processes and how that attitude is translating into policies and actions.
Read more...White America’s Toxic Ignorance: Abigail Fisher, Antonin Scalia and the Real Privilege That Goes Unspoken
The fact that Scalia argues against affirmative action comes close to serving as proof that it is sound policy, or at least less bad than the alternatives.
Read more...How Managerialsm/ Generic Management Damaged the American Red Cross
“Managerialism” is a form of looting: coast on an established brand name and goodwill while degrading the actual service in order to pay the top executives more.
Read more...Latinos Live Longest Despite Poverty. Here’s Their Secret
Contrary to conventional wisdom, poor, fresh to the US Latino immigrants are healthier than Latinos born here. Why?
Read more...Koch-Sponsored Sentencing “Reform”: A Fake Break for Minorities, A Get-Out-of-Jail Free Card for White Collar Crooks
How sentencing “reform” will make it more difficult to prosecute white collar criminals.
Read more...Ilargi: Marine Le Pen Will Reap What The EU Has Sown
Thanks to EU and Eurozone misrule, Le Pen is right when she says: “Nothing can stop us”.
Read more...How Economics and Race Drive America’s Great Divide
On how race plays into the operation of a “dual economy”.
Read more...The Internet of Things – Supplied or Demanded?
An intriguing comparison of how the Internet of Things is being sold in the US and Japan.
Read more...Why Paul Krugman Blew It on His ‘Solution’ for Gentrification
One of the fallacies of proposals to limit gentrification is the idea that promoting more development in cities leads to more affordable housing. Stratified markets mean this is not a simply “supply and demand” problem.
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