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Ted Rall Online
You don’t need a job.(Unless you like sitting at a desk. Working on an assembly line. Non-dairy creamer in the break room. In which case I apologize. Freak!)
Economic Dreams - Economic Nightmares
I spent most of my working life in the US Forest Service, battling fundamentalism. Most of the battles dealt with economics. My first job was to coordinate use of a linear programming model (FORPLAN) in the development of forest plans. The model may (or may not) have been useful in projecting overall timber sales volumes from big-timber forests, but to have used it as an overall planning model was a mistake.
Judicial corruption Noam Chomsky on Corporate Personhood
Reagan M. Sova asks Noam Chomsky a question about corporate personhood during Professor Chomsky's talk at the University of Colorado.The talk was a fundraiser for KGNU Independent Community Radio.
TomDispatch
Posted by Chip Ward at 9:25AM, March 27, 2012. [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: Don’t be fooled by Tom’s introduction this morning (pre-prepared). He remains on the road and off the grid until Thursday, but a signed, personalized copy of his book The United States of Fear will wing its way toward you on his return for a contribution of $75 (or more). A similarly signed copy of Michael Klare’s groundbreaking new book, The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources , is also still available (without the time lag) for a contribution of $100. Just check out the original offer or go directly to our donation page . Nick ]
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First Amendment Project
First Amendment Project is a nonprofit organization providing free and low-cost legal services on public interest free speech and free press matters. FAP provides these services to its core constituency of activists, journalists and artists who seek to vindicate important First Amendment rights, but do not have the financial resources to hire private counsel. FAP represents these clients by defending them when they are sued for what they say or write, by contesting governmental non-compliance with open records and meetings laws and in challenging laws, practices and policies that infringe on First Amendment rights.
The Ethical Spectacle
Text with Jonathan Wallace byline is copyright Jonathan Wallace 2012. All other text should be assumed to be the copyright of the bylined author.
Letter from Birmingham Jail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Letter from Birmingham Jail or Letter from Birmingham City Jail , also known as The Negro Is Your Brother , is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. , an American civil rights leader. [ edit ] BackgroundSearch Options Rush Limbaugh Is Bad For Business Limbaugh Also Says President Obama "Put A Bounty Out On The Supreme Court, Figuratively Speaking" ...
Media Matters
Crossposted from Video Cafe Ann Coulter, a controversial backer of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, suggests that conservatives should begin attacking President Barack Obama's two young daughters. On Wednesday, Fox News host Sean Hannity told Coulter that liberals had been "feigning outrage" over radio host Rush Limbaugh calling Georgetown University law student a "slut" because she wanted contraception to be covered by her health insurance. "Coming from people who are constantly telling us about their abortions and their vaginas, no, I find it very hard to believe that they're so upset about any word Rush Limbaugh uses," Coulter explained.
Crooks and Liars
2 hrs ago - Oakland- Richard Lee said he will relinquish ownership of his marijuana-related businesses, including Oaksterdam University, as he braces for a possible federal indictment on tax charges. "I think with my legal issues, it's the best thing," ... ( Oakland Tribune ) 6 hrs ago - Two car bombs have killed at least 18 people in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, officials say.
Democratic Underground
Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip
With all of the Wall Street criminals taking Monday off, and apparently just sick and fucking tired of only being despised by gun nuts on the right, Attorney General Eric Holder sent his G-men in to bother a bunch of fucking hippies at Oaksterdam University. Joined by forces not ratified in the Constitution, and conveniently ignoring a little thing Southerners, Santorum, and racists (same thing) like to yammer on about (i.e. “states rights”), they set out with their $800 government hammers to crash their way through the doors of some of the world’s most dangerous pot growing teachers.FactCheck.org
March 30 The misleading assault on the president’s energy policies continues. A conservative group’s TV ad claims “we will all pay more at the pump” because the administration “blocked” the Keystone XL pipeline. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell claims that the pipeline “could have brought 700,000 barrels of oil to the market … More >> March 29Want more charts like these? See our charts on the secrets of the jobless recovery , the richest 1 percent of Americans , and how the superwealthy beat the IRS . A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household.
It's the Inequality, Stupid | Mother Jones
Steven D. Levitt is an economist. Stephen J. Dubner is a writer.