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Media Matters for America. ‘Governor Supercuts' for President? by Jim Hightower on Creators. Not too many years ago, any news story about bonus money would've been about some 20-year-old baseball player — an up-and-coming superstar getting $100,000 or so on top of his salary as an extra incentive to join the Yankees, Giants, Red Sox or whatever team.

Sportswriters dubbed them: "Bonus Babies. " How quaint. These days, stories about bonus money don't elicit cheers, for they feature some of society's least admirable people: Wall Street bankers. Far from superstars, they can be subpar performers or even what amounts to crime syndicate bosses overseeing everything from simple fraud to laundering money for drug cartels. Yet, in the first part of each year, we witness this cluster of greedmeisters quaffing champagne, laughing uproariously and shouting, "It's bonus time, baby!

" This year, even though the Wall Street bosses have presided over a 30 percent drop in their banks' profits, they've extracted a 15 percent raise in overall bonus money, totaling a ridiculous $27 billion. Really? It's All Politics. Wonkette — The D.C. Gossip. Consortiumnews | Independent Investigative Journalism Since 1995. Paul Krugman. Paul Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page and continues as professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. He has taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford. At MIT he became the Ford International Professor of Economics. Mr. Krugman is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes.

At the same time, Mr. The Nation. Special Kathy Nickolaus is special in more ways then one | PolitiScoop. Madison Wisconsin - Breaking news today in the Prosser/Kloppenburg recount -- as it turns out the software that Kathy Nickolaus used the night of the election was written specifically for her.

Yes, I am not kidding you. Politiscoop for the last few weeks have been pressing the GAB to explain this. The Fix is on article we published on Sunday, 10 April 2011. Since then we have been asking for answers -- we have even emailed the pdf of what we were sent and we have yet to receive an answer from the GAB. Could it be this new revelation played a part in Prosser appearing to have won the election two days before the votes were cast? -- We still don't know and we do not know why there has not been an answer given to us. Today the website revealed that a through an open records request an email was sent to county clerks around Wisconsin.

The GAB has since declined comment on the matter. Related Items: The Right-Wing Network Behind the War on Unions.