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Weird Science: Non-existent ACORN Election Shenanigans

Toronto This is so weird and bizarre it’s frightening and unsettling, but in the release of a poll yesterday 1 out of every 5 Americans still believe that ACORN is likely to “steal” the midterm elections this coming November!

I can’t make up stuff this crazy, so here’s the full report from Public Policy Polling:

No Prep Labor Days

New Orleans I don’t have the energy on a Labor Day for the anger, but there’s no escaping the ironies!

The New York Times writes an editorial on “Labor Day, Now and Then,” and while noting that Labor Day dates earlier than other holidays mindlessly say the following:

“…nature doesn’t seem quite as rude as it once [...]

Recession Way Not Over: Krugman

New Orleans To be clear Paul Krugman, the Princeton-based, Nobel prize winning, New York Times writing columnist has a dog in this race:  he argued that the stimulus package to pull out of the recession needed to be way bigger from the get-go.  But, looking past the “I told you so,” he is dead on [...]

Ending Real Estate Broker Bribes

New Orleans After years of pleading from tens of groups, the lackadaisical
Federal Reserve with its laissez faire view of its regulatory responsibility, finally outlawed the
infamous “yield spread premium” enjoyed for years by real estate brokers and their co-
conspirator lenders, both of whom continue to have escaped any accountability for the real estate
mess by and large, [...]

Tactics and Strategy When Law Has No Meaning

Tegucigalpa Dilcia Zavala, ACORN Honduras director in Tegucigalpa, led us across town until to Colonia Ramon Amaya Amador near the international airport where we parked on a rough, unpaved road and walked into a garage where more 60 people, virtually all women, were already seated waiting for us.  For the next several hours we [...]

Text and Email Surveillance

New Orleans This almost seems like one of these surreal déjà vu moments where you have to pinch yourself and try to remember where you are and where you are going.  I was writing a note about the way Chinese workers were using modern technology and keeping it positive, when not [...]