New Orleans Like a modern version of the 12 days before Christmas, I think we could all start listing a daily beating we are taking from business, government, or both. Yesterday news came out that a fair chunk of the $26 billion settlement with banks over their home mortgage scandals and abuses with the state …
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The Cynicism of “Class War” in Presidential Campaign
New Orleans Nate Silver takes a hard look at the prospects of the Obama campaign this November in the Times magazine section and concludes its good strategy to ramp up the populism. By his numbers if Obama pushes the pop-buttons hard, the Midwest might fall in line, and then the race is won. First, none of …
Web Protest in Battle of the Titans
New Orleans The Stop On-Line Piracy Act (SOPA) at least means soup in Spanish, so there’s at least one good thing about it. Other than that it seems to be about big Hollywood and others trying to use poorly written domestic legislation in a ham-handed way to strike out at Russian, Chinese, and other foreign …