The stimulus is working already!
Not kidding. There's the provision in the just-signed stimulus bill that allows you to take state sales tax off your income tax -- if you buy a car. (Thanks, Sen. Mikulski! I'm told she slipped it into...
View ArticleWhy We Need to Make Something
America doesn't manufacture much anymore.We all know and have lamented the outsourcing of our jobs... Over the years, in part, because of NAFTA, employers, in search of larger profit margins, have sent...
View ArticleThey've already killed the economy..
Now, the oil barons are trying it again. Though I studied economics in college, it was so long ago that it was all theory-- no econometrics. Therefore, I offer my apologies to Bonddad and Jerome a...
View Articlehere's my health care story
I can't call it a horror story -- because it happened 14 years ago... and because of luck in a couple of places. Maybe I can call it my-there-but-for-the-grace-of-God story.My dad was diagnosed with...
View ArticleWhat Hath Newt Wrought
Keith Olbermann asked the question tonight... and I paraphrase, "What kind of a country have we become when a disabled woman telling her story is heckled at a townhall meeting?" Ladies and Gentlemen,...
View Articlefuneral for a public option
Did you see Keith tonight? he did a segment with Lawrence O'Donnell, who provided some very cogent analysis of the Nancy Pelosi squishiness on the public option.I didn't like what he said -- I don't...
View ArticleI'm starting to see a pattern
I've been hoping against hope now that Labor Day's here, President Obama will bring HOPE back....that he'll listen to people OTHER than the cautious "let's replay the 90's" chorus of Rahm, Robert...
View ArticleSMALL victory
It's short because it just got posted at the NY Times... and I saw it on DU.The president will take a hard line on extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich.... He's decided NOT to take the advice of...
View ArticleBlue Maryland on track to stay blue
In 2006, there was a poll in the last week leading to the election indicating that Then-Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R) and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley (D) were tied. Turned out they weren't. This year, the...
View ArticleInfuriated
I am -- and I shouldn't be -- I am a practicing Catholic who watches the shenanigans at Mass through eyes squinted with cynicism. I know the difference between Man-made church law and God-made church...
View Articlestorm panic
I'm usually pretty blase about storms -- but this one is different..and I'm panicking for a different reason than the people filling their gas tanks (done it), buying water (we're stocked) and bread...
View ArticleHow #GOPUgly is the GOP?
I haven’t posted a diary in years — but then I came across THIS: thehill.com/… and my head exploded. It’s the final straw in the middle of all this #GOPUgly. It’s time Yohos like Rep. Ted Yoho...
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