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Excelent Stiglitz piece…

Does a great job of summarizing the two tiered justice system we have…

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stiglitz131

From Daily Kos newsletter…

Democrats in Congress are not known for their shrewd negotiating ability. We saw this when their attempt to repeal the Bush tax cuts for millionaires resulted in… those tax cuts being extended. We saw it when the stimulus, the health insurance bill, and any number of pieces of legislation were much weaker than they should [...]

Krugman on Republican “deficit hawks”…

“To say that the whole deficit thing was a political ploy, with no substance behind it, sounded shrill.The truth often does.”

Really, that’s the problem with the whole conversation today – we’re so far off the rails that the “truth” sounds exceptional, when it’s anything but. To quote Goebbels:

“The bigger the lie, the more [...]

Salman Taseer quote…

“Frankly, it’s up to God to decide whether I’m a Muslim or not”

- Salman Taseer, June 12th, 1946 – January 4th, 2011

Or Christian, or Jewish, or “faithful”, or whatever…

While I agree with him in a number of areas, I must say I don’t (didn’t?) agree with his take on treatment of terrorists [...]