Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) tried to sneak an amendment to revive D.C.’s voucher program into the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization yesterday
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Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Fails to Save D.C. Schoolkids from D.C. Schools
The heavily circulated story of a baby who died while her parents played a computer game has inspired a remarkable feat of fearmongering from Slate columnist William Saletan.
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Reading Slate Can Kill!
According to Congressional Quarterly , it looks like there’s a good chance that health care reform may be being held up by inconvenient scoring from the Congressional Budget Office. As it stands, the final text of the reconciliation bill—which would amend the Senate health reform bill—has yet to be released. Seems the reason why may be that the CBO is saying that the changes House Democrats want to make would cost too much
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C-B-Oh No! Budget Office Holds Up Health Reform?
Uh oh, the violent teabaggers are at it again, hyperbolizing about totalitarianism and advocating open revolt : The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable. Brace yourself.
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Heyyyyy! Think the Time Is Right for a Palace Revolution
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Reason alum Ryan Sager writes about the connection between ease-of-payment and increased levels of taxation. If our priority is to experience as little pain from taxes as possible, we could go down the road California is on with its ReadyReturn program, available to people with income only from wages and only one employer
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One Good Reason to Keep Income Tax Returns as Totally Freaking Annoying as Possible.
Glenn Greenwald notes a phenomenon I discussed/predicted back in 2003 and again in 2007 regarding how the world’s thought leaders tend to spin a war once its biggest costs are seemingly in the past.
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Iraq: Mission Accomplished! (Really, Now)
In honor of this week’s 10th anniversary of the dotcom stock market peak, NetworkWorld’s Paul McNamara rounds up some entertaining contemporary coverage of a market bust that seemed impressive at the time but now stands in relation to the real estate bust as the Great War stands to World War II: A few of the names live on as poster children for failure, of course: Pets.com, Kozmo.com, MVP.com and Go.com… [T]here were remarkable and enduring successes during this period — Amazon, eBay, Craigslist, Yahoo, Google — even if it would be insulting to call them dot-coms and their real fortunes had so many chasing empty dreams. Highlights include this CNet obituary for one celebrity-enabled digital cash site: Flooz.com was a perfect example of a “what the heck were they thinking?” business
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Ten Years Ago This Week: A Requiem for Petopia
Some positive developments this week in two ongoing Mississippi stories I’ve been covering. First, the Mississippi Court of Appeals has rejected the state’s motion for a rehearing in the Cory Maye case. Maye was convicted of capital murder for killing a police officer who broke into his home during a 2001 drug raid.
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Good News From Mississippi
Climategate and glaciergate have set off a firestorm of criticism against the less-than-transparent Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. Bowing to public pressure, the IPCC is now seeking an independent review of it procedures by the InterAcademy Council. The IAC is the umbrella organization for various national academies of science from countries around the world.
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Independent Review of U.N. Climate Panel Set
A meme gathers steam, care of pop-ed sociologist David Brooks : About 40 years ago, a social movement arose to destroy the establishment. The people we loosely call the New Left wanted to take on The Man, return power to the people, upend the elites and lead a revolution. Today, another social movement has arisen
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Tea Party/Baby Boomer Watch
