Today on the list: What Robert Reich wants to do about jobs, why liberals don’t win and how Oxytocin increases trust (guess that explains modern politics, Whole Foods and Rush Limbaugh).
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Stanley Fish: Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal
During my tenure as the dean of a college, I determined that an underperforming program should be closed. My wife asked me if I had ever set foot on the premises, and when I answered “no,” she said that I really should do that before wielding the axe.
WHY LIBERALS DON’T WIN
In an amazing piece of masochism and anti-historical argument, The Center for American Progress has dubbed those who support the Tenth Amendment “Tenthers,” an obvious play on “birthers.”
Empirically, it is fair to say that liberals now oppose the Second and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution and don’t give a damn about the Fourth Amendment as long as a Democratic president is dismantling it.
That didn’t quite go as planned. But Johnston’s got his eye on another prize: The Wasilla, Alaska, city hall. Johnston wants to run for mayor—and yes, the cameras will be following him. As Variety wrote earlier today, Stone and Co. is shooting a pilot starring Johnston, which it then plans to shop to the networks.
THE JOBS EMERGENCY AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Washington’s latest answer to the worst jobs crisis since the Great Depression is $26 billion in aid to state and local governments. This still leaves the states and locales more than $62 billion in the hole this fiscal year. And because every state except Vermont has to balance its budget, the likely result is 600,000 to 700,000 more state and local jobs vanishing over the next 12 months (including private contractors and other businesses that depend on state and local governments) according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Say goodbye to even more of the teachers, firefighters, sanitary workers, and police officers we depend on.
The Rubin Con Goes On
The corruptions of journalism were on full display when CNN’s Fareed Zakaria turned to Robert Rubin this past Sunday for advice on how to fix the financial crisis that he, as much as anyone, caused. I was trapped on a treadmill in front of an overhead television and unable to turn the thing off in time to avoid this assault on my mental and physical health.
Mr. G Is Right
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs ranted that “the professional left” needed to be drug tested for their complaints and attacks on the Obama administration after all the good things Obama has done. I agree.
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By Micah, August 12, 2010 at 11:46 am Link to this comment
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Draft Reich to take over some financial dept. in the Obama administration. I really thought Obama would bring in great, forward thinking, fair-minded people this Reich. This guys has always had my admiration and respect. He has his values in such a good place and very common sense about it all.
Reich has the advantage of being short so that he can see closer to the ground. Applause for Reich! It’s time to fire all the tall economists and hire the short ones.
Remember the news about Rand Paul’s college exploits? You know, kidnapping the girl?
Hundreds and hundreds of news reports. Lamestream, mainstream, left, Fox, blogs, chit-chat. All painstakingly qualifying who Rand Paul is, because, you know, nobody’s heard about him despite his being incessantly all over the media for the past few months, and despite his airing thousands of dollars of commercials himself.
News reporting. Thorough, right?
Well, scour the liberal media AND the conservative media, and do you know what you’ll find?
NOT A SINGLE REPORTER EXPLAINED WHAT A BONG HIT IS!
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By Micah, August 12, 2010 at 11:46 am Link to this comment
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Draft Reich to take over some financial dept. in the Obama administration. I really thought Obama would bring in great, forward thinking, fair-minded people this Reich. This guys has always had my admiration and respect. He has his values in such a good place and very common sense about it all.
Report thisBy Shift, August 12, 2010 at 9:37 am Link to this comment
Reich has the advantage of being short so that he can see closer to the ground. Applause for Reich! It’s time to fire all the tall economists and hire the short ones.
Report thisBy FiftyGigs, August 12, 2010 at 5:09 am Link to this comment
This is so freaking astonishing.
Remember the news about Rand Paul’s college exploits? You know, kidnapping the girl?
Hundreds and hundreds of news reports. Lamestream, mainstream, left, Fox, blogs, chit-chat. All painstakingly qualifying who Rand Paul is, because, you know, nobody’s heard about him despite his being incessantly all over the media for the past few months, and despite his airing thousands of dollars of commercials himself.
News reporting. Thorough, right?
Well, scour the liberal media AND the conservative media, and do you know what you’ll find?
NOT A SINGLE REPORTER EXPLAINED WHAT A BONG HIT IS!
Stop and think about that.
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