Gawking At S1867

Dec 13th, 2011

Gawker's Lauri Apple has a great piece on "20 Things You Should Know About America's Most Horrifying Law." Although I have written extensively about the indefinite detention provisions in S1867, I did not know this:

"Texas Republicans have somehow worked sex with animals into all this."

In all seriousness, she has assembled a very thorough set of sources and links.

Saturday Round Up of Interesting Things

Sept 3rd, 2011

Just a few recommendations.

-  If you haven't already read it, former Reagan and Bush 1 economic adviser Bruce Bartlett's endorsement of higher taxes on the wealthy is a must.

"Growth was stronger in the 1990s when the relative revenue loss was small and was dismal during the George W. Bush administration, when two-thirds of the aggregate revenue loss occurred.

It is not class warfare to suggest that the richest 1 percent of people in society pay one-third of their income to the federal government, as they did under Ronald Reagan. Keep in mind that dividends were taxable as ordinary income every year of his administration, and in the Tax Reform Act of 1986 he supported taxing capital gains as ordinary income as well."