Monday Open Thread Holiday Week Edition

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7 responses to “Monday Open Thread Holiday Week Edition”

1. 

   ire

   July 5, 2012

   Its provocative. Tell me more.

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   JMPrince

   July 3, 2012

   BTW: Some of the briefest glances at the varied economic struggles behind the American Revolution are highlighted here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-03/how-radical-economics-led-to-u-s-independence.html

   See also the much less well known ‘War of Regulation’ that had nothing much to do with St. Ronnie Ray-Gun either:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Regulation

   Once upon a time people fought for good government & more & better regulation and less personal corruption. Believe it or not. Happy July 4th to all! JMP

3. 

   JMPrince

   July 3, 2012

   About the same things I’ve been saying about it since I arrived when you were likely in grade school still. SSDD. As I said, nothing much new here.

   In other more substantial, consequential & real news:

   “2 of the Last 3 GOP Presidents Signed Larger Tax Increases Than Obamacare” The Atlantic: (Maybe the largest since 1993 however)
   http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/2-of-the-last-3-gop-presidents-signed-larger-tax-increases-than-obamacare/259300/

   Romney’s next big problems with Bain, his lies about same & the abortion issue tied to it:
   http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/02/1105200/-Romney-lied-about-role-in-Bain-s-investment-in-medical-waste-firm-that-disposed-of-aborted-fetuses

   JMP

4. 

   ire

   July 3, 2012

   so what, exactly, are you saying about the south?

5. 

   JMPrince

   July 2, 2012

   Things you wish weren’t more or less true, but somehow are:

   “Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule America”
   By Sara Robinson, AlterNet

   http://www.alternet.org/story/156071/conservative_southern_values_revived%3A_how_a_brutal_strain_of_american_aristocrats_have_come_to_rule_america

   Yeah biased, and it’s much more complicated than that. But it’s there from the start, and it’s always been with us.

   One of the more hopeful interpretations of the ACA outcome:
   “The Court Affirms Our Social Contract”
   By Jack M. Balkin for The Atlantic
   The health-care case wasn’t about broccoli or the Commerce Clause. It was about ratifying a change in our nation’s social policy.

   http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/the-court-affirms-our-social-contract/259186/

   JMP

6. 

   ire

   July 2, 2012

   He also won it!

7. 

   ire

   July 2, 2012

   A Slovak one the first stage of le Tour!