Assorted content to end your week. – Sean Farrell reports on a new OECD study recommending the application of inheritance taxes to reduce wealth inequality. – And Harry Quilter-Pinner discusses Finland’s confirmation that the obvious solution to homelessness – providing housing to people who need it – is also the
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The Disaffected Lib: Paul Ryan Kisses Koch Ass
Republican House speaker, Paul Ryan, doesn’t get it. They should be thanking him, not the other way around. Oh, wait a second. He gets his reward. Ryan offered up a brief video thanking America’s billionaires network for making tax reform for billionaires a reality. “Your network has been instrumental for
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jesse Winter is the latest reporter to tell the stories of a few minimum-wage workers who will see a raise as a result of improved employment standards. And Erika Shaker points out that a substantial minimum-wage increase is a long-overdue response to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Eduardo Porter examines how high-end tax cuts create gains for only the wealthy few. And Lydia DePillis points out that decades of increases to top-end incomes haven’t translated into anything close to proportional spending which would share the gains with society at large.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Sad Anatomical Fact
This is what happens, boys and girls, to those who have had their head up their posterior for more than the recommended duration: Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Are Establishment Republicans Cowering in Their Cellars?
Once he’s sworn into office, could Trump unleash his very own, Republican Reichsmordwoche or “night of the long knives”? That was the week when Adolph Hitler purged his movement of potential threats, such as SA head Ernst Rhom. The number murdered by the SS and Gestapo is unknown. 85 prominent
Continue readingRedBedHead: Joy At Republican Humiliation Shouldn’t Make Us Forget The Choices Sucked
I was in a bar/restaurant near my house on election night, trying to get some work done and watching the results come in. At first it seemed like a nail-biter (though I was convinced that it would be a fairly easy sweep for Obama) and people were texting and Facebooking
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Republican failure shows conservative parties must adapt, like Alberta PCs, or die
Psychological/political portraits of Stephen Harper and Barack Obama by Edmonton artist William Prettie. Used with permission. This too shall pass… Now and then throughout history, as with Whigs and Communists, international political-ideological movements of enormous influence wither and disappear, often quite suddenly. It is rarely their call. Neoconservatives – or neoliberals, call them what you …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Paul Ryan’s Greasy Soup Kitchen Stunt
Romney running mate Paul Ryan really doesn’t like the poor or their soup kitchens. In fact, if he had his way, he’d slash the very social spending they depend on. That’s why it was curious when Ryan, with wife and three kids in tow, showed up uninvited at the soup
Continue readingLeDaro: Joe Biden and Paul Ryan Debate
SNL’s take on the Vice-Presidential debate.
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Tom Morello: ‘jackass’ Ryan embodiment of the machine RATM’s music has been raging against
What’s with Paul Ryan’s Rage Against the Machine appreciation? The Tea Party poster boy listed Rage as one of his fave bands. There is nothing about Ryan’s right-wing politics and certainly not personal style/attitude that announces “RATM fan.” This week in a Hollywood Reporter interview, Rage guitarist Tom Morello said
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: When Seniors Get Angry
You know you’re in trouble when seniors start booing you. Too bad we are still asleep at the switch in Canada when it comes to the unnecessary cuts in OAS that Harper is making: H/t ThinkProgress Recommend this Post
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: How Putin Learned That Putin Was Behind The Plot To Assassinate Putin
How Putin Learned That Putin Was Behind The Plot To Assassinate Putin.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: From The Great Exporter Of Democracy
I guess free speech is something Republicans only value when they export their democratic principles. Recommend this Post
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: The Romney and Ryan smoke and mirrors show
During the Republican nomination race Rick Perry described Mitt Romney as a “vulture capitalist” – a sinister cartoonish metaphor that perfectly describes the predatory business practices that have made Romney his millions. Perry went further – he accused Romney of “picking their bones clean” rather than focusing on ways to
Continue readingLeDaro: Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin, had crying spell during Paul Ryan’s speech at GOP Convention
Another John Boehner of Republican Party. “TAMPA, Fla. — Less than 10 minutes into Rep. Paul Ryan’s vice presidential nomination speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was seen with a big tear running down his face.”
Continue readingLeDaro: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in Tampa – Working hard
…and having some fun.:)
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – On the anniversary of Jack Layton’s death, Tim Harper points out how far the NDP has come in just a year, while Brian Topp highlights where the party still needs to go: (W)hat to do about the federal government’s crisis of relevance? Recent
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Teabagger
Golly. Don't look now eh? But I hear that Stephen Harper has fallen hard for the new Republican heartthrob Paul Ryan. You have to believe that the duo of Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty are salivating at the chance to work with a Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan White House. Ryan is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Our American Cousins?
One can’t help but wonder if Harper’s police force has been giving lessons to their American cousins in stifling free speech at right-wing political rallies. Recommend this Post
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