New IRS Scrutiny for Tax-Exempt Political Cash
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 14th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
New IRS Scrutiny for Tax-Exempt Political Cash
Romney Leads GOP Field on Health Care
Ezra Klein, Washington Post
What makes Mitt Romney’s health-care troubles particularly perverse is that, by all rights, he’s the one candidate in the Republican field who’s really accomplished something on the issue. This graph uses data from the Kaiser Family Foundation to chart the number of uninsured in each Republican contender’s home state. In states where there are two likely Republicans — say, Minnesota, where both Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann receive their mail, or Texas, which elected both Ron Paul and Rick Perry — I’ve grouped them…
Can Southern Dems Rebound?
Jamelle Bouie, The American Prospect
Mike Berlon believes that he can rebuild the Democratic Party of Georgia. Elected state party chair in January, after serving eight years as party chair for the second-largest county in the state, Berlon has the unenviable task of recovering from last year's electoral disaster. He is more than upfront about the party's failure: “We lost all of our statewide races, we lost every race for constitutional officer, and all of our candidates lost by more than 10 percent.”
America’s Slowdown
James Piereson, The American Spectator
With The Great Stagnation, Tyler Cowen has given us a provocative and highly controversial assessment of the U.S. economy. Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason University, the co-proprietor of the popular blog Marginal Revolution, and the author of a monthly business column for the New York Times, argues that the U.S. economy has been stagnating for more than a generation due to a slowdown in technological invention and progress. The slowdown in invention is behind several current adverse trends, among them rising inequality, stagnating wages and income for the middle class, rising…
The Medical Mystery of Mitt Romney
Dana Milbank, Washington Post
From China this week came the rare news that twin girls had been born with a single body and two heads.Here in America, though, we have an even more unusual case: Two people conjoined in the body of a 64-year-old man. His name is Mitt Romney.
