The fantasy behind places like Revel is that there are people who have stupid amounts of money to spend, and that those people will choose to spend it at an Atlantic City casino. More than that, there are so many of those people that you can fill a 47...
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Bring the band back together. The president should announce that he has told the Justice Department to appoint an independent investigator with bulldog instincts and bipartisan credibility. The list of candidates could start with Kenneth Starr, who chased...
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The real issue here is that the staffers are a wee bit less cazy than the Reps. The House GOP (and Senate, mostly) don't listen to the crazy base, they are the crazy base....
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I don't think it's a given that poor people in cities automatically have a community due to living in close proximity to others, but it is the case that cities tend to have public transit and social services that are lacking in the suburbs....
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Senator Coburn will only support helping his state if others get some of their own suffering. That's how they think....
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I suppose if this shit actually reflected concern about terrorism or drug trafficking, there'd be a story they could tell. But, HSBC....
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Or, you know, not. Some of these subsidiaries had no employees and were largely run by top officials from the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., according to Congressional investigators. But by officially locating them in places like Ireland,...
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Nothing to add, but tornado news out of Oklahoma is not good.
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I'm just not sure it's different than sadism. Sure, supporting the Iraq war was serious, but going door to door with giant guns telling Iraqis to suck on this, or supporting the war because you thought "the prudent use of violence could be therapeutic"(Richard...
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Translation. And exegesis (audio) featuring both a Nooners and a Mitchipoo imitation....
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Travel day tomorrow so blogging will likely be suckier than usual.
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The Texas judiciary proves yet once more that it is merely a puppet doing the bidding of the Obama administration....
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We could build the California HSR for this, basically. And we spend it every year. It's 4 times the GDP of Afghanistan. The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the...
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It may seem hard to believe, but long before the Dancin' Master took over for Working Class Tim, Meet the Press provided an actual service to the public. Also interesting that the right wing bias was pretty much in place back then....
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David Waldman's weekly compilation of reported gun accidents. Hashtag: #gunFail
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