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Here’s Mitt Romney’s plan to revitalize the American auto industry:

Force the Big 3 into bankruptcy
“New labor agreements”
Fire the management
Management/Labor harmony
Profit sharing for the workers
A “managed bankruptcy”

There are several things wrong with this, but they all share the same common denominator, and it’s one that seems to underly the same several things that are wrong with [...]

When this site was launched years ago, it was because the ideas of the left were getting tired and needed to be reinvented for the 21st century. Scratch your head and try and remember what the left was all about 10 years ago.
I remember Amy Goodman venting her spleen against Bill Clinton for bombing Sudan. World peace [...]

…look the American auto industry IS tough to defend. They are and have been in cahoots with the oil industry. They did get themselves into this mess. I’d love to see huge reform of everything. I’m just saying—IF you’re gonna bail out the filthy financials, these guys deserve it more.

I’m agnostic on this. I’m not sure she’ll do a better job than Richardson, who is objectively more qualified. And the idea that John Kerry, who should be rolling out his own special edition of Summer’s Eve, is “owed” something by Obama for giving him the 2004 keynote is beyond ridiculous.
My interest in this story [...]

This is getting hard to understand.
There’s $700B to Happy Hank and $130B to AIG and so on and so forth, but Congress won’t cough up money for the auto industry?
I’ll be the first to lay blame at the US automakers. The last car they made worth owning was early editions of the Saturn. There should [...]

DailyKos at DefCon 1, multiple heads exploding.
Obama continues to build his team of rivals.

One of my hobbies over the last few years has been to read up on cycles of oppression. Like many with liberal parents, I heard the ravings of my parents against the Reagan Democrats: these people are too stupid to vote in their own interest. Thomas Franck’s What’s The Matter With Kansas explores that topic [...]

Surely this will continue to further move the blogosphere into the Green Party, wondering who this black Republican they elected is. I for one think that this is a brilliant way of (1) rewarding Hillary’s support in the same way other’s support would have been rewarded (2) parlaying Bill Clinton’s popularity overseas and (3) giving [...]

I’ll play with my spreadsheet later before I do a “call,” but I would safe that the safe money is on Begich winning. I’ve played with MN-SEN over and over, and I just can’t get anything that doesn’t have too much error built in.
UPDATE: Can’t do it. I just don’t have enough data at the [...]

I’m so glad to see this.
Hillary’s plan may have had more entry political costs. But that was something to worry about when we thought this election would be close. Obama’s plan means people will often wait until they are sick to buy in, which means that the Republicans get a cost issue built in.
This is [...]

¡¡¡OH NOES!!! Obama hires Confederate Propagandist Sam Nunn to do Pentagon transition. Definitely time to impeach! We let him slide when he picked Zionist Terrorist Rahm Emmanuel for Chief of Staff and had a conversation with misogynist pig Larry Summers—we even let it go when he said he might leave a Republican as Secretary of [...]

It only took a week.
I’ve been for class-based affirmative action since I was in high school, so I’m actually glad to see this. I guess part of me just feels the timing is a bit tacky. I do think that affirmative action is now a politically difficult argument for liberals. Yeah, yeah, I know, I [...]

On the Jewish holiday of Purim, Jews get drunk and use noisemakers to “blot out the name” of Haman as it is read from the scroll. The Scroll of Esther gives Haman an Amalekite genealogy, meaning that his name falls under the commandment:
…when God gives you peace from all the enemies around you in the land [...]

I was writing my thoughts on my college-assigned webserver space in the mid 90s. It wasn’t much of a “blog” because there was no database mechanism or syndication—it was not even made with Notepad, it was made with Pico. But, needless to say, I was doing it from the beginning. 
In the 90s, I had a [...]

Omaha Herald confirms Polemic’s call of NE-02’s EV for Obama
http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10481441

…I think I need to stop reading my usual rundown of political stuff. I’m starting to already here every detail about why Obama’s administration choices (that haven’t even been announced yet) are EVIL. I’m not reading this at The Corner, or RedState.
It’s the liberals.
Are you people fucking serious? If ever there was a time to [...]

Five months ago…I considered 355 to be my “blowout” scenario. Today we know it’s 365.
Seven months ago…Judge Posner clamored for re-regulation, beating his economic soulmate Bubbles Greenspan to the punch by six months.
Nine months ago… still in the heat of the primaries, I said here’s $5 Obama won’t repeal NAFTA. I stand by that prediction, [...]

1. Election Day
Polemic called Kentucky based on benchmark counties at 6:34 est. The Networks waited until 7:01. They beat us by three minutes on Vermont. We called SC at 7:35 and WV and 7:37. CBS called SC at 7:48. We were just about tied on the big load of obvious at 8. NBC called PA [...]

365.
Method: Approximately 17,000 votes to be counted. Obama won early voting 61%. 5,200 provision ballots, assuming 2/3rds validity are split 50/50 (a conservative estimate for) gives McCain +2600+2900=5,500, Obama +2600+6100=8700 for a net of approximately 3,200, or, about 5 times his current deficit of 569 votes.
P.S. Just to brag: we got twothree forecasts wrong here [...]

Here is a robocall I laid on evangelical voters in Springfield, MO on Sunday. I was right to think it was a close state. Barr did fairly well in Greene County. (; I take full responsibility for this and I paid for the calls.
But, it’s over, so all’s well that ends well.
robocall1
…and here’s one that [...]

Wasilla Hillbillies.
Didn’t know Africa was a country.
Didn’t know who was in NAFTA.
Came out to debate prep in a towel.
Refused interview prep for Couric interview.
Had hissy fits.
Even if all of this is true, none of it is true. It is coming from Mitt Romney loyalists that are doing their best to throw the sinking Palin an [...]

Dear President-elect Obama: Go “all in” on health care.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/elections/2008/11/ussenate.html

I guess the networks are more tentative than a state’s own election officials? Nah, they’re just missing it. Obama wins North Carolina.
Raleigh Observer: Unofficial returns show Obama ahead by 13,746 votes.
Trends over the last 14 years point to Obama having a wider lead after the provisionals are counted, said Gary Bartlett, executive director of the State [...]

I hate to sound like this, because making light of someone’s death makes light of the pain his loved one’s may be feeling. But, Crichton has no familial relationship to me. All I know is that his greatest impact on the world was to drum up a bunch of non-sense about global warming being fake.
Look, [...]