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Daily Roundup – March 21, 2013
Today on BaddiesBoogie I began with a look at the rather depressing new bill passed by our crap legislature banning funds for political science research, and considered the real debate going on for the...
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Here’s why Koch Industries is turning its focus to Newspapers
On Sunday, the NY Times reported on a story that for all intents and purposes has been under-reported and lost in the news cycle. Koch Industries, the egregiously massive conglomerate that pulls in...
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Belgium, France and Spain have 100 percent of their kids in pre-K. We have 51...
Well really according to this awesome interactive map, Belgium and Spain stand at 99 percent, but you get the idea. One of the more bold ideas to come out of President Obama’s last State of the Union...
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Republican intransigence the biggest threat to Obamacare
Rally in support of ACA in front of SCOTUS (cc photo by LaDawna Howard) The key to any good and lasting public policy is knowing what works, and what doesn’t, and implementing new strategies and...
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The Daily Roundup
Rally in support of ACA in front of SCOTUS (cc photo by LaDawna Howard) Today on Left and Center, Publius argued that Republican intransigence is the biggest threat to the success of the Affordable...
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Why the Government is Justified in Collecting Your Phone Records
When I first read this story — exclusively broke by Glenn Greenwald in the Guardian — I didn’t think it was a new story at all. I still don’t. Glenn writes: The National Security Agency is currently...
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A Dissent to Edward Snowden’s Q & A
There are a number of ways to consider NSA “whistle-blower” Edward Snowden’s Q & A session held today, courtesy of the Guardian: it’s obviously worthwhile to hear more information from the source...
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Obama’s Climate Change Rollout Casts Light On A Broken GOP
This afternoon, in a speech at Georgetown University, President Obama will lay out a barrage of energy and climate policies to tackle global climate change, based almost entirely on the use of...
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Conservatives Don’t Give A Damn About Governing
Before Barack Obama took office for the first time, lawmakers used to joke that the legislative process is not too different from watching sausage get made: neither side much enjoyed the hammering out...
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Is Washington Really In A “Post-Policy Moment”?
Peter Suderman has an interesting theory about the state of affairs in government: Washington, he says, is in a “post-policy moment”. His core premise is that both parties have achieved their...
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Best Of The Week
The most popular posts of the week both had to do with the saddening swell of violence and terror in Egypt this week: Violence Erupts In Egypt — Reactions & Analysis, and my follow up piece Egypt...
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