Editors' Blog
Republicans in Wonderland with "Voluntary Taxation" by Norman Markowitz
What do you do when the lunatics are threatening to take over the asylum? And the asylum is the federal government of the United States? And the lunatics are presidential candidates and elected representatives?
A Legible Marxist IQ for Mitt, with Apologies to Our Readers by Norman Markowitz
I sent the coming week's Marxist IQ through and something strange happened. The body of the text was so small it was not legible. Maybe this is a shape of things to come in a Romney administration, if it comes to that. Nevertheless, here is the IQ all over again
Jacob Riis, Mit Romney and the How Other Half Lives by Norman Markowitz
Below at the end of this commentary are two clips from YouTube which taken together capture the surreal world that the Republican presidential candidate(regarded as a "moderate" when he ran against Gingrich and Santorum) lives in. The is someone reading from an American classic "How the Other Half Lives," by Jacob Riis, a journalist writing about proliferating tenement slums of New York as industrialization saw its population expand massively in the late 19th century. Besides the words, Riis used a relatively new medium photography to show readers what he was talking about.
Nicholas Kristof: Bloice's Quote of the Day
Quote of the DaySeptember 16, 2012'(For my part, I think Obama should indeed set a redline - warning Netanyahu to stop interfering inAmerican elections.) 'Columnist Nicholas KristofNew York TimesSeptember 16, 2012http://tinyurl.com/9jkn9yk
Gail Collin's -- Bloice's Quote of the Day
via Carl Bloice
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that in 2011, median household income declined, the poverty rate was not statistically different from the previous year and the percentage of people without health insurance coverage decreased.
