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Gingrich’s Ex-Wife: I Refused To Have An ‘Open Marriage’

Newt Gingrich asked his ex-wife to agree to an “open marriage” so he could carry on an affair, Marianne Gingrich told ABC News in an exclusive interview set to air Thursday evening.

So…he thinks same sex marriage is a threat to traditional marriage but swinging is ok? Did his ceremony declare them to be man and wife and a ‘lil something on the side?

owsposters: Internet Illiterates Making Internet Law Download the poster pack Author’s note: I created this in attempt to convey what appears to be the principle concern and rallying point among Occupy movements concerning Internet Blacklist legislation. I hope the ability to campaign for Congress opens more broadly to diverse concerned citizens without them having to… Continue reading Untitled

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things like public libraries, used bookstores, and the widespread practice of lending books to friends all cost publishers money. But nobody (I hope) is going to introduce the Stop Used Bookstores Now Act purely on these grounds. The public policy question is not whether the libraries are bad for publishers, but whether libraries are beneficial… Continue reading Untitled

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Deadweight loss exists any time the profit-maximizing price of a unit of something exceeds the cost of producing an extra unit. In a highly competitive market in which many sellers are offering largely undifferentiated goods, profit margins are low and deadweight loss is tiny. But the whole point of copyright is that the owner of… Continue reading Untitled

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One difficulty in fighting against son-of-SOPA legislative efforts is going to be that anti-SOPA campaigning has focused very heavily on the most extreme elements of the bill and not quite aimed at the core of the underlying dubious economic and public policy arguments driving the legislation What’s Still In Play In SOPA

The Tea Party. Silent on NDAA, Silent on SOPA.

Check out the web sites for the major Tea Party umbrella groups. They had nothing to say about the NDAA and now they have nothing to say about SOPA. They are really upset about the Obama recess appointment for a head of the CFPA. That’s the big outrage story in Tea Party land. Amazing how… Continue reading The Tea Party. Silent on NDAA, Silent on SOPA.

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The great era of US economic growth was the postwar generation; even during the good years of the 90s we didn’t achieve comparable growth, and overall, the post-Reagan era was marked by slower growth than the equivalent period of time pre-Reagan. And I haven’t even gotten into the income distribution thing. All of which makes… Continue reading Untitled

Chris Hedges: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by the president Dec. 31.

I’d like to see more challenges to the NDAA related detention provisions. Why the ACLU is dropping the ball on this is a mystery to me.

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America is both especially unequal and has especially low mobility. But he also argues that because we are even more unequal now than we were a generation ago, we should expect even less social mobility going forward. Very illuminating — and disturbing. (via The Great Gatsby Curve – NYTimes.com) Wow. This looks awful.