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Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr

Rortybomb crunches the numbers and builds a profile of the 99% tumblr blog. Wonky. Lots of numbers and some charts. Worth the read.

Tea Partiers Turn Tea Party Criticisms On Occupy Wall Street

It was inevitable that the Occupy Wall Street protests would be compared to the tea party. Slightly less inevitable: that Occupy Wall Street would hear the same criticisms as the tea party…from the tea partiers themselves.

As Many As 5 Million Voters Disenfranchised By Voter ID Laws

According to a study done by the Brennan Center For Justice, as many as 5 million voters will be disenfranchised by Voter ID laws passed in Republican states.

49% Of Republicans Don’t Know What The Abbreviation GOP Means

“Seven percent of those surveyed thought it meant Grumpy Old People”

Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales

Long article on Koch energy claims culture of bribery and lawlessness.

Charles Koch Extols Medicare and Social Security To Friederich Hayek

Not from the Onion.

Bachmann Warns of Hezbollah ‘Missile Sites’ in Cuba

If social security actually were a Ponzi scam

If you modify the PIA (Primary Insurance Amount) formula for Social Security to offer typical ponzi scheme type payouts, the median payment jumps from $1,177 to $6,950 per month. The high-end payments would go up to $15k+ a month. And it would run out of money next year, rather than being able to pay 100%… Continue reading If social security actually were a Ponzi scam

Actual Class Warfare

With talk of class warfare in the air, it’s perhaps useful for the sake of context to re-examine the 1929 platform of the Communist Party of Great Britain, titled “Class Against Class” and representing an avowedly class warfare approach to an economic crisis. Here’s what they had to say on tax policy: (1) Abolition of… Continue reading Actual Class Warfare

End the Patriot Act | The White House

Official White House petition to end the Patriot Act.