The Red White and Blue Pill
Libertarian Economists Should’ve Loved Silk Road—Here’s Why They Didn’t
Silk Road has been called an economic experiment gone wrong. And if you look at Ulbricht’s trial, it’s clear that many things went wrong. Even the most idealistic supporters of Silk Road couldn’t ignore that it turned Ulbricht into a kingpin who acted violently toward those who he thought might compromise the anonymity of the marketplace.
Libertarian experiments keep turning out exactly how liberals say they will turn out.
Poll Finds 80% Of REPUBLICANS Agree With Bernie Sanders On Citizens United
Not surprised. There is a right wing noise machine that spends a lot of time on silly outrage politics and prevents actual compromise. I bet a really good compromise on campaign finance would happen if we had issues based politics rather than outrage and horserace politics.
The strange case of Denny Hastert: The other reason why his indictment is so disturbing
Schtupenfreude is the joy you feel when a politician you hate is in a career ruining sex scandal.
Obama has had a really tough time, but there have been a lot of things that he’s compromised on that I never would have expected. I mean, drones and domestic spying are the last things I would have thought [he’d support]. (via Hope dashed: Obama poster artist says president is a disappointment | US news… Continue reading Obama poster artist says president is a disappointment
The Debate Over the TPP – Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Interesting point on NAFTA and the TPP. Worth a read.
A Woman Tweets #KillAllWhiteMen and the Internet Explodes
Mustafa is not the first to have her reputation raked across the Web on account of some lousy tweets. But she may be the first to crumble over a case of ironic misandry, a tongue-in-cheek form of discourse favored by the young feminist Internet natives. You may have spied them on Twitter or Tumblr, working on their “KILL ALL MEN” cross-stitch or sipping from a mug labeled “MALE TEARS.” Ironic misandrists say they’re poking fun at long-standing stereotypes about militant feminist man-haters. That seems to fit Mustafa’s tweets. In a statement to Goldsmiths students, she owned up to using the hashtags, calling them “in-jokes” between herself and other members of “the queer feminist community.” If some people failed to get the joke, well, that was kind of the point.
I think many people would recognize this overreaction to a bad joke as political correctness. Chalk this up as yet another underreported case of right wing political correctness given a pass.
Why You Can’t Have “Family Values” Without Valuing Fathers
When my wife was pregnant and I realized I would need to be home, I discovered that Time Warner had this strange policy under which anyone could get ten paid weeks, unless you were a man who impregnated the mother of a child. I went, in private, straight to [the Time Warner] benefits [department] and said, “I’m sure this is an oversight and you didn’t mean to exclude dads.” They wouldn’t give me an answer for months. Then my daughter was born in an emergency delivery, and eleven days later I’m home holding my four-pound preemie, messaging benefits, saying “Hey, I need an answer.” That’s when they wrote back to say that they would be unable to give me paid leave benefits. I decided to file a suit with the EEOC for gender discrimination.
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Paid leave is not a law requiring businesses to pay you when you’re out. Paid family leave is an insurance system that would tax 20 cents for every $100 you make. Studies show that when people find out what paid leave is, they support it.
Rand Paul would not abolish the NSA
Does Rand Paul understand that the bulk records collection and all the other awful programs that people are objecting to are defended by the NSA and others as being activities “towards our enemies.”
It’s really hard to tell if he is naive or disingenuous.
Not a slam dunk but this reinforces other studies showing little to no growth due to capital gain tax cuts.