Month July 2008

Stop Schwarzenegger: Sign the petition

But is the threat to cut wages of state workers to minimum wage until a budget passes just posturing by Schwarzenegger? “It’s a political ploy; of course it is,” said Sen. Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. “But it’s a pretty cheap political…

About that foreclosure suicide

Tanta at Calculated Risk does some digging, and wonders why mainstream media missed important facts, like why the cop said (with no proof) that the couple must have had an adjustable rate mortgage, why the husband said he had no…

Gordon Brown and Labour Party = toast

The left-leaning Scottish National Party, who advocate secession from the UK, just scored a major upset in a Glasgow East election, taking a once safe Labour Party seat. This is the third time in nine weeks the Labour Party has…

New boss same as the old?

From an anonymous political consultant on JoeBageant.com Barack Obama is in short order a far more reassuring prospect for the continued dominance of the financial elite than another four years of neo-conservative rule which in an almost historically unique combination…