Allan Grayson Supports The Buffett Plan For Trade

Conservative Repression In Spain

Click here for an article by the Editorial Board in the New York Times telling of a law just signed by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, leader of the conservative party which controls both houses of the legislature. The harsh austerity measures the government has embraced in the recent financial crisis have given rise to many large popular demonstrations in protest. Now peaceful protesters may find themselves subject of fines of at least 30,000 euro; even as much as 600,000 euro. (The opposition party seems poised to make large gains in the next election.)

Lincoln on Labor v, Capital

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed, Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration, - Abraham Lincoln

Fun With Electricity!

Creative Financing Must Be Rewarded!

From Daily Kos, Cheers & Jeers, by Bill in Portland Maine:

The Cliff's Notes version: Louisiana free-market capitalists push a Trojan horse into Maine in the form of a new law that "provides tax credits to investors who back businesses in low-income communities." The Trojan horse is greeted in the Maine legislature to thunderous applause. A struggling paper mill is targeted for "backing." In the dead of night, the free-market capitalists leap out of the Trojan horse, push the paper mill into bankruptcy, strand 200 now-unemployed employees in the low-income town of East Millinocket, and then feast on the spoils:

Sometime this year, the state of Maine will cut two checks worth a total of $2.8 million and mail them to out-of-state investors. Next year, it will send two more checks, worth $3.2 million, to the same recipients. It will repeat that process for the next three years until roughly $16 million of taxpayer money has been withdrawn from Maine’s General Fund.

…and given on a silver platter to the Louisiana carpetbaggers, who, of course, have no comment.

Wingsuit Video

Good Police Work in San Berdoo

Martin Freeman Ad For The Labour Party

I wonder if he could be talked into doing an ad for the Democrats?