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And the majority of his opinions are right in line with his colleagues on the Appeals court bench. Nothing to see here. He is a team player. Its his vision of the Imperial Presidency developed for expediency during his time in the Bush White House, when The U.S. practice of drowning its...

I can not recommend too highly watching reruns of yesterdays marathon hearing. Why should I have tortured myself so just for the accolades you'll bestow on me were I to bend to your request. There is also available to you Kvanaugh's paper in the Minnesota Law Review, where he strikes a...

You're such an eager correspondent that you rattled off a rejoinder before I had a chance to correct my injudicious word choice. Please read my post as it now stands, not as it stood. You should know however that the most observant of us do have some knowledge of what is contained in the...

When I used the carefully chosen word, "TOADY" to describe the chubbaly winsome Mr. Kavanaugh, this is precisely the kind of groveling non-utterances I had in mind. Of course the President can't pardon himself! Yet apparently there is no level too low for the subterranean, invertebrate Mr...

Many, if not nearly all of Kavanaugh's most absurd, and "endearing" opinions, a la manière de Rudy Giuliani, are most likely to have come while working in his ultra sycophantic role as a former White House step-and-fetch-it. These are the very records most interesting to the public; yet these...

Probably the only way the Democrats would even have a chance to stop Kavanaugh from being confirmed would be to flood the media with quotes from Kavanaugh's craziest opinions and writing. He has expressed extreme viewpoints on constitutional law that would leave even a few neo-liberals...

I liked your picture of Trump making the asshole sign. His version of "V for Victory"?

Just as I thought. Come back when you have. Quiggin,J., "Zombie Economics," Princeton University Press, 2010, 238 Pgs. 14 bucks at Amazon, 10 bucks Kindle edition.

All economic fads are "anchored" by models. In fact the entire discipline of "economics" is "anchored" by models. What would you expect? Anchored by tea leaves maybe. It is what happens when you apply the theory that matters. His book is loaded with data from actual application!!! I am not...

Possibly the best place to go for a thorough analysis and well documented discussion of "supply-side economics" is to Australian Economist John Quiggin's book, "Zombie Economics." Though it is written for economists and has been assigned reading in graduate economics study, it is so well...

No doubt that for a clinical Narcissist, such as D.J. Trump, the thought that he can never have a memorial service like that of McCains must be more than he can bear. He may strike back with a barrage of vicious tweets which only make him look smaller in the eyes of more mentally balanced...

There can be no question that "trickle down" supply-side economics does not deliver on its promises. It has been thoroughly discredited and yet the Republicans just can not let go of it because it is so damn generous to the constituents they really serve, but not of course to the ones they...

good article. Thanks for posting. The other data posted, however, are not significantly incorrect. All the data show essentially stagnant real wages . Perhaps a little drop in 2017 that's been recovered. Basically nothing to see here, yet, either way. Certainly there is no evidence yet that...

"Real earnings" if correctly represented will take CPI into account. So this shows a small gain in real weekly earning after taking into account CPI. The second quarter CPI figure must be the annualized rate. If the real weekly earnings shown here are correctly calculated then real weekly...

From your source: The proportion of unauthorized immigrants in federal prison may be explained partly by the fact that immigration offenses now account for about half of all federal prosecutions, including those for smuggling people into the United States, illegally entering the country and...

Rivera's lawyer has denied Rivera was in the U.S. illegally. Law enforcement says he used a stolen I.D. Rivera came to the U.S. as a child. Rivera has a seventh or eighth grade education. Law enforcement said he confessed to the crime. If ever there was a case were a defendant was going to...

Immigration violations will land you in federal prison. You are too smart to fall for that stuff. I think this is closer to the statistics you intended: (From NY Times) "There were 785 total homicide convictions in Texas in 2015. Of those, native-born Americans were convicted of 709...

The very few studies I have seen have concluded that the violent crime rate among illegal aliens in the U.S, is much lower than among citizens. I am too lazy right now to search for this data, so I can't back up my wild claim, but perhaps you will be so inclined to look for it. In those rare...

from WaPo: No, one-third of African Americans don’t support Trump. Not even close. By Michael Tesler August 17 President Trump has recently faced renewed allegations of racism. Many critics have argued that Trump’s attacks on the intelligence of such prominent African Americans as LeBron...