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June 27, 2010
Clementine Churchill to Her Husband: June 27, 1940
Clementine Churchill:
My Darling,
I hope you will forgive me if I tell you something I reel you ought to know.
One of hte men in your entourage (a devoted friend) has been to me and told me that there is a danger of your being generally disliked by your colleagues and subordinates because of your rough sarcastic and overbearing manner -- It seems your Private Secretaries have agreed to behave like school boys and 'take what's coming to them and then escape otu of your...
June 26, 2010
Economic Recovery, Not Social Security Cuts
David Dayen:
America Speaks in LA – They Want Economic Recovery, No Social Security Cuts: The America Speaks meetings held in 19 cities across the country today, funded... by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, were a study in how subtle messaging and deficit hyping can mold and shape opinions that move the public toward right-wing solutions.... Despite an insistence of neutrality, organizers of this series of town hall meetings allowed their agenda to show through, particularly in their...
Note to Self: The Long-Run Fiscal Deficit, the PPACA, the ARRA, and Other Stimulus Initiatives...
i am going to have to rerun all the underlying analyses next Wednesday, after the CBO issues its new Long-Trm Budget Outlook. But if the CBO's numbers then are consistent with their analyse last fall of the PPACA, then...
The U.S. has a current-law projected primary federal fiscal deficit over the next 75 years of 3% of GDP, according to the CBO's current-law baseline.
The U.S. has a projected primary federal fiscal deficit over the next 75 years of 6% of GDP according to the CBO's...
links for 2010-06-26
From hard to soft industrial policies in developing countries | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
Palinpalooza: Live Mic Left On, Reporters Call Palin "Dumb" | Video Cafe
Whiskey Fire: My world in circles
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Looking for Someone with the Year-by-Year Numbers of the CBO ACA Score for Its Second Decade at the Almirall-Hausman Wedding
Why the Washington Post Is Not a Trusted Curator...
Because those who write for it who tell me where they are coming from aren't coming from reality, and the rest won't tell me where they are coming from--so I cannot trust them.
Mstthew Yglesias:
What Is Hidden and What Is Revealed: Something that pops up every time old/new media tensions emerge is the view—which I find, frankly, bizarre—common in the newspaper world that pretending to not have opinions makes your work better... the ideal reporter would be someone who actually doesn’t...
Jeffrey Goldberg on Toilet Training vs. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jeffrey Goldberg:
An Unhappy Day At The Washington Post: The sad truth is that the Washington Post, in its general desperation for page views, now hires people who came up in journalism without much adult supervision, and without the proper amount of toilet-training. This little episode today is proof of this. But it is also proof that some people at the Post (where I worked, briefly, 20 years ago) still know the difference between acceptable behavior and unacceptable behavior, and that...
Liveblogging World War II: June 26, 1940: Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Wapedia - Wiki: Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina:
On June 26, 1940, at 22:00, Soviet People's Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov presented an ultimatum note to Gheorghe Davidescu, Romanian ambassador to Moscow, in which the Soviet Union demanded the evacuation of the Romanian military and administration from Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina, with an implied threat of invasion in the event of non-compliance. The Soviets stressed their sense of urgency:
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