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links for 2010-05-20

Dana: My tax dollars! Mine!

D: "Should your tax dollars be used to pay police to remove people from private businesses solely because the proprietor doesn't like the color of their skin?"





Greg Sargent: What Rand Paul really believes

GS: "It's worth stepping back and considering the larger story here. It took a raging national media controversy to persuade the GOP Senate candidate in Kentucky to state...

Something Is Terribly Wrong in England...

FinReg Passes Senate

Tim Fernholz:

Twitter / Tim Fernholz: Senate financial reform pa ...: Senate financial reform passes 59-39 #FinReg

Rand Paul Distances Himself as Fast as He Can From Rand Paul

Rand Paul, 2002:

The Daily News ignores... the distinction between private and public property. Should it be prohibited for public, taxpayer-financed institutions such as schools to reject someone based on an individual's beliefs or attributes? Most certainly. Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed and breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not.... A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination even when...

Eric Rauchway on Barry Goldwater

Eric:

AuH2O all over again: “Conscience” features numerous dog-whistle appeals to American racists.... [H:]is vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act would speak for itself, even if Goldwater didn’t speak for it: “the Supreme Court decision is not necessarily the law of the land,” he said in 1964, and he (or Bozell) said likewise in 1960, describing Brown v. Board of Education and allied decisions as “abuses of power by the Court.” In italics, Goldwater declares that politics needs to take...

The United States Is Not Greece

The Labor Market Puts Down Its Mat and Stops Walking...

Jeffry

U.S. jobless claims climb 25,000 to 471,000: The number of people applying for unemployment benefits shot up 25,000 in the latest week to 471,000, the highest level in a month, according to the Labor Department.... A Labor Department official said there were no unusual factors to explain the

And, from Beijing, Mark Thoma emails that he made the mistake of reading the New York Times, and is going to recover his psychological equilibrium by going to view the...

I'm Betting on Steve Poizner and Chuck de Vore to Win the Republican Primaries in California...

Why? Because of Boyd's Law:

It's always a good bet that California Republicans will pick the worst possible general election candidate in any primary...

Liveblogging World War II: May 20, 1940

First camp prisoners arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau...

links for 2010-05-19

Arthur Silber: Once Upon a Time...







Bob Somerby on the Press Corps's War on Al Gore







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Matthew Yglesias on Jeffrey "Internet's Worst" Goldberg

MY: "The Duty To Do The Right Thing. Reading Jeffrey Goldberg's debate with Peter Beinart I'm struck by how frequently Goldberg deploys a tactic of...