Koch Brothers’ reboot of their political funding machine has big consequences for GOP
The Koch brothers’ political network spent hundreds of millions to win the White House and the Senate — and came Continue reading
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Archive for: February 20, 2013
Mass Incarceration and the New Jim Crow
In the latest installment of his excellent New York Times series, Time and Punishment, John Tierney writes that mass incarceration Continue reading
Biofuel rush wiping out America’s grasslands at fastest pace since the 1930s
America’s prairies are shrinking. Spurred on by the rush for biofuels, farmers are digging up grasslands in the northern Plains to Continue reading
Expiration of 2010 Payroll Tax Cut hits Walmart
Last week, Bloomberg News reported that Walmart’s sales in the first days of February were abysmal. In internal e-mails that Continue reading
Graph of the day: The incredible shrinking Medicare budget
The Center for Budget Policies and Priorities had charted a Medicare spending forecast made in 2010 and another three years Continue reading
The Secular Jurist 