Author - Bob Cesca

Economy

Screwing the Grand Tetons

If you watched Ken Burns' documentary series last Summer, this will be especially heartbreaking: Governor Dave Freudenthal is threatening to sell off a chunk of one of America's most beautiful...

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Economy

The Fiscal Straight-Jacket

Deficit hawks! Making the tax cuts permanent for all taxpayers, regardless of income, would cost $3.1 trillion over the next 10 years and inflate the national debt to 82 percent of GDP. This would be...

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Economy

Suck It, Republicans

It turns out the government response to the recession actually helped to reduce the budget deficit compared with what it would have been had we done nothing. Via Yglesias: Of course you won't hear...

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Religion

Doy.

I don't usually single out noncombatants, but this letter to the editor regarding evolution is unbelievably idiotic. He considers evolution a science that should be taught because evolution is...

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Quote

Crazy Quote of the Day

“The Arizona immigration law is there, there’s no reason to be raising an issue of gay rights [as a wedge issue]." Rep. Peter King And there you go. A Republican admitting to deliberately attacking a...

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President Obama

A Wise Man

Robert Reich (who I hope will forgive me for pull-quoting so much of this): The Republican base is part of a conservative movement. The Democratic base, by contrast, is a loose coalition that elects...

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Terrorism

Piss Off, Wingnuts

The "ground zero mosque" story is pretty much a thing of the past at this point, but it's worth mentioning that there were Muslim prayer ceremonies INSIDE the Pentagon after 9/11. You know, the...

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