adamrice / #politics

https://www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/the-big-list-of-resources-about-project

Interesting front-loader design with equal size wheels and no middle head tube.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_literacy_test_louisiana.html

http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/9-9-9-in-one-really-long-graph/?

Great if your rich. Lousy if you're not.

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manager.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/the-chart-that-should-accompany-all-discussions-of-the-debt-ceiling/242484/

Bush tax cuts alone dwarf all new spending under Obama administration

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_ede5d49e-8272-11e0-a6e0-001cc4c03286.html

Aide's boss sponsoring a voter ID bill. Typical

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

Graphs showing distribution of wealth in the USA

http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who-has-money/

85% of all wealth in the USA is held by the wealthiest 20%.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/a/m/americandad/2010/03/an-open-letter-to-conservative.php?ref=mp

Heavily annotated cliff notes on problems with conservatives

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0903.galbraith.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtnE4C9Gv5U

Harrowing

http://www.godlessgeeks.com/BushNightmare.htm

A link-annotated version of the classic, prescient Onion article

http://www.nationaljournal.com/campaigns/2008/wh08/promises.htm

Will assess promises vs performance in the Obama white house

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010593.html

TNH knocks it out of the park, again

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242

About the subprime meltdown

http://billmon.dailykos.com/

Billmon is back, motherfuckers. Probably the most incisive lefty political blogger out there.

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/04/the-coming-coll.html

fascinating and depressing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0IvNydHFhQ

In the context of Obama's trouble with Wright's "god damn america" tirade, I'm noting this for the singing of "why should god bless america." At the opening of a GOP presidential debate.

http://www.kirktoons.com/busheviks/busheviks.html#

we laugh because it hurts

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/twilight.mov

Twilight zone indeed. No, this is not a joke

http://www.fuckchristmas.org/

not what you think

http://www.bigfatwhale.com/archives/bfw_230.html

funny

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007038.html#007038

"sit down and shut up"

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7203633?pageid=rs.NewsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion&rnd=1111689845570&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.104

perhaps hyperbolic, but a bracing slap in the face

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61764,00.html

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