Short Stuff from the Traveling Ph.D.
Too long for Twitter; too short for my blog.
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Photo reblogged from Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr
This is what the new gerrymandered Ohio district centered on Columbus looks like. It’s a beaut.
Unlike Luis Gutierrez’ famous “earmuffs” district in Chicago, this district wasn’t drawn as a majority-minority district for Voting Rights Act compliance. (The VRA requires the creation of majority-minority districts.) It was drawn purely as a Democratic vote sink.
This is a great early example of what the GOP is going to be able to do now that the party has unprecedented control over redistricting in the wake of massive state-level victories in the 2010 elections. For more, check out this story.
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Link reblogged from Robert Reich
Standard & Poor’s downgrade of America’s debt couldn’t come at a worse time. The result is likely to be higher borrowing costs for the government at all levels, and higher interest on your variable-rate mortgage, your auto loan, your credit card loans, and every other penny you borrow.
Why…
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File under: Seriously? WTF were they thinking?
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Photo reblogged from Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr
Who holds the debt, and who accumulated it? The answer may surprise you… or it may not.
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Photo reblogged from Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr
Why Americans want smaller government: they have no idea what the government is doing for them.
