Tag Archives: political hardball

Obama’s deficit reduction plan not as shitty as thinking Americans feared

By Mark | September 19, 2011

As promised, Barack Obama unveiled his administration’s new deficit reduction plan this afternoon, in the White House rose garden. [Those who want the facts can find an outline of the plan on the White House website. A PDF of the entire proposal can be found there as well.] From what I can tell, it marks […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged budget cuts, Buffett Rule, Bush tax cuts, Chuck Schumer, class warfare, deficit, deficit reduction, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, grand bargain, job creation, John Boehner, John Fleming, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, math, Medicaid, Medicare, Mitch McConnell, Obama, Paul Ryan, tax loopholes, tax the rich, theology of tax cuts, veto | 30 Comments

Prostitution politics in Russia

By Mark | April 28, 2010

It’s hard to know what will appeal to me from night to night. Sometimes I feel like writing about local politics, and sometimes I see a relatively small item that sends me spinning off on a tangent. Tonight, it’s an article about a Russian woman named Ekaterina Gerasimova that has me clicking around the web. […]

Posted in Media, Politics | Also tagged Ashley Alexandra Dupré, Ashley Dupré, Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro, celebrity prostitutes, Ekaterina Gerasimova, Eliot Spitzer, hidden camera, honeytrap, Katya, Kremlin, prostitution, Putin, reality television, Rupert Murdoch, Russia, the political use of prostitutes, Viktor Shenderovich | 6 Comments

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