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Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!
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Stop The Mortgage Bailout!
Frank Schaeffer: Obama Provides A Way for the Evangelicals to Redeem Themselves -- Following the Bush Disaster They Foisted on the Rest Of Us - Politics on The Huffington Post
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Parable of the broken window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Krugman on Lump of Labor Fallacy
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From Jack Welch's Screeds to George Bush's Mouth OurFuture.org
Economics focus Krugman's conundrum Economist.com
Happiness economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Consumerist: Shoppers Bite Back
Positional good - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Angry Bear: Transformation Outsourcing: An Old Hype and the New Reality
The Great Depression: The sequel
Doctors support universal health care: survey
Angry Bear: 21st century economics just starting
Angry Bear: Supply-side Silliness: Faith Based Economics Devoid of Reality
Angry Bear: Peltzman Effect

Outsourcing Economic Research Offshore

The median salary of an economist in the United States is $106,886. The median salary of an economist in India is $32,556. A great proportion of economists in India were trained in the United States. Perhaps it is time to outsource economist positions overseas. Comments?

Hillary Plays O'Reilly Like a Fiddle

See: http://www.democrats.com/hillary-plays-oreilly-like-a-fiddle

May Day Heroes!! Dockworkers Protest Iraq War!

Holy goodness!!

May 1, 2008
Dockworkers Protest Iraq War
By JOHN HOLUSHA
Thousands of dockworkers at West Coast ports stayed off the job on Thursday in what their union said was a call for an end to the war in Iraq.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union said more than 25,000 members in 29 ports stayed off the job. The action came despite an order issued Wednesday by an arbitrator directing the union to tell its members to report for work as usual in response to a request from employers.

“Longshore workers are standing down on the job and standing up for America,” Bob McEllrath, the union’s president, said in a statement. “We’re supporting the troops and telling politicians in Washington that it’s time to end the war in Iraq.”

The scene at most West Coast ports was quiet, without any scuffles or confrontations. The cranes used to unload container ships stood idle and few trucks were lined up outside gates.

Guillermo Durell, 45, a truck driver, was at the Los Angeles-area port of Long Beach. “I got up at 6 a.m. to drop a load off,” he said. “When I got here the security guard said ‘Drop this, but that’s it. We’re all leaving.’ ”

Mr. McEllrath said the walkout was not ordered by the union’s leadership, but was the result of a “democratic decision” made by the rank and file in February to demonstrate on May 1, a traditional day for labor activism.

He said employers were notified in advance of the plan, but refused to accommodate the union’s request, instead seeking the arbitrator’s ruling.

The longshore union and other labor groups are planning marches and rallies in various cities along the West Coast, and authorities in some location warned that these activities could snarl traffic during the evening commute.

Rebecca Cathcart contributed reporting from Long Beach, Calif.

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Open Letter to Geoff Garin

The reason I am for Hillary over Obama is because I remember the past 8 years of the Bush Administration, and I am not for making all sweet and nice with Republicans. PLEASE run a commercial reminding DEMOCRATS of the abuse over the past 8 years (maybe get Gore's permission to run a clip of him excoriating Bush for Abu-Ghraib...dragging this nation's name through the mud, the shame)...and then run Obama's compliments of Bush and calls for bipartisanship, how he plays right into the Republicans lines, over and over again. Take the Tina Fey moment and run with that, ride the wave of anger Dems supressed for the past 8 years. Hillary's "laugh" on Fox many months ago was genius for the CONTEMPT it displayed toward Fox News. PLEASE USE OUR COLLECTIVE ANGER AND CONTEMPT AT REPUBLICANS TO RALLY A MOVEMENT!