http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:06:52 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:06:52 As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, I thought it would be a good time to talk about WHY that wall fell. I am sick of listening to right wingers claim that Ronald Reagan defeated communism and liberated Eastern Europe. It just didn't happen that way.
Here's an essay... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/38 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:18:04 For centuries, nervous investors have turned to gold for investment security during uncertain economic times. When the economy gets weak, the price of gold rises. In the late 1970's we watched gold peak in the $700+ per ounce range. That number eventually ebbed to roughly the $300 per ounce range wh... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/37 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:17:01 For every job "taken" by an illegal Mexican immigrant in the Southwestern U.S., how many manufacturing jobs have been lost from my Great Lakes region due to the transfer of American manufacturing to China? Ten times as many? One hundred times as many?

At least the Mexican immigrants count their w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/36 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:58:02 With economic indicators showing our nation sliding into recession for the last year or so, I was surprised to hear the
recent talk of an "economic stimulus package" to help ease the strain of the recession, which most people feel has
already arrived. I was even pleased to hear that the Republi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/35 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:10:48 Name 10 things the new Democratic Congress should do:

We've heard our new Congressional leaders mention a few items that they plan to address in the "first 100 hours" after we take charge. They've mentioned raising the minimum wage, implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, and all... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/34 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:05:28 "Windquest" the yacht owned by billionaire Doug DeVos, brother of fellow billionaire and Michigan Republican Gubernatorial candidate, Dick DeVos has now fallen to third place in the annual Port Huron to Mackinac Island race due to the correction factor used to adjust for the size of the yachts. Beca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/32 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:57:11 Recent history has shown that Michigan has a predictable pattern during national economic recessions. One predictable truth is that when the nation gets an economic "cold", Michigan gets the "flu". i.e. moderate national recessions hit Michigan hard. Such was the case in the late 1970's and early 19... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/33 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:02:16 Bash them by saying that they are just like Bush. Bash them for all the stupid things they do. But whatever you do, be sure to bash the Republicans in both houses of Congress. We should all be concentrating on retaking one, or both houses of Congress THIS YEAR. Congress is up for re-election this ye... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/31 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:40:46 After all, Hastert only got the job as Speaker of the House, because the Republicans didn't want the American public to know that they were actually electing Tom DeLay as their leader. Hastert was meant to be the figure-head, while DeLay would actually control the House Republican agenda. Hastert wa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/30 Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:32:55 For those of you that love South Park. For those of you that read banned books. For those of you that think Scientology is a cult. For those of you that want to see Tom Cruise and R. Kelly get SKEWERED. Watch the controversial episode in it's entirety here:

http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/03/sout... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/1 Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:15:27 Thanks to George W. Bush and his handlers, we are right in the middle of the biggest money grab in world history. The rich and powerful are working full time to line their pockets with our money, before the window of the Bush Presidency closes. George W. Bush is literally holding open our front door... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/8 Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:03:50 Since personal retirement accounts come in the form of 401K plans for most Americans, the terrible performance of the stock market during the Bush Presidency has prevented America's retirement savings accounts from growing as a result of investment returns, during the last five years. Only continuin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/9 Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:16:35 With elections just around the corner, the GOP has had to grasp an "issue" that they think will help divide America, and thus open a door for them to win elections. That issue is the illegal Mexican immigrants that are "stealing American jobs".

The right-wingers have decided that we are being in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/10 Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:53:25 GOP Congressional bribery scandal grows:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-29-cunningham-case_x.htm


The bribery scandal that caused Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham R-CA to resign in disgrace last week threatens to ensnare more high profile Republican legislators accordin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/2 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:14:57 John Eisenhower, son of the late President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, wrote a letter to the editor of the Manchester, NH Union-Leader last year about two months prior to the Presidential election, explaining why he was going to vote for John Kerry.

http://www.theunionleader.com/Articles_show.html?ar... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/7 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:06:02 Here's the monthly Dow Jones closing averages during the Bill Clinton Presidency:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EDJI&a=00&b=20&c=1993&d=00&e=20&f=2001&g=m

Note that the DJIA rose steadily during the Clinton Presidency from 3300 in Jan 1993, to 11,500 by December 1999, before settling back ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/11 Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:01:48
http://www.detnews.com/2005/specialreport/0510/16/A14-349721.htm

The Republicans are crying that Michigan should be building new highways in their Republican districts, because failure to do so "deprives Michigan of development" and because it would "spark a faster (economic) turnaround".
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/22 Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:08:59 I ask, because for years I've listened to the right wingers in the NRA tell me that they make up some sort of "civilian militia", simply by virtue of being armed, and that they ramain prepared to defend America against all enemies.
They tell me that the second amendment's reference to "a well r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/15 Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:07:15 I had to register with the LA Times to read the article. It may be available on another source. The AP article appeared this weekend, and was written by Suzanne Gamboa.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-congress-veterans,1,5483674.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/20 Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:22:42 http://www.detnews.com/2005/business/0507/08/D01-241291.htm

For years we've listened to right wingers rant about "trial lawyers" and the skyrocketing cost of medical malpractice insurance that the lawyers' "frivolous lawsuits" cause. The conservatives have tried to whip up a frenzied mob that wil... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/18 Fri, 08 Jul 2005 23:19:14 http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20050630/cardependability30.art.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20050630/b_power_lists30.art.htm

For years, American automakers have been slowly losing market share to foreign, mostly Japanese, imports. The declining market share is d... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/12 Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:03:00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/102173-2.htm

Here's another sad story from the history of the Republican party, that they don't want you to know. Unfortunately for them, I'm going to tell it. Please be sure to repeat this story often so that people won't ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/19 Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:05:27 All of us have watched the price of gasoline climb from about $1.25 to about $2.50 in the last couple of years. At the same time, we've watched crude oil go from about $25 to about $55 per barrel.

President Bush's pollsters have explained to him that we are "concerned" with this issue, so he has... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/14 Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:36:07 No Democratic President would EVER send you off to war without providing the proper armor for vehicles
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/08/rumsfeld.questioner.ap/
No Democratic President would EVER send you off to war without the proper body armor http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,101061,00.html... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/21 Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:14:08 It's a gun discussion forum that I found on the internet, that is dominated by the right wing nuts of the NRA. Serious discussion of gun rights, and the position of the Democratic party with regard to gun ownership are nearly IMPOSSIBLE in this forum, and it's gotten worse since the NRA's big vict... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Lefty48197/26 Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:26:26