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• I See Friedmans "Yikes" and Raise

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 632
  By Steve Hynd Tom Friedman, when he shucks his schtick that every brown person is just a child who needs American leadership, can actually state the bleeding obvious pretty well . The president’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said flatly: “This can’t be nation-building.” And the president told a columnists’ ...
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• Afghan National Army

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 632
  Commentary By Ron Beasley The Plan A in Afghanistan is to train the Afghan National Army to defend themselves so we can leave.  There is no Plan B.  As we have said here before Afghanistan is not a nation but a collection of tribes so can you have a national army without a nation?  This via Digby : As you can ...
  2 days ago

• Taxes and Inequality

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 632
  By Dave Anderson: Felix Salmon raises an interesting point about incentives and government revenue. Progressive taxation, he argues, may lead to increased inequality. This is intriguing, contrarian, but seems to be wrong once we look at data and history, at least in the United States. Remember too that when ...
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• Tyrese (Gibson) lays out his vision for "making smart sexy" at 5MK Los Angeles launch

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 139
    Tyrese does an incredible job here, laying out a passionate and articulate vision for why kids need to "make (being) smart sexy" and a priority in their lives.  5MK (5 MILLION KIDS) is a national initiative, with the first leg launched on-the-ground in partnership with LAUSD and LAUSD Superintendent Ramon ...
  4 days ago

• Operation HOPE Founder and Council Vice Chairman John Hope Bryant Issues Public Statement Following Meeting of the U.S. Presidents Advisory Council on Financial Literacy

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 139
  WASHINGTON - (BUSINESS WIRE) - John Hope Bryant, Operation HOPE founder, chairman and chief executive officer, issues the following statement: "I commend President Barack Obama, Treasury Secretary Geithner, the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Financial Education, and the Obama Administration for calling a ...
  4 days ago

• Punching the hippies quote of the day

  
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  By Dave Anderson: From Jonathan Schwartz: This is from the recent HBO documentary about Barack Obamascampaign. Watching it now made me angry all over again on behalf onpeople who believed in him, worked on his campaign and spent a bigchunk of their lives getting him elected. You can say they were incredibly naive ...
  5 days ago

• Operation HOPE Founder and Council Vice Chairman John Hope Bryant Issues Public Statement Following Meeting of the U.S. Presidents Advisory Council on Financial Literacy

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 139
  WASHINGTON--John Hope Bryant, Operation HOPE founder, chairman and chief executive officer, issues the following statement: “I commend President Barack Obama, Treasury Secretary Geithner, Council Chairman and friend Charles Schwab, the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Financial Education, and the Obama ...
  5 days ago

• Stating the obvious (gambling edition)

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 632
  By Dave Anderson: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is trying to put on a happy face to the regions gambling revenue declines.  There are gains, month over month, as long as one neglects to mention the G-20s effective closure of the Pittsburgh casino, or admit that some months have more days than other months, and ...
  1 week ago

• Distribution and "Good Policy"

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 632
  By Dave Anderson: Brad DeLong asks why good long-term macro policy is not politically popular. I think the answer is one of the distribution of visible and discrete benefits versus the visible and discrete costs. He asserts the following: From the day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the policies ...
  1 week ago

• John Hope Bryant with IRS Deputy Commissioner Mark Ernst in Washington, D.C.

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 139
   Earlier this month I was honored to have time to drop by to see an old and dear friend, now a dedicated and essential public servant for President Barack Obama and our great nation, the Honorable ark Ernst, now the deputy commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C.  Deputy ...
  1 week ago

• Lack of Change = Lack of Enthusiasm

  
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  Commentary By Ron Beasley As Dave noted the other day Self-preservation is not a Democratic instinct .  In the comments section of that post I wrote the following: People voted for the Democrats and Obama for change and they havegotten damn little of it. The danger in 2010 is that millions willsimply stay home ...
  1 week ago

• John Hope Bryant speaking on 5MK at 5MK Los Angeles launch

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 139
    I was honored to stand with 5MK national co-chairs and icons Quincy Jones and Ambassador Andrew Young, 5MK Digital Chair QD3 (Quincy D. Jones III), 5MK leadership including California State Superintendent of Education Jack OConnell, LAUSD School Superintendent Ramon Cortines, 5MK Ambassadors Tyrese, Jeff Johnson, ...
  1 week ago

• The absurdity of "responsibilty"

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 632
  By Dave Anderson: In a non-cooperative, multi-iteration game, the best strategy to ensure cooperation or at least non-douchebag behavior is tit for tat.  This means make a choice that punishes the opposition for being a douchebag when they previously made a choice to be douchebags, and make a choice that rewards ...
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• The Anti-torture canaries are dying

  
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  By Dave Anderson: The Obama Administration pinched several excellent bloggers for mid-level staff positions earlier this year. I approved of those decisions as I had read Phil Carter and the Balkinization crew for years and I trusted both their judgment and their integrity, especially on the matter of realigning our ...
  1 week ago

• The Cost of dying II

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 632
  Commentary By Ron Beasley In response to 60 Minutes The Cost Of Dying one of my few conservative friends Rick Moran has a very good post .  Rick is not afflicted with religion which is probably why he can make educated moral decisions. Now for the moral questions raised by the piece; How much do we, asa ...
  1 week ago

• Special to the Huffington Post: Why You Give, Good Selfishness

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 139
      Special by John Hope Bryant to the Huffington Post   "Good selfishness is where I benefit but you benefit more. Raising your children, and working your passion, are good examples of good selfishness. Bad selfishness on the other hand is where I benefit but everyone else pays a price for it. Drug ...
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• 34,000 Troops and the Wuss Factor

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 632
  By Steve Hynd McClatchy has the scoop - President Obama will announce on Dec 1 that he will order 34,000 additional troops sent to Afghanistan. As it now stands, the plan calls for the deployment over a nine-month period beginning in March of three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, ...
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• The Health Care Fiasco

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 632
  Commentary By Ron Beasley The headline reads: Reid pulls together Senate Dems to take huge step on health reform Although the Senate’s action was a mere procedural vote, it representedthe end of weeks of anxiety for Reid while foreshadowing difficultlegislative and political battles ahead. Applause from ...
  2 weeks ago

• So, Its Back To "Bomb Iran" Then

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 632
  By Steve Hynd Last December I wrote : "it is already an accepted fact among the Very Serious Person set that Obamas idea of negotiation without preconditions will get exactly one shot, will fail, and then the bombs will begin to fall." Well, that looks to be the way events are turning. Despite Iran not having ...
  2 weeks ago

• John Hope Bryant and Love Leadership on CNN Radio

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 139
  JHB on CNN Radio This is a provocative, interactive interview with me and a Conservative (yet very reasonable) talk show host on CNN Radio out of Dallas, Texas.  We spoke extensively about the principles of my new book LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World , as well as the economic policies ...
  2 weeks ago

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