pkarnig’s posthaven

Rejecting the advice of his departing budget director Peter Orszag, Obama has insisted that the Bush era tax cuts, which expire this year, be extended for "only" about 98 percent of Americans, but not for households making over $250,000 a year. Hard to argue with that, but watch the GOP try. The more the Republicans hold hostage this plan for tax relief for millionaires, the more voters appreciate whose side they are really on. Obama has belatedly proposed a $50 billion infrastructure program, to put Americans back to work. He should have proposed four times as much, and long ago, but it's a start.

This is finally some good news from the white house. If you support this help for the middle class, pass this along to all your followers.

The publisher of the New York Times acknowledged Wednesday that the newspaper will go out of print — eventually.

"We will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD," Arthur Sulzberger told an audience at a London media summit Wednesday.

Sulzberger's statement came in response to a prediction that the newspaper would go out-of-print by 2015.

The crazy thing is that most of the traditional (like nytimes) content providers seem to believe that charging for their online content will save the day. I disagree. I believe that a new model for content monetization will evolve through the use of advanced semantic filtering. This could also presage the end of Google's dominance in the market. Check out what we are doing at Grabbit!

Judge Raymond C. Fisher described the case as presenting “a painful conflict between human rights and national security.” But, he said, the majority had “reluctantly” concluded that the lawsuit represented “a rare case” in which the government’s need to protect state secrets trumped the plaintiffs’ need to have any day in court.

The decision bolstered an array of ways in which the Obama administration has pressed forward with broad counter-terrorism policies after taking over from the Bush team, a degree of continuity that has departed from the expectations fostered by President Obama’s campaign rhetoric, which was often sharply critical of President Bush’s approach.

The Obama administration, has demonstrated a complete reversal of what it promised during the election campaign. We are not upholding Human Rights as they are defined in the constitution. Extraordinary Rendition is bullshit for "we can do whatever it takes, including terrorist type activities like torture if we think it is necessary." Remember, we have learned that torture is not an effective interrogation technique. Hold our leaders accountable for their lies.

Anti-war campaigners and the far-right British National Party said they would stage separate protests on Wednesday at the Waterstone's branch in Piccadilly in central London over Mr Blair's decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Are the americans that paid for this war the only remaining majority in approval for the war? The reason I ask this is that....
We are still all in favor of the Afghan war.
What's up with that?