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[TIM BLAIR BLOGGER. SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-WASHINGTON STATE-AMERICA. TODAY'S MILITARY-VETERAN NEWS, ARTS, CULTURE, BREAKING NEWS...] komo: Thousands more layoffs have been announced at commercial truck maker Paccar, billionaire Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc., nearby timber mills and at both Seattle newspapers. And the Seattle Post-Intelligencer could be closing its doors entirely if a buyer cannot be found in the next few months.

[KansasCity.com Prime Buzz - Today's political intelligence and insight] Political battle over stimulus bill has begun | KansasCity.com ...: This self-congratulatory mood is summed up by a Wall Street Journal columnist who wrote that “the House Republicans’ zero votes for the Obama presidency’s stimulus ”˜package’ is looking like the luckiest thing to happen to the G.O.P.’s political fortunes since Ronald Reagan switched parties.” There hasn’t been this much delusional giddiness in these ranks since Monica Lewinsky promised a surefire Republican sweep in the 1998 midterms.

[Care2 News Network - Newly Submitted] Op-Ed Columnist - They Sure Showed That Obama - NYTimes.com ...: is a sound-bite dispenser like the new chairman, Michael Steele, a former Maryland lieutenant governor. Steele’s argument against the stimulus package is that “in the history of mankind” no “federal, state or local” government has ever “created one job.” As it happens, among the millions of jobs created by the government are the federal investigators now pursuing Steele for alleged financial improprieties in his failed 2006 Senate campaign.

[The Atlantic Politics Channel] Straw Men - The Atlantic Politics Channel: As I said, the one concern I've got on the stimulus package in terms of the debate and listening to some of what's been said in Congress is that there seems to be a set of folks who -- I don't doubt their sincerity -- who just believe that we should do nothing. Now, if that's their opening position or their closing position in negotiations, then we're probably not going to make much progress, because I don't think that's economically sound and I don't think that's what the American people expect, is for us to stand by and do nothing.

[1: User Blogs] Frank Rich: GOP Really Showed Obama. . .Not | Drudge Retort: Perhaps the stimulus held its own because the public, in defiance of Washington's condescending assumption, was smart enough to figure out that the government can't create jobs without spending and that Bush-era Republicans have no moral authority to lecture about deficits. Some Americans may even have ancestors saved from penury by the New Deal.

[The Out-Lawyer's Blog] Jay's Anatomy of the Great Collapse of 08 - The End of Keynes?: And as a side benefit the measure temporarily insulated the US economy from the huge inflationary pressures that otherwise would have resulted from too much money chasing too few goods and services.

[Nick Clegg MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats] Nick Clegg - Speech to IPPR on Economic Recovery | Nick Clegg MP ...: That is why I believe that Gordon Brown’s decision to blow £12.5bn on a VAT cut that has been of little help to anyone was such a missed opportunity: he could have invested it instead in a massive programme to insulate every school and hospital in the country, instal smart meters in every home, and reopen old railway lines and invest in a mass insulation programme.

[Intellectual Property Watch] Intellectual Property Watch » Blog Archive » Inside Views: What To ...: Third, the new DG needs to be a person of high public standing, an individual who exemplifies a concern for public policy goals beyond technocratic discussions of IP norms and administration and the mindless reiteration of the absolute benefits of IP. We need nominees with the personal and professional credibility to convene and participate in debates on the IP system and its relevance to innovation, access to knowledge, development, trade, environment, agriculture and public health.

[A Blue View] A Blue View: Rich: The GOP Is Like A "zombie bank ... too much in ...: “This town talks to itself and whips itself into a frenzy with its own theories that are completely at odds with what the rest of America is thinking,” he says. Once the frenzy got going, it didn’t matter that most polls showed support for Obama and his economic package: “If you watched cable TV, you’d see our support was plummeting, we were in trouble.

[Easy Car Blog] Rinspeed iChange Concept for the Geneva Show - Easy Car Blog: As do all electric vehicles, the “iChange” from the Swiss design house Rinspeed relies on a powerful, but economical in-cabin heater: The electric motor simply does not generate enough waste heat to use for heating the passenger compartment. The concept car appeals because of its transformability not only with regard to its body, but also with regard to heating, and offers two attractive alternatives.

[CT Environmental Headlines blog ... All Connecticut environmental news headlines in one click] CT Environmental Headlines blog ... All Connecticut environmental ...: • Route 34 in New Haven; Green (As In Vegetation) Roofs: They're Expensive, But Environmentally Friendly -- Courant.com: "Green roofs insulate buildings in winter, cool them in summer and prevent weather damage all year." .

[Chris Boese's Weblog] Chris Boese's Weblog: Frank Rich exposes the limits of Beltway ...: Maybe this will arouse them as well to challenge Obama for stealing the Presidency itself. They surely know he is not an Article 2 “natural born citizen” (which is more than merely being a 14th Amendment “citizen”) by virtue of either Obama’s birth to a dad of Kenyan/British citizenship or birth in Kenya itself ”” as manifested by his unwillingness to supply his long form birth certificate now under seal.

[Thought Experiments : The Blog] Thought Experiments : The Blog: The Expanding Credibility Field: This leads to the idea that what should be in place are stringent certification procedures to be sure that only people licensed for their acuity of thought, get to take positions that would require such acuity of thought. If you do not have what it takes, no matter how many people or who thinks you can do the job, the (good) testing would show that you cannot, and therefore would be a danger to society in such a position, more dangerous than if a public building was being wired by an unlicensed electrician who learned his trade on the street.

[Blog entry] Progressive Breakfast: Thinking Big | OurFuture.org: The public wants specificity in terms of where the second tranche of TARP's$350 billion is going, and exactly how it will translate into more loans and more help for distressed homeowners -- and will surely demand more specificity if Geithner comes back for additional authorization. More to the point, investors (whoever they are) need lots of specificity before they're going to put up a single dollar, no matter how much of their downside risk is assumed by the government.

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