John McCain: Loyal acolyte in the cult of deregulation

Would you like to see how John McCain's cheer-leading of deregulation of the financial services industry led to the current assault on the economy, and the siphoning off of at least $700B from the taxpayers like you and me?   Here's a good summary, by "Devilstower" of Daily Kos. It's called…

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Dangerous safety signs

In this month's Wilson Quarterly, you can read Tom Vanderbilt's delightful story about a Dutch traffic engineer  who made a town safer by making the people feel unsafe. In the last few years, however, one traffic engineer did achieve a measure of global celebrity, known, if not exactly by name, then…

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