The Verge

Nice tech site with news comparable to Wired.
Very nice review section as well.

http://www.theverge.com/

Job Creators

Tom Tomorrow cracks me up. Job creators!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/05/1041572/-Class-conflict?detail=hide&via=blog_792316

Frugal Dad

Great site for financial advice and infographics on corporate malfeasance.

http://frugaldad.com/

El Mozote Massacre

I should have known about this. Perhaps I was not attentive yet to the news or it was never given airtime by our media. No wonder South and Central America want little to do with the US.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2011/1212/An-apology-30-years-in-the-making-El-Salvador-marks-El-Mozote-massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre

http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-13139-el-mozote-and-the-school-of-assassins.html

Millionaires Surtax

Heard a story on NPR this morning which The Daily Kos comments on below.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/09/1043704/-Republicans-cant-produce-a-small-business-person-who-is-hurt-by%C2%A0millionaires-surtax?detail=hide&via=blog_1

You wonder just how out of touch the Republicans are with the people. Do they just come up with campaign issues they field test which will win with voters without even seeing if their ideas have any merit at all?
How can they say a millionaire's surtax will hurt job creation without any real word examples?
The absurd just becomes more absurd.

Child Poverty Rates

"Nationally, 19.8 percent of schoolchildren qualify as poor – and one-third of all counties now have child poverty rates above that threshold."
"Unless the economy improves markedly, future data could be worse. Unless Congress acts, extended unemployment-insurance benefits will expire at the end of the year. So, too, will the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the child tax credit. These all aid low income families. Congress will also need to decide whether to extend the payroll tax cut, which gives about an extra $1,000 to each household."

The Republicans won't allow such tax credits to expire for the poor and middle class, right? They fight to protect the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so they will support extension of tax cuts for the poor and middle class, right?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/1129/Rising-child-poverty-rates-could-be-a-taste-of-what-s-ahead

Occupy Wall Street on College Campuses

Article on CSM about the spread of OWS to college campuses. Interesting walk-out at Harvard on one of professors who served in the Bush administration.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/1119/Occupy-protests-spread-to-US-college-campuses

Also, the pepper spray incident at UC davis. Riot gear for peaceful protests? I realize there are homeless people inter mingling with the protestors and many of them have issues they are dealing with. Doubt there are many if any homeless protesting with the students on college campuses. What sort of balance should the authorities provide in this case? Operate at the point of the lowest common denominator?
That appears to be what they are doing. Hope they keep it up.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/1120/UC-Davis-pepper-spray-incident-goes-viral

and another regarding the opposition to OWS. Welcome or unwelcome representatives of the one percent?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/1119/UC-Davis-pepper-spray-smear-tactics-Occupy-protests-face-rougher-response