Through the last six years of rumbling global financial crisis, Japan has been an afterthought. In 2008, the world’s second-largest (soon to be third-largest) economy was still dealing with the consequences of its own banking crisis from the 1990s, its economy mired in a generation of economic stagnation and low-level but persistent deflation. If you… Read more »
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Fun Control: Joe Scarborough And Campbell Brown Are Right About Hollywood And Video Games
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and CampbellBrown.com curator Campbell Brown took turns, this week, urging President Obama to give the movie and video game industries the same treatment he’s been giving to the regulation of guns. While most liberals were predictably put off by this notion, I agree with Brown and Scarborough that the President… Read more »
Obama Budget Dismissed by Right, Left
On the campaign trail, President Obama likes to talk about his desire to “bring people together” to solve the nation’s challenges. While his chosen agenda makes that nearly impossible, a budget proposal he teased Friday does seemed to have united members in Congress. Lawmakers from both the left and the right publicly dismissed his proposal… Read more »
MSNBC’s Harris-Perry Is Right On AP’s Decision To Drop ‘Illegal Immigrant’: ‘Language Matters’
This week, the Associated Press announced that they had updated their influential AP Stylebook to remove the term “illegal immigrant.” The move was prompted, in part, by activists who argued that only actions can be “illegal,” not people. As such, the term “illegal immigration” will not be disappearing from AP stories, but you will no… Read more »