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Bachmann Fails Economics 101: ?A Dollar In 2011 Should Be The Same As A Dollar In 1911?

ThinkProgress filed this report from Rock Hill, South Carolina. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) officially kicked off her presidential campaign this week with a three-state tour through Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Her South Carolina swing culminated in a town hall event Wednesday evening at Winthrop University in Rock Hill. A thousand people came out [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/07/01/259149/bachmann-fails-economics-gold-dollar-1911/

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Midday open thread

From Elon James White at TWiB:
And in TWiSOBAD (This week in Speaking of Being a Dick), check out what TPM calls "Halperin's finest 3 minutes."
This is just shocking: Twitter is ruining the ability of the White House press corps to report on scoops?you know, like deep thoughts from Sarah Palin's Facebook page.
Suck on it, jackass:
After serving a prison sentence for disobeying deployment orders on the grounds that President Obama's standing as commander-in-chief was invalid because he couldn't prove his citizenship, Army Lt. Col. Terry Lakin is hoping to retain some of the retirement benefits he lost by falling a couple of years short of the 20-year milestone.
With the passage of the same-sex marriage law in New York last week, the homophobic bigots at The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) are threatening to spend millions to oust the four Republican state senators who voted for the measure. One of them, Sen. Mark Grisanti, says bring it on:
It was not going to be a political vote. It was a vote of my conscience and it was a vote basically, definitely of fairness, and a balance that personified what I stated on the floor, that same sex couples should have the same right that I enjoy with my wife that I love. The other side of it is that the religious organizations, the non-profits and the benevolent organizations, they?re all protected.
Sorry, Sarah, you're going to have to stick to shooting wolves from helicopters:
... in 2008, media mega-star Sarah Palin was still the governor of Alaska. Fearing that protecting the polar bear would ?cripple oil and gas development? off Alaska?s coasts, Palin ? a well-worn climate science denier ? sued the government to remove the species from the list. Palin pointed to the high population of polar bears in 2008 and dismissed climate models that predict continued loss of sea ice as ?unreliable,? ?uncertain,? and ?unproven.?
But U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan backed the government scientists? finding this week ?that global warming is threatening the survival of the polar bear.? In a 116-page opinion, Sullivan dismissed Palin and hunting groups? arguments as ?nothing more than competing views about policy and science? and ruled on the side of science.
Fairness and the law?go figure:
Today the U.S. Sentencing Commission unanimously voted to retroactively apply the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, enabling 12,000 prisoners who were convicted under a previous law that applied harsh sentences to minor crack offenders to be released.
Soon the fish will be providing their own containers before adding "Fillet-O" to their name:
Southern California researchers found plastic in nearly 1 in 10 small fish collected in the Pacific Ocean in the latest study to call attention to floating marine debris entering the food chain.
The study published this week by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego estimated that fish in the middle depths of the northern Pacific Ocean are ingesting as much as 24,000 tons of plastic each year.

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/aO-FdYCCHdA/-Midday-open-thread

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Anthony prosecution continues rebuttal

Dr. Michael Warren testified that cutting open skull is not basic procedure for forensic anthropologists

Source: http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsMain/~3/LslzsX69KUU/8301-504083_162-20076197-504083.html

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Traditional media coverage of health reform law challenges: Fail

Since February, Steve Benen has been keeping track of how the traditional media covers challenges to the Affordable Care Act. And what a shock, he's found that there's a lot more coverage of the opinions ruling against the administration than for it.

He's back today, reviewing coverage of yesterday's significant ruling by the Sixth Circuit upholding the constitutionality of the law. So how did the fourth estate do on this one?

Yesterday?s ruling was the most important to date ? it was the first ruling from a federal appeals court bench ? and even had the added hook of having Republican-appointed judges siding with the Obama administration. Surely this is front-page news, right?
Wrong. Here?s the tale of the tape, putting yesterday?s coverage in the larger context of the other cases:

Washington Post
* 6th Circuit ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A5, 1053 words
* Steeh ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A2, 607 words
* Moon ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page B5, 507 words
* Hudson ruling (against the ACA): article on page A1, 1624 words
* Vinson ruling (against the ACA): article on page A1, 1176 words
* Kessler ruling (upholding the ACA): no article, zero words

New York Times
* 6th Circuit ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A15, 853 words
* Steeh ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A15, 416 words
* Moon ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A24, 335 words
* Hudson ruling (against the ACA): article on page A1, 1320 words
* Vinson ruling (against the ACA): article on page A1, 1192 words
* Kessler ruling (upholding the ACA): article on page A14, 488 words

Associated Press
* 6th Circuit ruling (upholding the ACA): one piece, 832 words
* Steeh ruling (upholding the ACA): one piece, 474 words
* Moon ruling (upholding the ACA): one piece, 375 words
* Hudson ruling (against the ACA): one piece, 915 words
* Vinson ruling (against the ACA): one piece, 1164 words
* Kessler ruling (upholding the ACA): one piece, 595 words

Politico

* 6th Circuit ruling (upholding the ACA): one piece, 940 words
* Steeh ruling (upholding the ACA): one piece, 830 words
* Moon ruling (upholding the ACA): one piece, 535 words
* Hudson ruling (against the ACA): three pieces, 2734 words
* Vinson ruling (against the ACA): four pieces, 3437 words
* Kessler ruling (upholding the ACA): one piece, 702 words

Why does this matter when the courts are moving apace and it will ultimately be decided by the judiciary, and not in the realm of public opinion? It matters because of what Greg Sargent pointed out a few months ago: "the public is being left with a highly-distorted impression of what's happening." The impression for the public is that there's something legally fishy about the law, making the law more unpopular and creating more impetus for efforts to repeal or defund it, or for states to try to block its implementation.

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/yJnf7o3gBiw/-Traditional-media-coverage-of-health-reform-law-challenges:-Fail

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EPA chief Lisa Jackson perpetually on Capitol Hill hot seat

House Republicans have been challenging EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant, in hearings aimed at cutting the agency's budget and curbing its ability to regulate greenhouse gases.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/13/AR2011031303340.html?wprss=rss_politics

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