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I'm David, I'm 19, and I'm a socialist from the Milwaukee area in Wisconsin. I'm pretty much obsessed with music, politics and math. This is a personal blog, however, it does have a strong political agenda.

theredhammerandsickle asked: Is this the first time your brother posted something like that? P.S. I'm happy for him

Yup it is. He’s a social conservative, and doesn’t know a whole lot about economics. Whenever I’ve tried mentioning politics to him in the past, he’s avoided it saying “it’s stupid.” So I always thought he’d turn out like my parents. But this is a good sign.

theatlantic: The Spring of 2012 Is the Hottest in U.S. History In case, you know, you haven’t been outside in the past three month, it’s about to become official: unless a freak blizzard blankets the country by Thursday, the spring of 2012 will go down as the warmest for the U.S. in 117 years of record-keeping. The National Climatic Data Center won’t release a report on the temperatures in May until sometime in June, but based on their assessment of March and April, University of Maryland professor Steve Scolnik, who blogs at Climate Capital, says that our warm May will smash the 102-year-old record. Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Dino Grandoni]

theatlantic:

The Spring of 2012 Is the Hottest in U.S. History

In case, you know, you haven’t been outside in the past three month, it’s about to become official: unless a freak blizzard blankets the country by Thursday, the spring of 2012 will go down as the warmest for the U.S. in 117 years of record-keeping. The National Climatic Data Center won’t release a report on the temperatures in May until sometime in June, but based on their assessment of March and April, University of Maryland professor Steve Scolnik, who blogs at Climate Capital, says that our warm May will smash the 102-year-old record.

Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Dino Grandoni]

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Scott Walker's Recall Hypocrisy | The Nation

justinspoliticalcorner:

Last Friday night’s Wisconsin recall election debate began a series of bizarre exchanges between Republican Governor Scott Walker and his Democratic challenger, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, over Walker’s attitudes regarding direct democracy.

During this campaign, Walker and his supporters have been harshly critical of those who have sought to recall and remove the governor and his political allies. Though the Wisconsin Constitution is absolutely clear that the reasons for recall elections are to be defined by those who seek them—as opposed to the politicians who would like to restrict the scheduling of accountability votes—the Walker camp has claimed that the recall is an expensive and unnecessary political gambit.

Barrett challenged this spin with a suggestion that Walker is a recall hypocrite.

Referring to Walker during the debate, Barrett said: “He has signed recall petitions, it’s my understanding, against Senator Feingold, against Senator Kohl, not for criminal misbehavior, but because he disagreed with political decisions that were made.”

Walker did not respond immediately. But the next day the governor said, “I have no memory” of signing on for the recall of the Democratic senators when they were targeted in 1997 by anti-abortion groups.

But there is no question that Scott Walker has spoken enthusiastically about the use of the recall power. Indeed, he attained his previous position as Milwaukee county executive in large part because of a recall initiative. And that initiative clearly delighted him.

Back when he was a state legislator, Walker was an enthusiastic proponent of recall elections—especially in Milwaukee County.

Walker got even more enthusiastic about recalls in 2002, when he became the favored candidate of the group seeking to remove Milwaukee County Executive Tom Ament. After Ament resigned, Walker was elected to replace him.

h/t: John Nichols at The Nation

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Pretty bored.

Being as sick as I am, I’m basically confined to my house. Blah. Anyone alive out there?

campaignmoney: reuterspolitics: Most Americans think campaign money aids rich Most Americans, no matter what their political party, believe there is too much money in politics and reject the idea that people should be allowed to spend what they want, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed. Seventy-five percent of Americans feel there is too much money in politics, and only 25 percent feel there is an intrinsic right to unfettered election spending, an argument commonly used by opponents of controls on campaign finance. Almost the same proportion - 76 percent - feel that the amount of money in elections has given rich people more influence than other Americans, the online survey found. Photo credit: A Barack Obama supporter holds a fake bill with Obama’s face at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, October 19, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Young This isn’t surprising at all to us, of course, and it mirrors polling we released earlier this month.

campaignmoney:

reuterspolitics:

Most Americans think campaign money aids rich

Most Americans, no matter what their political party, believe there is too much money in politics and reject the idea that people should be allowed to spend what they want, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed.

Seventy-five percent of Americans feel there is too much money in politics, and only 25 percent feel there is an intrinsic right to unfettered election spending, an argument commonly used by opponents of controls on campaign finance.

Almost the same proportion - 76 percent - feel that the amount of money in elections has given rich people more influence than other Americans, the online survey found.

Photo credit: A Barack Obama supporter holds a fake bill with Obama’s face at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, October 19, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Young

This isn’t surprising at all to us, of course, and it mirrors polling we released earlier this month.

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