Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is 'Tis the War on Christmas season!
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos …
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Another barrier to Democratic down-ballot majorities: Are Democratic voters more 'bipartisan'? by Steve Singiser
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This is fascism, and we should say it clearly ... while we can, by Mark Sumner
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'At long last, have you no decency, Mr. Trump?' Rubio, Cruz and Jeb aren't brave enough to ask that, by Ian Reifowitz
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A red, white and blue zone for Muslims in America, by Jon Perr
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The hidden social costs of violent videos, by Vann R Newkirk II
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The women of Daesh, by Susan Grigsby
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Some millionaires are fighting the good fight, by Egberto Willies
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We went to Howard—not Harvard, by Denise Oliver Velez
Why minority millennials have a hard time getting ahead financially:
Recent polls indicate that a large portion of Millennials receive financial help from parents. At least 40 percent of the 1,000 Millennials (ages 18 to 34) polled in a March USA Today/Bank of America poll get help from parents on everyday expenses. A Clark University poll indicated an even higher number, with almost three-quarters of parents reporting that they provide their Millennial children with financial support. Another survey saw nearly a third of Baby Boomers paying for Millennials’ medical expenses. A quarter of Boomers subsidized “other expenses” so their Millennial offspring could save money. Black and Hispanic Americans are less likely to be the recipients of this type of support.
Ironically, even though black and Hispanic Millennials are less likely to receive financial support from parents, their parents are more likely than white parents to expect their kids to help financially support them later on.
Turkey will not apologize for downing Russian jet. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says his country was just defending itself when its F-16s shot down a Russian Suhoi SU-24:
"No Turkish prime minister or president will apologize ... because of doing our duty," Davutoglu said after a meeting Monday with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, according to the AP. "Protection of Turkish airspace, Turkish borders is a national duty, and our army did their job to protect this airspace. But if the Russian side wants to talk, and wants to prevent any future unintentional events like this, we are ready to talk."
California is a leader on climate change action, but it has a long way to go:
While the state is a global model for climate policy, however, it also produces more greenhouse gas emissions per person than almost anywhere else in the world, due partly to its heavy reliance on cars. Among the eight largest economies, California is second only to the U.S. in emissions per capita.
New book says Bush ignored South Africa’s unique information about Iraq’s lack of weapons of mass destruction:
Tony Blair went to war in Iraq despite a report by South African experts with unique knowledge of the country that showed it did not possess weapons of mass destruction, according to a book published on Sunday.
God, Spies and Lies, by South African journalist John Matisonn, describes how then president Thabo Mbeki tried in vain to convince both Blair and President George W. Bush that toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003 would be a terrible mistake.
Mbeki’s predecessor, Nelson Mandela, also tried to convince the American leader, but was left fuming that “President Bush doesn’t know how to think”.
Barry Ritholtz reminds us every year that Black Friday sale statistics are bunk. Every year the National Retail Federation asks shoppers how much they spent during the first weekend of the holiday shopping season the previous year and how much they plan to spend in the current year. Those figures are swallowed whole by the media, which presents them as a proper measure of consumer sentiment. But they aren’t:
In 2005, the year Ritholtz first aired his grievances (to a reporter at The Wall Street Journal), the NRF estimated that sales the weekend after Thanksgiving were up 22 percent, but holiday spending that season ended up increasing only 1 percent over the previous year. The most egregious instance was in 2009, when the NRF’s 43 percent estimated decrease was rendered ridiculous by the 3 percent increase revealed after an actual tally.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Another holiday marred by a mass shooting. Greg Dworkin presents the latest 2016 headlines & environmental issues polling. David Waldman rounds up holiday GunFAIL & related issues. Even after the latest attack, conservatives insist on denying there’s any such thing as anti-choice violence.
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