Posting History for icemilkcoffee
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| I am not convinced of Troy Davis' innocence First of all, let me start by saying that I agree wholeheartedly that the DA and the police have commited practically every prosecutorial abuse possible here: biased line-up identification, ... |
icemilkcoffee | 09/22/2011 | 182 | 6 | 1 | 608 |
| The Free Market just vetoed Keystone XL I apologize for this short diary today. As oil prices drop into the $70's, Tar sand oil from Alberta, which costs more than $85 just to extract, no longer make economical sense. So even if the GOP ... |
icemilkcoffee | 11/13/2014 | 177 | 193 | 2 | - |
| Fear of China & Misplaced Anger at the TPP 1. The China Phenomenon
In defense, generals are said to be forever fighting the last war. Voters are no less prone to re-litigating yesterday’s battles. From 2000 and on, the rise of China ... |
icemilkcoffee | 07/18/2016 | 101 | 17 | - | - |
| Clinton: A Green Card with every STEM advanced degree Hillary Clinton, oft criticized for being too cautious and timid with her policy proposals, dropped a very bold one just now:
Hillary would “staple” a green card to STEM masters and PhDs from accredited institutions
Unlike everything else on... |
icemilkcoffee | 06/30/2016 | 93 | 7 | - | - |
| Groundswell of asian american opposition to affimative action If you have ties to the chinese american community here in California, you have no doubt seen a torrent of chain emails railing against SCA-5 this past 2 weeks. SCA-5 is a state constitutional ... |
icemilkcoffee | 03/08/2014 | 48 | 22 | - | - |
| Devil in the Details 3: Medicaid goes Mainstream Continuing on with my 'drill-down' study of the Senate Health Reform Bill; today we'll look at a groundbreaking change for Medicaid that seems to have received little notice. |
icemilkcoffee | 03/12/2010 | 46 | 15 | 1 | 241 |
| Border completely overrun.... or maybe not If you have been watching the news for the past week, you would have had the impression that the entire southern border has been overrun by illegal immigrant youths lured in by Obama's Dream Act ... |
icemilkcoffee | 07/11/2014 | 46 | 69 | 3 | - |
| Devil in the Details 2: AHIP took a left hook to the liver Preface: In the interest of breaking through the current 'Kill Bill' vs 'Save & Improve Bill' deadlock here on DKos- I am doing a nooks-and-cranny exploration of the HCR Bill. Hopefully ... |
icemilkcoffee | 12/22/2009 | 41 | 26 | - | 182 |
| Taking the pulse of Immigration Reform: Who should be legalized? With Health Care Reform on the home stretch, I would like to switch gear and talk about the powderkeg issue of Immigration Reform. Even within the comfortable confines of DailyKos, Immigration ... |
icemilkcoffee | 03/25/2010 | 37 | 2 | - | 27 |
| Devil in the Details: Mandate not mandatory Preface: In the interest of breaking through the current 'Kill Bill' vs 'Save & Improve Bill' deadlock here on DKos- I will do a nooks-and-cranny exploration of the HCR Bill in a series ... |
icemilkcoffee | 12/21/2009 | 28 | 24 | 3 | 542 |
| I am starting a new religious cult- wanna join? Like most of you, I've been sick to my stomach over the Mandate. How could the government force me to hand my hard earned money over to the for-profit (and lots- United Health's CEO made $54 million ... |
icemilkcoffee | 12/18/2009 | 27 | 6 | - | 60 |
| 3 Ways to make the mandate palatable At this late hour, I think we all have to face the reality that: The mandate is not going away. For reasons that Ezra Klein and others have already elucidated- if you are going to force insurers to ... |
icemilkcoffee | 12/16/2009 | 20 | 2 | - | 32 |
| Cram Session: Cliff Notes on the House Reconciliation This is a late night cram session on the House Reconciliation Act. So curl up on the couch and join the study group:
Full text:
http://docs.house.gov/rules/hr4872/111_hr4872_amndsub.pdf
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icemilkcoffee | 03/19/2010 | 19 | 8 | - | 38 |
| Good news: Total Bailout costs only $87 Billion Here is some good news to start your weekend on. Timothy Geithner just announced that the total costs of the bailouts are projected to be only $87 billion. |
icemilkcoffee | 04/23/2010 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 37 |
| The Prophet Mohammed and ground beef Here in the land of the free, you can blaspheme god and man all you want, but you best watch your mouth around perishable vegetables and meats. Diane Sawyer and ABC News just got hit with a $1.2 ... |
icemilkcoffee | 09/13/2012 | 18 | 7 | - | 160 |
| Household Income Gets Back to Pre-Recession Level One of the soft spots in this recovery has been the sagging household income. Everyone from Bernie Sanders on the left, to your usual opportunists on the right, have been regularly reminding us of that. The problem with this particular metric, aside... |
icemilkcoffee | 06/02/2016 | 12 | 11 | - | - |
| Planned Parenthood's messaging fail We've all seen this movie before. In 2009 ACORN got ambushed by a sting video, and the Democratic congress panicked and gutted ACORN. Subsequent investigations ( CRS , MA Attorney General , |
icemilkcoffee | 05/31/2012 | 10 | 6 | - | 133 |
| Trump not much good with the ladies neither Donald Trump fashions himself as the ultimate player/ Lady’s man. But when you listen to his candid chats with Howard Stern, Trump comes off as a creep, not a stud. The type of man who nurses high school rejections into a lifelong hatred of womankind. ... |
icemilkcoffee | 10/11/2016 | 8 | 13 | - | - |
| The limits of Identity Politics This post-mortem does not involve any kind of ‘I Told You So’. But I am going to be very critical- so be forewarned. We Dems have bought into this ‘demographics is destiny’ mindset, and built an entire campaign around pandering to every non-white (or... |
icemilkcoffee | 11/09/2016 | 8 | 4 | - | - |
| Every American should watch this short video This is a must watch: Jack Ma summarizes the the American predicament and US-China trade in under 3 minutes (3:54 to 7:15). Succinct and pointed : |
icemilkcoffee | 03/04/2019 | 7 | 9 | - | - |
| So I caused the drop in the Labor Force Participation In recent years there has been a lot of hand wringing over the drop in Labor Force Participation Rate , which has fallen from a peak of 67.3% back in 2000, down to 62.6% now. Civilian Labor Force ... |
icemilkcoffee | 09/21/2015 | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| Trump's eminently sensible tax proposal Trump bravely bucked conservative ideology and put out an eminently sensible tax policy proposal. Not the one he just fleshed out yesterday of course. That rehash of Hooverism is projected to ... |
icemilkcoffee | 09/16/2016 | 5 | 4 | - | - |
| Obama: not a chump The recent high profile and increasingly suspicious collapse of Solyndra has left the Obama Administration looking like a bunch of ... |
icemilkcoffee | 09/21/2011 | 1 | 4 | - | 82 |