Chase is putting the screws to credit card holders by changing their terms. Chase received $25 billion in TARP funds, and has its hands out for more.

The economic crisis presents a great opportunity for new directions in economic policy, but we should not just dust off the old agendas from the past.

I’ve been watching the Senate debate on the stimulus bill and listening to one Republican after the other attack the bill for not being “bipartisan” because not enough Republicans support it. The fact that it received no Republican votes in the House, and “only” two or three Republicans support the Senate version, is sufficient to conclude that it fails Obama’s objectives of “bipartisanship.”

We’ll overlook for the moment that two years

Did Bush just get the American taxpayers to pay thousands to Laura to grow natives on her land?

Treasury Secretary Geithner has pushed back his announcement of the details of his plan to stabilize the banks to Tuesday, wishing to not throw another controversy into the middle of Congress’s debate on the stimulus.

The details of Geithner’s plan are as important as the details of the stimulus. This crisis was precipitated by problems in the financial sector and the contraction of credit makes a real recovery difficult, if not impossible.

Researching children’s issues and the stimulus bill yesterday, one thing stuck out loud and clear: economic decisions are made in the abstract, but the results fall disproportionately. Especially on kids who are already trying to survive on the margins as it is. From kids in Northern Virginia and Cincinnati and Las Vegas to all over California, hard luck stories are cropping up.

• Selling the stimulus.
• The Shrill One isn’t happy.
• But was this the best we can get?
• Just don’t tell that to the states.
• Thanks, Ben and Susan!
• Those damned automakers unions strike again.
• Revolt of the liberals?
• Coultergeist probed.
• Steele’s party line: blame the Democrats.

Always wrong, always there to be wrong again!

Concert footage from the father of Ethio-Jazz, Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics.

Saying that the device manufacturer did not inform police of the lethality of the Tasers they sold to the department, a federal judge last Thursday ordered the company to pay the lawyers of the family of a man killed by the Salinas, CA, police department to pay more than $1.4million in damages.