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Jeremy Bloom wrote a new diary post: Zombie Food Safety Act Resurrected by Senate
(From Red Green & Blue ) Industry must really want the Food Safety Modernization Act (S 510). It was dead, dead, dead – the clock had run out, and considering the gridlock in Washington, the fact that Jim DeMint (R-SC) had promised he would block most everything the Democrats brought up, and Tom Colburn (R-OK) had promised he would personally fillibuster [...]
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Jeremy Bloom wrote a new diary post: Off the Rails: GOP Misreading Ayn Rand in Blocking Railroads
(Originally appeared at RedGreenAndBlue) The teapartiers who swept into power last week may have missed a major point in their reading of Ayn Rand. In her seminal work, “Atlas Shrugged”, Rand has railroad magnates as her heroes, and it is a symptom of America’s decadence that the railroad network is allowed to fall into disrepair. Now, [...]
