Historical benefit of tarrifs

Interesting opinion by Pat Buchanan, showing that historically, tariffs helped the US economy.

Personally, I support implicit tariffs via Import Certificates.

Thom Hartmann recommends the economist Ha-Joon Chang's book "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism'", which shows that all current "industrial"/"developed" rich economies, including the US, did so by using tariffs to protect their "infant industries" until they become rich economies.

Alternative Energy Action Network

This site Alternative Energy Action Network covers trends in alternative energy

All job growth in 2000s in health care

This dkos diary article, references a Bus Week article, showing that in the WOAT Bush Regime since 2001, all the private sector job growth stems from 1 domestic industry, health care. *SMH*

US economy

This person Yashua has an interesting graph-based summary of the fubared US economy.

Skeleton Closet on US Presidential candidates

This site "Skeleton Closet" [||] aka Real Change shows the scandals & dirt on the US Pres candidates, in an apparently objective non-partisan manner.

Out of the remaining Obama, H Clinton, McCain, none seem to have a prohibitive amount of scandals. Obama seems to be cleaner than H Clinton, so H Clinton should drop the "Obama hasn't been vetted" nonsense talk.