DREAM act – phase I

Link. Children who are now adults. “President Barack Obama’s administration announced Friday that it would stop deporting younger illegal immigrants and would begin granting them work permits.”

Winger austerian Feb 2012 prediction

Link. Europe to do fine, US to have inflationary depression …

“… the current combination of monetary and fiscal stimulus is driving us toward disaster. Instead of a real recovery, the US will experience an inflationary depression. Europe, on the other hand, will suffer much less, precisely because it was not seduced by the short-term appeal of stimulus.”

Krugman called him on it.

Shuanggui: China invented everything (NYT)

Link. America’s outsourced torture programs are but a pale version of Shuanggui …

“Shuanggui (pronounced shwang-gwei) is rooted in the ancient imperial justice system and was used by the Red Army to punish wayward soldiers during the civil war. The term is often translated as “double regulation,” a reference to a pair of rules that require party members accused of wrongdoing to appear at a specific time and place for questioning. Over the past decade, it has become increasingly institutionalized through party-issued guidelines that have scaled back some of its excesses…

… A number of Chinese legal scholars say the system is not unlike the overseas renditions and detentions that the United States uses in its battle against terrorism. Though he finds the coerced confessions disturbing, He Jiahong, faculty director of the Renmin University Law School in Beijing, said shuanggui, by operating apart from local courts that are easily manipulated by party officials who control their funds, was a vital tool for fighting corruption…

… I have heard that all corrupt officials who are summoned to the investigation facility have their contemptuous behavior exposed,” Mr. Chu wrote. “Do not be invited here. If you come here, your days will seem like years.”

Popular with legal scholars and the commoners.

Maybe this is what America’s Romney-donating billionaires are really afraid of?