Again I feel remiss for not keeping up with Amy Goodman.

New $600B Fed Stimulus Fuels Fears of US Currency War

In today's Wall Street Journal, Kevin Warsh, one of the Governors of the Federal Reserve, brings back the M word to justify borrowing $75 million pro-liquid and pro-growth dollars.:

The New Malaise and How to End It

John Michael Greer

Nate Silver grades the pollsters and finds Rasmussen biased.

Well that's a relief. At Forbes Magazine, Editor-in-Chief, former Republican presidential candidate, Heritage Foundation trustee and Fox News panelist Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes, Jr. proclaims that hydraulic fracturing will not only make money but will also solve US energy woes.

Our bridges are collapsing, but the Infrastructurist notes that other countries are investing in their infrastructure, even in the face of austerity:

Britain Cuts Spending While Investing in Infrastructure

From Ezra Klein at the Washington Post:

The end of the 'do-something' Congress

Lunch Keynote on Energy and Policy: Ralph Nader.

Why stay in college? Why go to night school?
Gonna be different this time?
Can't write a letter, can't send a postcard
I can't write nothing at all

OK, say you're leading a religious flock in a city characterized by gun violence. This is what you read almost every day:

I just returned from a rally on Federal Hill Park to reelect Governor Martin O'Malley and the MD Democratic ticket. The rally was advertised to start at 3:00 PM, but I got there about 4:30 and some fellow told me that only Kratovil, Kamenetz and a few others had spoken already.

I've been reading about the coming austerity measures in the UK and Germany. Guess who loses?

Tea! I don't know what's wrong with the Tea Party!
Tea! They're conservative with a big fat C.
Why can't they be like we are? Why can't they only see?
What's the deal with the Tea Par-ty?

Everybody has a pet theory about the Tea Party. The Wall Street Journal thinks they're on to something that liberals are too effete to discern.

The Infrastructurist has a good summation of the For and Against of high-speed rail. They also have a slough of links throughout the article that I haven't reproduced here.