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Manufacture Or Borrow (Until We Can't)

When things are going wrong it is often good practice to go back and review the basics, and start again. In baseball you go back to batting and fielding practice. To master a musical instrument you practice your scales every day. Things have gone wrong with our...

Fascist America: Are We There Yet?

All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist rhetoric ratcheted up, hate speech turned into intimidation and violence, and the president of the United States seized for himself...

Health Care Reform: Time to Go All In

It is time to go all in to support comprehensive health care reform. The stakes have gotten prohibitive. Republicans have essentially bet the House on it. Obama, for all intents and purposes, has wagered the White House agenda. The insurance and drug companies are...

Memo To Marc Ambinder: The Right-Wing Is Not The Middle

Marc Ambinder is spending a lot of blogging energy defending his peeps at CBS for this news report giving the right-wing Birther mob credit for representing concerns about health care reform from the electoral middle. He writes: A majority of the public supports...

Progressive Breakfast - 8/5/2009

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Progressives Prevent Right-Wing Mob From Masquerading As The Middle MSNBC's Rachel Maddow thoroughly reviews the direct connections between lobbyists and...

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