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Todays Social Security Propaganda Rebuttal Post

Marketing works. If you put a lot of money into repeating a marketing message over and over and over, eventually people's brains absorb the message. Conservatives have put a lot of money and effort into convincing people that there is something wrong with Social...

False Fear Cyborgs Instead of CEOs

The nightmare for far too many is Cyborgs. The public fears HAL, the 2001 Space Odyssey computer that killed astronauts rather than forfeit its objective. So terrified of the sentient machine, citizens overlook the allegory. The soft-spoken, reasonable-sounding HAL...

Progressive Breakfast - 3/28/2011

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Harry's Fight Is...

Inequalitys Impact A New Debate Opens

If the wealth of the wealthy really bothered Americans, flacks for grand fortune enjoy declaring, our political system would be shaking something fierce. They don't see a whole lot of shaking. Should we? Apologists for inequality have an all-purpose defense for our...

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