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Newtie Hates So Good

Here's some video of an arrogant white man lecturing a black man about what black people have a right to be offend by --- on Martin Luther King day: I especially liked the laughter at his nasty, sarcastic "well, first of all, Juan..." Those dogwhistles were so loud...

Dont Like This Newt Gingrich Wait Five Minutes

It looks like the old joke about the weather — "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it'll change" — is also true about Newt Gingrich. If you don't like this Newt Gingrich, wait five minutes and he'll change. When it comes to his attack on Mitt...

Progressive Breakfast - 1/17/2012

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: Law and Order,...

Law and Order 247 Except at Tax Time

The rich don't much like paying taxes when tax rates run high. They don't much like paying taxes when tax rates run low either. Any tax system that subjects rich people to high taxes is asking for trouble. Or so the politicians who cater to people of means incessantly...

From Resurrection City To The Occupy Movement

"We could use a massive, dramatic confrontation on behalf of the more than 27 million who are unemployed or underemployed today," I wrote one year ago. "The spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. would certainly be in its midst." Little did I know when I wrote those words...

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