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Whiplash Mitts One Unshakeable Conviction

As a Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney should wear a warning label: "CAUTION: following changes in this candidate's positions could cause whiplash and other injuries." Seriously, you could hurt yourself trying keep up with the speed with which this guy...

Mitt vs Mitt

And to think the Republicans called John Kerry a flip-flopper for saying he voted for war funding before he voted against it and are now very likely to put a ping-pong ball on their presidential ticket. Hypocrisy doesn't begin to describe it: Mitt Romney sparked...

Why Not Completely Eliminate The Corporate Income Tax

Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. Corporate tax reform as it's most often discussed these days sounds great in theory: Lower the overall tax rate and offset the budget impact by eliminating various special provisions. Who isn't in favor of that? As Greg...

Progressive Breakfast - 3/1/2012

MORNING MESSAGE: Bankers Should Worry About Subpoenas, Not Drum Circles OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently said that he felt safer in Lebanon than he did when Occupy marched past his house. If nothing else, it proves that Wall...

Drawing the Line with the Right

We're headed into an election that will feature the clearest ideological divide since Goldwater-Johnson. Romney and Gingrich and Santorum paint America on the brink of ruin -- about to "descend" into becoming an "entitlement society, not an opportunity society," a...

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