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SOTU He Hasnt Learned Anything More About the Economy in the Past Year

Last year I prepared for the SOTU by speculating about the “fairy tales” the President would tell about fiscal responsibility, fiscal sustainability and the debt/deficit problem. That series ended here, and here. Yesterday's SOTU covered many subjects, but once again,...

Job Creators

They used to say that the money wealthy people spent would trickle down to everyone else, but nobody was really buying it. I'm not sure anyone's buying this either: "Let's define rich," Scarborough suggested. "So, what's the cutoff? Is it $500,000?" "I don't even want...

Progressive Breakfast - 4/12/2012

MORNING MESSAGE: Make Mitt Pay His Fair Share OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "We saw the need for the Buffett Rule when Mitt Romney revealed his taxes. Worth over $250 million, Romney paid a tax rate of 13.9% on income of millions. The police who protect him pay a...

Allen West and the Conservative Mind

I didn't think that anyone — not even her fellow Republicans — could top Michelle Bachmann's 2008 interview with Chris Matthews, in which she accused then-candidate Barack Obama — and certain members of Congress — of being "anti-American," and urged the media to "do a...

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