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The Empty Suit

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
 "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty,...

Progressive Breakfast

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: The Empty Suit...

What's Up With Cybersecurity and Chinese Telecoms?

Two items in the news: a congressional committee warns that Chinese telecom companies might be spying on us, and the Secretary of Defense warns about "cybersecurity." One report even says that Chinese-made equipment used in businesses here sends data to China at...

The One Percent's Titanic Self-Delusion

Last summer I compared the GOP to a mutinous first-mate on the Titanic, steering  the economy into an iceberg in hopes of taking over when the captain goes with the ship, while forgetting that they're "in the same boat." If our economy was the RMS Titanic, Republicans...

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