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Austeritys Catastrophic Success Continues
Paul Krugman notes Ireland is still "hailed as a success" (right up there with Latvia), when there was never anything about in Ireland's austerity policies — or the whole Eurozone embrace of austerity — that anyone could truly call successful. Not with a straight...
Among GOP Candidates Not a Single Friend of Social Security
The Strengthen Social Security Campaign has created a guide evaluating the “friendliness” of six Republican candidates, “Among Republican Candidates, Not a Single Friend of Social Security.” The Campaign has also produced longer individual profiles of Mitt Romney,...
What Does It Mean For House Republicans To Be In Full Revolt On Payroll Tax Cut
Politico reported Sunday that the House GOP rank-and-file are in "full revolt" over the payroll tax cut bill the Senate passed yesterday and that the results of the Monday vote on it are in doubt. The bill will pass the House as is if there is a straight up-or-down...
Havel the Dissident A Legacy Worth Claiming
On a warm evening in 1991, a colleague and I found an out-of-the-way café in the old part of Prague. Two men with blank expressions stood outside. The interior was dim and close, with room for only eight or nine tables. The place was almost empty. Just a sleepy...
How To Choose So Many Constitutional Amendments
There is a growing movement of people fed up with corporations-as-persons, money-as-speech, elections-for-sale in America. They are ready to amend the US Constitution as the only sure way to reverse the Supreme Court’s decisions in Citizens United v. FEC and Buckley...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/19/2011
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: Devastating,...
Devastating Job-Killing Socialist Regulations
Conservatives, their movement funded by big oil and king coal, constantly complain about "job-killing regulations." They say that the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing "socialism" because it wants to lower the amount of pollution that energy companies pump...
What the GOP Really Wants But Hasnt Gotten (Yet)
The sausage is nearly made. The deal is almost done. Shutdown has been averted. Again. For now. The process wasn't pretty, and progressives are justifiably disappointed that Democrats gave up on the millionaire's surtax — which had overwhelming public support, even...
Who Protects Info You Give To Offshored Call Centers
Companies are always looking for ways to reduce the number of people they employ, and for ways to reduce the pay and benefits for the ones they keep. One way they have been doing this is to send jobs out of the country to places where the people don't have the...
Ron Wydens Revenge
In case you were wondering whether the Village would be dizzy with excitement over the Ryan-Wyden plan, here's NBC's First Read: *** Wyden gives Romney cover: When he was asked about the new Paul Ryan (R)/Ron Wyden (D) Medicare proposal at last night’s debate, Romney...
