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NEWSFLASH Other Republican Front Runner Also Saying Stupid Things
While the traditional media continue to chase the Herman Cain reality TV show presidential campaign into the abyss, that other Republican presidential candidate polling at the top also keeps saying really stupid things. Except that when Mitt Romney says stupid things,...
Walkers Anything But Jobs Special Session Wraps
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has promised to create 250,000 new jobs. In advance of a planned gubernatorial recall election, Walker announced last month that the State Legislature would focus "like a laser" on job creation. With his "special session" on jobs now...
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: After Ohio, Run...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/9/2011
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: After Ohio, Run...
Next After The Ohio Victory Run For America
Yesterday, Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected the effort to revoke basic worker rights, delivering a stunning rebuke to conservative Gov. John Kasich. That spark was lit in Madison, Wisconsin last winter when workers took over the state capitol and launched...
Its Simple Youre Either For the Bank Tax or Youre For the Banks
There's talk that the president and other elected officials will try to tap the Occupy Wall Street movement's energy to boost their campaigns. It's good to see the rhetoric finally moving in the right direction. Even better, now there's an easy way to prove it isn't...
Occupy Movement Is Spreading And Growing
Our captured government won’t do its job. It doesn't keep Wall Street and banks and giant corporations from ripping us off and doesn't prosecute them after they do. It doesn't stop polluters - even as the effects of climate change increase. It doesn't enforce...
Move Your Money Moved 50 Million; Goal Is 1 Billion
The New Bottom Line, one of the organizations leading the "move your money" movement and the national "Bank Transfer Day" on Saturday, announced today that nearly $50 million had been removed from Bank of America and other Wall Street banks. With that as a start, the...
Super Committee May Be The Real Turkey This Thanksgiving
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. I predicted two things in the Sept. 6 Fiscal Fitness — the first published after the Budget Control Act was signed into law this past Aug. 2 — that are coming true faster than I, even on my most cynical days, would have...
Will Grover Come Over
Brian Beutler has the latest on the Super Committee machinations: Super Committee Republicans are floating a trial balloon that would produce new tax revenue, in apparent contravention of Grover Norquist’s taxpayer protection pledge, according to Wall Street Journal...
