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Everybody Has A Manufacturing Strategy Except the USA
If you want to field a good baseball team, you don't just show up on opening day and say "Let's play." No, you carefully plan your team. You make sure to get the best pitchers ("pitching, pitching, pitching," as they say). And you make sure your...
Media Chase The Cain Circus Miss The Real Scandal
Last month, CBS conducted a poll asking "what do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?" In first place was, "economy and jobs," with 57%. in second place was, the "budget deficit" and "national debt," with ... 5%. Every other issue was 3%...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/3/2011
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: Occupy The Kochs...
New Effort To Make Wall Street Pay
Finally, there is a sign that those in Washington are hearing the cries from protestors around the country about making Wall Street pay for the damage they have done to the economy. Legislation imposing a financial transaction tax was introduced today in the Senate by...
Nations Report Card Distracts From Real Concerns For Public Schools
Imagine you’re a parent of a seven-year-old who has just come home from school with her end-of-year report card. And the report card provides marks for only two subjects, and for children who are in grade-levels different from hers. Furthermore, there's nothing on the...
Castrated Servants Of Royalty
The right leaning, safety net slashing Simpson-Bowles consensus of two is being revised. Rightwards: “As I have thought about it…under the Affordable Health Care Act we provide subsidies for people who have really chronic illnesses and people who have limited incomes...
Protecting The Right To Vote
Last month, Dorothy Cooper, a 96-year-old African-American woman from Chattanooga, Tennessee, went to the ballot box to vote. Dorothy was born before women had the right to vote and when Jim Crow laws kept most African-Americans disenfranchised. Despite this, Dorothy...
What Would Adam Smith Say
Elizabeth Warren really hit a nerve among conservatives with her winning message about the the social contract and America's economy. What I didn't know is that she did it with an assist from the right's favorite philosopher on economic policy. Just to review, here's...
Policing the 99 Percent Pt 1
Much has already been written and said about violence police used against unarmed OWS protesters in New York, Chicago, Boston, and now Oakland. From using pepper spray against peaceful protesters to lobbing flash bombs at unarmed protesters rushing to help an injured...
Lessons in Positive Policing From Wisconsins Original Occupation
After two tours of duty in Iraq, 24-year-old Wisconsin native Scott Olsen managed to escape unscathed and with seven medals for valor. But Olsen was critically injured in an Occupy Oakland march last week by a police projectile. See video here. According to...
