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Tea Partiers Want A New Dollar Coin And Refuse To Listen To The Free Market In The Process
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. Over at TPM, Ryan Reilly has an intriguing post about the interest of some tea partiers for a new circulating dollar coin because it supposedly will save the federal government money. This follows a story in the...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/28/2011
MORNING MESSAGE: The GOP Strategy of Barely Functioning Government OurFuture.org's Bill Scher: "Congressional Republicans may not be replicating the disastrous shutdown strategy of their Newt Gingrich-led predecessors from two decades ago, but they are slyly executing...
Message From A Mugging Respond To The Youth Crisis
No one knows why a group of about 10 teenagers surrounded Trell Thomas at a bus stop in downtown Washington earlier this month and beat him so badly that his jaw was broken, causing permanent damage. But Trell has given a lot of thought about how to respond to the...
Another Fake Shutdown Crisis The GOP Strategy Of Barely Functioning Government
No government shutdown. No workers forced to take unpaid furlough. No additional blow to our struggling economy. Another crisis averted. Right? Not quite. Congressional Republicans may not be replicating the disastrous shutdown strategy of their Newt Gingrich-led...
Class Warfare Smackdown Bachmann vs Warren
Another GOP debate has rolled around (and another clip has been added to the "Low-Lights" reel from my previous post). This time it wasn't just the audience response that should have been embarrassing to any sane political party, but a candidate's...
Republicans Cheer That Labor Leaders Murdered In Colombia
Hundreds of executions in Texas -- Republican crowd cheers. An uninsured person in a coma -- Republican crowd shouts "Let him die!" And now, labor leaders murdered in Colombia -- Republicans say "A good start..." See the comments under an article at The Hill about how...
A Warning To Progressives Tell The Truth
Editor's Note: Shamako Noble, "The Sword of the West," is a San Francisco Bay-area emcee, organizer and activist. He is currently serving as co-founder and current National Field Director of Hip-Hop Congress. He is attending the Take Back the American Dream...
OK Sen Shelby Lets Tell the Truth About Jobs and Regulations
The Republicans have opened another front in their neverending war against regulations, those tools that help government protect us from greedy corporations. Leading the charge once again is Sen. Richard Shelby, the willing servant of Wall Street who weakened the...
Why This is Exactly the Time to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure
Robert Reich will be laying out his vision to create jobs at the Oct. 3-5 Take Back the American Dream conference. The following was originally published at RobertReich.org. Seems like only yesterday conservative nabobs of negativity predicted America’s ballooning...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/27/2011
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: Tell The Truth...
