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Opponents Of Elizabeth Warren Dont Understand The Constitution
Rep. Barney Frank made the following statement today in support of having Elizabeth Warren head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. You can send a message to the Senate Republicans obstructing her potential nomination by going to OurFuture.org/Warren. It is...
Bernie Sanders Prescription for Big Pharma
Two years ago I blogged about being one of millions of Americans who has to swallow one of Big Pharma's bitter pills every morning. Over the last few years, drug-makers have embraced a startlingly simple tactic for fending off competition from generic brands: paying...
Vomit Baby Vomit Do Republicans Love Food Poisoning
I thought my outrage meter was about pegged today after learning that coal companies are essentially bribing schools to lie to children about fossil fuels (e.g. "Our world is deficient in carbon dioxide, and a doubling of atmospheric CO2 is very beneficial."...
Mainstream Media Air The Voices Of The American Majority
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has a voice that is noticeably absent from the Sunday morning news programs. He is opposed to cutting Social Security. He is in favor of raising taxes on the wealthy. He stands firmly for economic views that have the support...
E. coli conservatives
By Rick Perlstein First, they came for the spinach. I remember the day last September. The supermarket had a new kind of salad dressing, one that looked like it would taste good with spinach. I went to the produce section to buy a bag. But they all had been recalled....
Hoodwinked Wall Street Economists Sell Job Despair As The New Normal
In light of today's terrible job numbers, it's a bittersweet experience to re-read a recent report from Wells Fargo Bank which argues that high unemployment is "the new normal." While it's comforting to find Wells Fargo employees who aren't laundering money for the...
Coal Industry Paying Schools To Tell Kids Doubling Of Atmospheric CO2 Is Very Beneficial
The Washington Post published an investigative report on how fossil fuel companies are "spending significant sums of money" to directly fund public schools that teach biased curriculums that promote their industries. And the most brazen example is buried in the middle...
Its Now Indisputable We Have A Jobs Crisis
Now can we agree that there is a jobs crisis? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an anemic number of new jobs created in May, 54,000. In other words, we're moving backward in terms of putting Americans back to work, as indicated by the uptick in the unemployment...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/3/2011
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: It's Indisputable:...
School Cuts And Reforms Feed The Prison Pipeline
As educators close out this school year and go into planning mode for the next, what many of them truly dread is the fiscal nightmare being handed to them by miserly state governments who've decided to balance their budgets on the backs of helpless school children....
