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If They Could Turn Back Time Pt 4
Imagine, if you will, Rand Paul, Michelle Bachman, and Sharron Angle — with Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck on speakerphone — sitting down together with a copy of the constitution, and a red pen. For edits, of course. Now, open your eyes. And, if you're a...
If They Could Turn Back Time Pt 1
You hear it all the time, these days. Tea baggers, militia members and various other conservatives all that to "take their country back." My usual response was to ask just how far back they want to go. I used to think I knew. It turns out, I had my time...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/24/2011
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: The Debit Card...
Debit Card Sharps The Fight Over Wall Streets Invisible Tax
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co (that guy again?), recently said that his bank would add new customer fees if it couldn't continue to charge exorbitant hidden fees for the use of debit cards. He was sorry, Dimon said, "but, of course, the...
Will Bitches and Turds Decide the Fate of Wisconsin
The reign of lawlessness continues in Wisconsin. Last week, a local court issued a temporary restraining order blocking the implementation of Governor Scott Walker's radical proposal to do away with most collective bargaining rights for public workers and cripple...
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: Rewriting Cantor's...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/23/2011
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: Rewriting Cantor's...
Rewriting Eric Cantors Cant On Jobs
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Monday unveiled what his office called a “pro-growth economic plan” in a speech at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. If the speech only exemplified one of the basic definitions of "cant"—"insincere or almost meaningless...
Radio Show Talking Points Invest To Grow Out Of Deficit
I was a guest on a segment of the Peter Schiff radio show this morning, guest-hosted today by Mike Pento. The show takes a libertarian/conservative point of view, and I welcomed the opportunity to contribute an alternative perspective. We need more like this to get a...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/22/2011
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: Merchants Of...
