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John Boehners So Be It Economics
With a turn of phrase that ranks right up there with "I'm alright, Jack," "We care about the small people," and "Let them eat cake," House Speaker John Boehner voiced the Republican response to concerns about the consequences the GOP's...
A Question Watson the Computer Probably Cant Answer
A spectacular triumph of computing power invites us to think a bit about the work only we humans can do. The game show Jeopardy! drew record ratings earlier this week as two human former champs on the show squared off against an IBM computer — named...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/17/2011
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: "So Be It"...
Writing Off Real Americans
It looks like the Republicans have decided they don't need the votes of any people who work for the government or any of their families: If House Republicans succeed in cutting tens of billions of dollars in discretionary spending over the next six months, some of the...
CPAC & The Trouble With True Believers
Covering CPAC was like stepping through the looking glass. It was like a lot of political conferences I've seen, just with the context flipped. Usually, these conferences are mix of pragmatists and true believers. Ideally, that blend yields a message with broad...
Conservative Job Wrecking Crew Strikes Again FL Gov Kills 24000 High-Speed Rail Jobs
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Yesterday, Speaker John Boehner didn't shed one of many tears at the prospect of his proposing spending cuts destroying 200,000 jobs. Today,...
Six Things Everybody Knows About Deficits That Are Completely Untrue
Thanks to the generous support of billionaires and self-interested corporations, think tanks have seeded our political discourse with a lot of mistaken ideas about government spending and deficits. For too many journalists, consultants, and policy makers, these ideas...
Trump Speaks Truth To The Tea Party at CPAC
Believe it or not, the appearance of Donald Trump at CPAC was not the most surreal moment of my first day at the conference. That came later, but not by much. In his second "surprise appearance" this week, the curiously coiffed real estate mogul, and...
J-O-B-S CPACs Four Letter Word
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » I have to admit, I got a little excited during Mitt Romney's speech at CPAC. It began so well, in a sense. I wrote yesterday that I heard (and...
Succor the Rich Suffer the Child
The blizzard of budget numbers flurrying around Washington is disorienting. Republicans are talking about cuts in the next seven months. The president's budget proposes cuts in FY 2012 that begins in October. But both paint the same picture: deficits are high, cuts...
