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Top 10 Crazy Things Conservatives Say Global Warming Edition
It's been 20 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated, 19 months since the Recovery Act began investing billions in producing clean energy, 16 months since the House passed carbon cap legislation and 10 months since the EPA declared it was obligated, following a...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/15/2010
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Fed Poised To Act "Bernanke Signals...
Tea Party Populism RIP Beck Backs Pro-TARP Pro-Stimulus Chamber Of Commerce
The Tea Party has long attempted to portray itself as a populist movement -- angry both at Wall Street bailouts and social spending. The notion of government action working to save the private sector from collapse was literally depicted as a giant step towards Nazism,...
Reminder Im On The “Keep It Made In America” Town Hall Tour
I am joining and writing about the "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall tour. (Click through for more info and a map.) The tour is from October 12-29 and I will be joining from October 13-19, starting tomorrow in Jackson, Michigan. The official tour announcement:...
Ill Be On The “Keep it Made in America” Town Hall Tour Next Week
I will be joining and writing about the "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall tour. (Click through for more info and a map.) The tour is from October 12-29 and I will be joining from October 12-19. The official tour announcement: Creating Jobs Takes Center Stage at...
Flint Michigan A City Ahead Of The Rest Of Us
I am in Flint, Michigan today, getting ready to drive down to Jackson for this evening's "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall. Flint has been through it and has come out the other end. Now the rest of us are going through what Flint has been going through. Many people...
Cold Case File Who Shot Down a 70-Year-Old Attack on Social Security
Heard the one about the Social Security Trust Fund that holds nothing but "IOUs"? That phony claim goes back to at least 1939, when a rabidly anti-Roosevelt journalist named John T. Flynn used a colorful analogy about a tin box in a drawer in order to argue that...
Radio Converation About Foreclosures and Automated Greed Factories Charles Jaco Fox News Radio in St Louis
Appeared on the Jaco Report on Fox News in St. Louis. We had a good talk about foreclosure fraud, the "automated greed factories," and the dead soul of modern banking: Richard Eskow Jaco St Louis Fox 10-13-10
Minimal Wages for All
Here's another reason to vote in the mid-term elections this November: Conservatives think you need a pay cut. As I've said once or twice before, conservatives' bottom line message is simple: America has economic problems because too many people have had it good for...
Celinda Lakes Advice Dont Swerve Right to Win Blue-Collar Support
Populist Anger And The Midterm Elections View more presentations from OurFuture.org. There are still ways for progressive candidates to win the support of working-class, blue-collar candidates, even in today's particularly hostile campaign environment, according to...
