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What’s Green, White and Blue? American Jobs
Red, as in furiously red, defined the day last fall when a consortium of companies announced it wanted $450 million in U.S. stimulus money to build a wind farm in Texas, creating 2,000 jobs in China and 300 in America. Now, nine months later, things have cooled down...
Gibbs on the Left: Dog Bites the Man
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs went off the other day on the "professional left," which is never satisfied. The White House apparently is miffed at the criticism they get from the left. It's summer. It's hot. The president's poll numbers stink. The...
Progressive Breakfast: The House Returns
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. State Aid Will Pass This Week, But...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/10/2010
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. State Aid Vote Today, As GOP...
Unpaved: Out-Of-Cash America Undoing Its Infrastructure
First, 'Death Tax'; Now, 'Birth Tax'?
As the right continues to flail for new ways to justify its assault on progressive taxation, Robert Samuelson has come up with a doozy: If we raise taxes to reduce the deficit, "more Americans may choose not to have children or to have fewer children." Imagine the TV...
Conservanomics: A Church Without Bishops (but it's got Sarah Palin and Invisible Tax Fairies!)
Conservative economics has often felt like religious dogma, with its elevation of "a rising tide lifts all boats" to unintended extremes and its unfounded belief that lower tax rates create higher government revenue. But, at least as far as that second article of...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/9/2010
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. State Aid Will Pass This Week, But...
"The Uh-Ohs": A Decade of Conservative Failure
Forget about "the Aughts." Never mind "the Naughts." The decade just passed — and which promises to leave a lingering, bitter aftertaste — deserves a better, more descriptive name: "The Uh-Ohs: A Decade of Conservative Failure."
Social Security: Don't Fear the Boomers
They're too old to rock and roll, too young to ... ruin Social Security. Despite the scaremongers' attempts to incite generational war, people born between 1946 and 1964 are not going to destroy the Social Security system. The Baby Boom cohort isn't going to be a...
