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LBJ: Medicare Because We Owe It To Them
On the 45th anniversary of the passage of Medicare, the blog corrente offers this charming story about LBJ talking with his press secretary, Bill Moyers, about why he's for Social Security and Medicare. A good lesson at a time when politicians are talking about the...
Even Wall Street Agrees: Govt Should Borrow To Invest
Our current economic model depends on ever-increasing consumption. This model worked during the early industrial revolution worked because it filled existing needs: Farmers depending on horses needed tractors. Kitchens needed gas stoves and refrigerators, etc....
Mort Zuckerman Is Not Incompetent
Mort Zuckerman's recent opinion piece in the Financial Times, "Obama needs to stop baiting business," is a tawdry, sorry spectacle. Paul Krugman's already explained how Zuckerman, the publisher of US News & World Report and the New York Daily News, distorted the...
Progressive Breakfast: TGIF? Weak Economic Data Ends The Week
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. Growth Slows, Foreclosures Up,...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/30/2010
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. Growth Slows, Foreclosures Up,...
Obama Starts Race War to Win Election: An Inquiry Into Conspiracy Theories, Part II
The beat goes on. In the nearly two weeks since I wrote Part I of this series, an armed gunman was arrested en route to assaulting an obscure progressive foundation in San Francisco -- one that's often been at the center of Glenn Beck's blackboard (which has become...
Strengthen Social Security Coalition Puts Both Parties On Notice
More than 60 organizations that represent more than 60 million Americans are banding together to deliver a straightforward message to politicians this fall: Don't mess with Social Security. "Don't turn Social Security in the scapegoat for the deficit," said AFSCME...
Harry -- Roll Out The Cots! Again And Again And Again!
Dear Senate Majority Leader, you are letting the public down. We, the People need you to get things done but everything is being blocked by a minority. The public doesn't understand that everything is being filibustered, so they are not applying the pressure that...
The Conservative Smear Machine Has Failed Conservatism
Earlier this week, NYTimes.com highlighted the above Bloggingheads.tv clip of Conor Friedersdorf and myself discussing the effectiveness of, in Conor's words, the attitude of parts of both conservative and progressive movements to treat politics as "war" with...
America's Top Incomes: Down But Certainly Not Out
New data — for 2008 — have revealed a shrinking gap between the rich and the rest of us. But the nation's top high-income tracker isn't celebrating. And neither should we. Will the Great Recession, once the dust settles, leave the United States less unequal? A...
