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What Does Health Care Have To Do With The Olympics? Possibly Everything.
My adopted home town of Vancouver, BC is returning to normal this week. The party's over, the Olympic banners are coming down, and the world is catching its planes for home. But the Canadian flags are still flying everywhere against the late winter skies, thanks to a...
Whirlpool Tells Callers: Call Congress. They're Right!
In the middle of this terrible jobs crisis Whirlpool is closing a factory in the US and sending the jobs to Mexico. Their Mexican workers will be paid $70 a week so they won't be buying any refrigerators. As I wrote the other day, Our system is broken when "the...
Social Security Works for People of Color
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=885 * The Social Security program itself is race blind; the benefits it pays are a function of a worker’s earnings history and family situation. * Studies show African Americans receive modestly more in Social Security benefits for...
Hypocrite Of The Decade Sen. Orrin Hatch Backed Breaking Senate Rules To Ram Through Judicial Noms
Today in the Washington Post opinion section, Sen. Orrin Hatch called using Senate budget rules to pass health care an undemocratic affront to the Constitution: This use of reconciliation to jam through this legislation, against the will of the American people, would...
Bunning Fails Economics 101: Why Deficits Saved The World
In Sen. Jim Bunning's words, he's not obstructing because he's against unemployment insurance. (That would be Sen. Jon Kyl) . He just wants the cost of extending unemployment insurance to be offset by cutting back on the Recovery Act, so we don't increase the budget...
Progressive Breakfast: Bunning Gives America The Finger
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. Senate Dems Respond To Filibuster...
Progressive Breakfast - 3/2/2010
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. Senate Dems Respond To Filibuster...
Rush Limbaugh, Listen to Your Brain
Deep down in our lobes, says new research from an international scientific team, sits a basic tilt toward fairness. Are we humans hard-wired to hoard or to “share the wealth”? Are we selfish by nature? Or do our psyches have a preference for equality...
Sen. Kyl Calls Jobless Aid "Disincentive For Work," Doubles Down on Bunning Filibuster
Minutes ago on the Senate floor, the Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl just defending Sen. Jim Bunning's filibuster by attacking the entire premise for unemployment insurance during a protracted period of job losses. Sen. Kyl argued that unemployment insurance would not...
Sen. Jim Bunning Literally Gives The Finger To America. Here's How We Can Fight Back.
The exploitation of the Senate rules to obstruct the majority will has reach it's inevitable but inane endpoint. Sen. Jim Bunning has single-handledly forced the furlough of 2,000 transportation workers and cut off hundreds of thousands unemployed Americans from...
