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Yesterday: Whirlpool Threatens Workers Who Protest Plant Closing, I thought that was the end of it, but whoa, what's this? Whirlpool Threatens Workers: Protesting Plant Closure Risks 'Future Jobs' A major corporation planning to shut down a factory in Indiana has...

McJoan at DailyKos says it best: "How despicable can these guys get?" This is how despicable: Starting Monday, 1.1 million people will lose their unemployment benefits because right-wing Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., thinks its more important to give tax breaks to...

A month ago while covering the arrest of James O'Keefe after his attempt to tamper with the phones at Senator Mary Landrieu's office the New York Times repeated conservative misinformation that smeared ACORN, and is now refusing to retract their "reporting." James...

Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post waxed lyrical today about the compromise deal on financial regulations proposed Sens. Dodd and Corker, calling it a "creative bipartisan proposal." It's certainly "bipartisan," and it may even be "creative." What it isn't is...

The other day I posted Whirlpool Bites Hands Of American Taxpayers That Feed It saying, in summary, • Whirlpool closes a plant in Evansville • Taxpayers will shoulder the unemployment and other costs. • All the local supplier, transportation and other third-party jobs...

All week long, conservatives have been whining that President Obama's offer for a televised bipartisan health care summit was a trap. As Jon Stewart said, it's only a trap if you "got nothing." If you come prepared with compelling ideas, it's not a trap, it's an...

In Oregon, citizens mobilized to pass progressive tax hikes -- on corporations and families making over $250,000 -- to help avoid cuts in children's and health care programs. Now in Montana, citizens are mobilizing for an initiative to put a cap on the interests pay...