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Progressive Breakfast - 1/25/2010
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. Scramble To Save Bernanke...
Wall Street's Bonus Binge in Perspective
A relative handful of Americans, a key congressional panel forecasts, will take home more this year than half the nation's taxpayers combined. Americans worried about the ever-intensifying concentration of wealth at America’s economic summit have been focusing...
What Barack Obama Said about the Supreme Court Before it Mattered
You know by now about the Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. FEC. Corporations are people, and corporate spending on political campaigns is the same as free speech. Here’s what Barack Obama said in Audacity of Hope, when he was halfway between a community...
The Futurist Weighs In, Part II: The Things We Leave Behind
My little series on the turn of the decade (which started last week) was originally conceived as a two-parter: a look back to the past, and a look ahead to the future. That changed a bit this week, when the present rose up and made itself known in a very big way....
Made In USA: Tesla Gets $465M Dept Of Energy Loan To Build Electric Sedan
Mostly I'm posting this because of the cool picture. I mean, just look at this thing: Tesla Motors lands $465M loan with feds to build Palo Alto plant Tesla Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday signed a landmark $465 million loan agreement that will...
Progressive Breakfast: WH Pressure to Back Insurance Tax
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Prez Presses House To Accept Insurance Tax, 190 Dems Push Back President presses House to accept Senate insurance tax. NYT: "President Obama told House...
Shock Doctrine in Reverse: A Week of Setbacks, A Window of Opportunity
What a week. Call it the Shock Doctrine in reverse: The Massachusetts election and yesterday's Supreme Court ruling may force the Democrats to move to the left to ensure their political survival. They're now faced with a choice they clearly didn't want: forcefully...
Tim Geithner's Wrong Again: We Need A Breakup
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on PBS late Thursday said that President Obama doesn't really want to break up the banks. But one of the authors of a report that looks at the impact of increased consolidation in the banking sector says that Geithner's resistance...
How To End Corporate Domination Of Government - And Our Lives
The Supreme Court yesterday allowed corporate executives to tap into their company's resources and use that money to directly influence elections instead of for the profitable operation of the company. This use of company funds isn't considered bribery because the...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/22/2010
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. Supreme Court Floods Democracy With...
