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The Bonuses and the Damage They Do
This is a story we are all too familiar with: Wall Street vs. Main Street. Irresponsible behavior leads to bonuses for Wall Street while working hard and playing by the rules leads to unemployment and foreclosure for Main Street. You've heard the elements of the...
Beware the Book of the Dead
Actual cover of "Your Life, Your Choices" offered by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs Did you hear the latest ridiculous lie the right-wing is promoting against health insurance reform? You see, there is a book, an evil book, and if you read it, you get a phone call, and...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/25/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Bernanke Re-Appointed to Head Fed Baseline Scenario's Simon Johnson asks "Which Bernanke Are We Getting?" "1. The Bernanke who led the charge to rescue the US...
The Tyranny of the Tantrum
As the parent of a small child — who is apparently entering the "terrible twos" a few months early — I tend to put things in that context sometimes. What we're seeing from the health care town halls, what we've seen from the "birthers" and what we saw during...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/24/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Senate Rules Not An Obstacle To Simple Majority Vote on Health Care Who needs conservatives to pass public option? NYT: "Senate Democrats said Sunday that they...
The Most Promising Push Yet for a 'Maximum Wage'
Across the pond, in the UK, the idea of capping income is suddenly starting to make a respectable splash. The Great Depression gave us the minimum wage. Might we now see a “maximum wage,” thanks to the Great Recession? That prospect now seems to have...
The Week In Blog: The Right Fights Itself on Co-Ops
In the latest edition of The Week In Blog at Bloggingheads.tv, Matt Lewis and myself discussed blog reaction to the ongoing health care, both divisions within the Left, and -- which I had not been aware of -- the Right
Neutralizing Big Oil's Climate Bill Attack, With Investment in Manufacturing
The oil lobby's latest Astroturf concoction is "Energy Citizens." Its website practically looks like it's a group pushing clean green jobs, with it's green-tinted USA map and call to "support American jobs and affordable energy." Its attempt as a grassroots rally was
Michele Bachmann: Pro-Choice Warrior
While reading through the latest news this morning I happened upon a startling, yet much-welcomed story about GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann. It comes as just the latest sign that in the 21st Century we are moving toward an overwhelming pro-choice consensus in this...
The Republican "Do Not Resuscitate" Plan to Let Medicare Die
During a webcast meeting with Organizing for America on Thursday, President Barack Obama outed the covert Republican plot to strangle Medicare to financial death. He explained to the group that if Congress does nothing, if health care reform fails, "Medicare will run...
