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Cheap Labor First, Healthy Families Last
The conservative movement has long been split on immigration. Nativist conservatives fear diversity and want to keep immigrants out. Corporate conservatives fear paying fair wages and want cheap immigrant labor. As neither camp cares about the well-being of workers on...
"Does That Work For You?"
Another Bush administration official has been caught fixing scientific reports for the benefit of White House cronies and ideological soul mates. The culprit this time is one Julie MacDonald, the deputy assistant secretary for the Fish and Wildlife Service in the...
Which Scandal To Focus On Today?
It's a tough question for this White House: which scandal to focus on today? Today, they're going for Walter Reed, as President Bush is slated to tour the military hospital. With the Prosecutor Purge scandal getting hotter and hotter, the ploy is to shift attention to...
Politics Over Performance
Much of the focus of the Senate's questioning of Kyle Sampson, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff, is on how Sampson's story squares with other Justice Department and White House officials, especially because Sampson and others risk being busted...
Politics Over Performance
Much of the focus of the Senate's questioning of Kyle Sampson, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff, is on how Sampson's story squares with other Justice Department and White House officials, especially because Sampson and others risk being busted...
Conflicting Stories, Empty Excuses, Unanswered Questions
After the first round of Kyle Sampson's testimony, what's the news so far? ThinkProgress finds Kyle Sampson making Attorney General Gonzales appear to be a liar. Gonzales had claimed Sampson didn't share key information about the Prosecutor Purge to him and his...
Worsening Income Inequality
There is more evidence today that the Bush administration’s economic policies are widening the gap between the rich and the poor. University of California at Berkeley professor Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Picketty of the Paris School of Economics released two studies...
Income Inequality Worsens
There is more evidence today that the Bush administration’s economic policies are widening the gap between the rich and the poor. University of California at Berkeley professor Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Picketty of the Paris School of Economics released two...
Sampson: Politics, Performance, What's The Difference!
The Senate's questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff Kyle Sampson is underway. (Watch it on C-Span 3, or online. TPMmuckracker and Firedoglake are liveblogging.) In his opening statement, he said the reasons for purging eight U.S....
Let The Kids Dance
If memory serves, back in 1995, right after the Republicans took over Congress, a pre-Fox News Dennis Miller looked at footage of a sea of grumpy white men sitting on their hands during a Bill Clinton State of the Union address, and remarked: It's the elders from...
