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Bad News for Democracy Is Great News for TV Profits
Television news has gone off its rocker. The networks have grasped Donald Trump to their collective bosom like the winner of one of those misogynistic, televised beauty pageants he owns.
Public Demands Campaign Donor Disclosure So GOP Congress BANS It
Republicans put a surprise sneak-law into the big, last-minute “Omnibus” budget bill: it bans the administration from making companies and “charities” disclose who is putting up the bribe money money for political campaigns.
Progressive Breakfast
Budget Deal Passes House approves bill to avoid shutdown. CNN News: "The House overwhelmingly backed a $1.1 trillion spending package on Friday that avoids a government shutdown and funds federal agencies through next fall. The 316-113 vote was as major victory for...
The Saturday Night Democratic Presidential Debate
Live from New Hampshire, it's the Saturday Night Democratic Presidential Debate, perversely designed to draw as small an audience as possible. Yet voters would be interested in the real differences in politics and strategy.
A Green and Dirty Gift
As lawmakers scurried to keep the government open and head home for the holidays, they wrapped spending and tax deals into a costly measure that highlighted our nation’s mismatched energy policies.
It's Time For Republicans To Start Standing Up To Trump
Republican presidential candidates had a chance to take a stand against Donald Trump's dangerous demagoguery at Tuesday night’s debate. None of them took it.
Citizens Deliver 150K Petitions Demanding Postal Banking
We can continue to have a rigged system that enables and encourages predators to take advantage of the public, or we can offer public options that protect and provide services for the public.
Progressive Breakfast
Spending Deal Budget deal bill boosts oil exports, renewable energy. Associated Press: “Republicans are hailing the likely demise of a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports, as well as spending limits imposed on the Environmental Protection Agency, a longtime GOP...
With Latest Budget Deal, More Failure By Design
Government spending is not out of control. It's the negative effects of not spending what we should that are threatening to spiral out of control. For conservatives, there is evil genius in all this.
Fed Should Go Slow After Disappointing Rate Hike
Today's decision by the Federal Reserve to increase its benchmark interest rate is a worrisome backward step from its work nursing the economy back to health. But here's how the Fed can contain the damage.
