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A Keystone We Can Agree On: A Blue-Green Infrastructure Push
The BlueGreen Alliance’s annual Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference began this week with a focus on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, as well as ways to combat climate change while creating well-paying jobs.
Obamacare and the Right-Wing Fight for Indentured Servitude
There’s an underlying pattern to policy positions "freedom"-proclaiming conservatives are taking. Each would rob people of their freedom to choose their jobs, negotiate their salaries, or decide how they want to live.
Progressive Breakfast
No Spending Cuts On Debt Limit Hike Republicans try to figure out how to surrender on debt limit. W. Post: "Facing a timeline that leaves no room for trial and error, some party leaders were advocating a debt-ceiling solution that would wrap several popular, must-pass...
A March In North Carolina For The Soul Of America
There is a growing populist resistance to the conservative extremist agenda, and Saturday's Moral March on Raleigh was designed to launch the next phase of a nationwide push-back against tea-party Republicans.
North Carolina’s New Populist Majority Rallies in the Streets of Raleigh
I was honored to be part of a historic and joyful event on Saturday as an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 North Carolinians streamed into their capital city from all over their state to participate in an historic Moral March on Raleigh.
National Media Blackout Of Saturday's Huge Moral March In Raleigh
An estimated 80,000 people showed up to march on the capitol in Raleigh, N.C. Saturday. But you wouldn't know it if you live outside the area. The country's big, corporate media didn't inform their audiences.
Wingnut Week In Review: We, Too, Sing America
In the words of Langston Hughes, “We, too, sing America.” We sing it in the varied tones of our many cultures. We sing it in with accents both regional and international, in every language we know — even if it drives right-wingers crazy.
The Unaffordable WeDon’tCare Act
The GOP is moving ahead with new plans to replace the Affordable Care Act. Their belated solution to the nation's health insurance challenges just makes working families pay more.
A Bit Of Sort-Of Good News On Manufacturing Jobs
There were 21,000 new manufacturing jobs in this report. At that rate President Obama won't make it to his goal of 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term.
Reagan Remembered: The Failed Legacy of Our First Corporate Politician
Reagan’s economic legacy is one of failure, but in another way it could be argued that he was genuinely transformative: as the first celebrity politician for the modern corporate state.
