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Taking From The Poor And Giving To The Pentagon. This Is The GOP.
The GOP is targeting Medicaid in its next attack on health care reform. House Republicans want to take $21 billion budgeted for the Medicaid expansion and use it to cover defense cuts. This is who they are.
GOP Threatens Revenge For Nuclear Option. Easier Said Than Done.
The air is filled with Republicans claiming Democrats will rue the day they ended the filibuster for lower-level federal judicial appointments. They'll appoint a slew of Scalia clones, repeal Obamacare, junk the EPA.
Is Economist Tyler Cowen The Next Tom Friedman?
I just had a new piece published in Salon.com about Tyler Cowen, the libertarian economist who's been described as "the next Tom Friedman." Cowen shares Friedman's infatuation with technology - and his belief that the middle class is disposable.
Put 'Full Employment' Back On The National Agenda
The phrase "full employment" is treated as something that would be uttered only by wild-eyed radicals. It's time to mainstream the term. That's why a new book by economists Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein is so important.
Progressive Breakfast
Filibuster Reform Reinvigorates Second Term W. Post on how it helps Obama: "The most immediate effect will be felt at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ... The court is likely to help decide whether Obama can enact new Environmental...
The "Real JFK" – Not Conservative, and Not Forgotten
Presidents are the products of the times at least as much they are the shapers of them. JFK was not a conservative. That idea calls upon us to, in Rilke’s words, “gently remove the semblance of injustice that ... hinders spirits from moving on."
Gloria Steinem: A Liberator Gets The Medal of Freedom
As conservatives wage a “war on women” to deny women the rights they have been struggling to win in the past five decades, a leader in that struggle still shows progressives how to move forward, and gets a well-deserved honor.
Huge, Huge Victory For Political Sanity Today
Kids, don't say Harry Reid never did anything for you. He and the Senate Democrats just ended the use of the filibuster for executive branch appointments and lower court judges. Right-wing dominance of our judicial system will be diluted.
The JPMorgan Settlement Is A Scam!
On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced that JPMorgan has agreed to a $13 billion dollar settlement over the fraudulent sale of mortgage backed securities. But, that settlement is a fraud in and of itself.
Progressive Breakfast
Senate May End Judicial Filibusters Today Reid may move to scrap most judicial filibusters as soon as today, reports Bloomberg: " Reid said Nov. 19 that he wouldn’t accept anything short of having all of the latest D.C. Circuit nominees approved. 'I insist on getting...
