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Just Stop It: This Is NOT A Good Economy. We Can Fix It.
Recent stories appearing in "mainstream" opinion-leader outlets would have you think that things with the economy are going great – if you didn't know better (and they don't). The thing is that outside of the geographic areas and cultural circles these opinion leaders...
Our Ongoing Health Crisis, Part 2: The Cadillac Tax Is Still Foolish and Cruel
Part 1 of this series took a look at family healthcare costs for people with “good” insurance – better insurance, in fact, than most people will receive from the Affordable Care Act’s health care exchanges. We found that these costs soared above those of other...
Parks and Sequestration: America's "Worst Idea"
With the passing of Memorial Day Weekend, summer has unofficially begun. Schools will soon let out for summer break, and families will go on vacations, with many of them heading for national parks. But this summer is going to be a tough one for national parks, their...
Full Court Press: Obama Dares Republicans To Filibuster Nominees
Washington may be in for a very hot summer. I don't mean the usual sweltering heat and suffocating humidity that are just a natural part of living in a former swamp (or "tidal plain," if you prefer). While the rest of us will be sweating through another Washington...
Obama And Reid VS Obstruction - More Of This, Please
Obstruction as a political strategy is working - so far. It's also succeeding as a wage-reducing, profit-increasing strategy. How does a country confront a minority opposition strategy of obstructing everything? One way is to try to get the corporate media to inform...
Why America Needs An Education Spring
Well, someone in the mainstream media finally had to ask the question. MSNBC's Chris Hayes, on his "All In" program on May 24, covered the forced closing of 50 public schools in Chicago – the largest incident of mass school closings in the nation's history. Joining...
A Vision For Social Security
Is our country losing the vision and values that gave rise to Social Security? Social Security benefits lag far behind those of other developed countries. A new analysis of census data shows that elder poverty is much higher than we first realized. And yet the...
The Audacity Of Apple's "Ingenuity"
This week, Apple CEO Tim Cook was questioned in a Congressional Hearing about his company's complex scheme to avoid paying taxes. According to Mr. Cook, the company's stash of billions of dollars in overseas shell corporations was not tax dodging...
Yes, Those Groups Were Cheating
The New York Times has published an article about what some of the groups the IRS subjected to scrutiny actually did. And it is very informative. It would appear that many of these people were lying about their activities or "understood" their political activities to not be political. Seriously.
Gap: Receiving Bloody Property
You and I, we're the same. Live and die, we're the same. Hear my voice, know my name, you and I, we're the same. ~ Avett Brothers, Live and Die Although Gap, the world’s third largest apparel company, used that Avett Brothers song in commercials last fall, the...
