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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...
How Many Rotting Apples Do Our Hedges Hide?
High-profile federal prosecutions of America's hedge fund managers only hint at the crime and ethical misbehavior rampant in America's most rewarding high-finance suites.
Health Care's Forgotten Crisis, Part 1
The real healthcare battle in this country isn’t the one being fought over the bill everyone now calls “Obamacare.” In fact, it's not a battle between Republicans and Democrats at all.
A Little Perspective, Please
The American Society of Civil Engineers has put out their 2013 Report Card on America's Infrastructure, that "depicts the condition and performance of the nation’s infrastructure." The score? D+
Apple: Bad Model for "Tax Reform." California, New Tax Thinkers, Chart a Better Way
In testimony last week Apple CEO Timothy Cook proudly described the ingenious ways in which Apple tax attorneys have gamed the U.S. tax system to make sure their company pays a whole lot less in taxes to the U.S.A. – their supposed "home country" – than U.S. users of...
