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Energy Dept's New Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative which will make American companies more competitive in the world economy.
Welfare Reform Can't Save Marriage
Everyone's talking about marriage this week. So it's hard to blame speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives T. W. Shannon for wanting to get in on the action with a bill to divert federal funds for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) to fund a...
If The Numbers Don't Add Up, Get New Numbers
This is how they achieve their long term goals --- under the radar, changing the way the numbers are calculated to prove an ideological point and change our understanding of how the world works. The story says the Senate endorsed "a model called 'dynamic scoring,'...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: We Can Have Banks That Work For the People OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "We all know the banking system is broken. It’s easy to become pessimistic in the face of corporate and political corruption, but the system can be changed. We’ve done it...
Progressive Breakfast
Public Banking: Yes, We Can Have Banks That Work For the People
We all know the banking system is broken. It's easy to become pessimistic in the face of corporate and political corruption, but the system can be changed. We've done it before, and we can do it again. One pathway to genuine reform is "public banking": the...
The Right Time vs. The Right Thing
"The Time is always right," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "to do the right thing." Unfortunately, that's not always true in Washington. Courage and conviction is too often in short supply in Washington. Those with the power to set in motion the kind of change that...
Bill O'Reilly And President Obama On The Same Page?
It would seem so: Speaking to Megyn Kelly about the Supreme Court's hearing on Proposition 8, O'Reilly--who has previously compared gay marriage to bestiality--appeared to have "evolved" on the subject. He said he didn't "feel that strongly" about gay marriage "one...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Austerity Lovers In D.C., Austerity Haters At Home OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "They cry for cuts, cuts, cuts. When the cuts happen in their districts they cry for cuts somewhere else ... Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-WI) decries government spending but...
Austerity Lovers In D.C., Austerity Haters At Home
In Washington, austerity-hungry Republicans called the sequester's "across the board" spending cuts a "victory" – until their districts feel them. Then they complain about the cuts, but still demand cuts somewhere else and add new demands that someone ELSE decide what...
