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Get Ready For America's Next 'Education Crisis'
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," has become a popular mantra of the ruling class. Of course, these are not the people who usually experience the brunt of a crisis. But a pervasive narrative in the mainstream media is that Americans are a people beset...
Surprise, Surprise: Some In GOP Back Tax Hikes In Exchange For Cuts In Safety-Net Programs
Nobody who reads this blog will be the least bit surprised by this turn of events: A growing chorus of Republicans is urging House leaders to abandon their staunch opposition to higher tax rates for the wealthy with the aim of clearing the way for a broad deal that...
Republican's Persecution Fantasies Have Made Them Unelectable.
Since the days of Lee Atwater, Republicans have relied on the politics of division and persecution fantasies. James Inhofe road into the Senate in 1994 on a platform of "God, Guns and Gays." Now? Not so much. Americans just aren't as afraid of the gays as they used...
Should Democrats Fold to Republican Demands?
The other day in the post Call Your Member Of Congress And Say “Discharge Petition,” I wrote about how Nancy Pelosi wants members of Congress to sign what is known as a “discharge petition” to force a vote on keeping taxes at current levels for people making under...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Jobs Fix Deficits OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "The economy is slowing, with signs of trouble on the horizon. Trade deficits are huge, a bad manufacturing number this week, Europe still stagnant and slipping (because of austerity), China slowing...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Jobs Fix Deficits OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "The economy is slowing, with signs of trouble on the horizon. Trade deficits are huge, a bad manufacturing number this week, Europe still stagnant and slipping (because of austerity), China slowing...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Jobs Fix Deficits OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "The economy is slowing, with signs of trouble on the horizon. Trade deficits are huge, a bad manufacturing number this week, Europe still stagnant and slipping (because of austerity), China slowing...
Jobs First Because Jobs Fix Deficits
What happened to jobs? The pubic wants government to do something about jobs and getting the economy moving, and in DC the only thing is this weird argument about … anything but jobs and getting the economy moving! "Fiscal cliff?" What about jobs? Fixing the...
The 1 Percent's "Fiscal Cliff" Counter-Revolution Will Be Televised
Free speech is a beautiful thing. And it's amazing how free someone's speech becomes -- and how unavoidable -- when they're part of a tiny elite with billions of dollars at its disposal: Suddenly you can "speak" in all the major media outlets. You can "speak" on Fox...
Why We Need Labor Unions After All
"All of a sudden it seems like there is a movement afoot of people saying we're going to push back." "And you know what? There should be a pushback." Henry Blodgett, in Why We Need Labor Unions After All Anyway, it would be great if companies would start sharing their...
