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MORNING MESSAGE: Individuals vs. Giant Corporations
WTF Moment -- US Olympic Team Uniforms Made In China
The U.S. Olympic team's uniforms were made in China? This might be a WTF moment for the country, over the practice of sending our jobs, factories, industries and economy to China for the super-enrichment of a few. What next, a President made in China?
Reviving and Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing
Following is the talk I gave to the Take Back the American Dream conference panel, Making It In America: Reviving and Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing.
You have undoubtedly heard the numbers, almost all of them bad.
Heritage Foundation Lies About Obama Welfare Reform Change
The Heritage Foundation today spread a falsehood about a change the Obama administration is instituting in the 1996 welfare reform law that has rapidly spread through the right-wing blogosphere. Letting Heritage and the right wing get away with this lie would do serious harm to people trying to pull themselves out of poverty.
Paying Taxes: Waking Up With The House On Fire
If your neighbor’s house is on fire, you don’t haggle over the price of your garden hose.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What Happened At Bain In 1999?
I have been wondering obsessively why Romney is so keen on saying that he left Bain in 99 instead of 02. I mean it's not as if he's running from his career there in general. So why is so adamant that he not be associated with it during that period? The easiest answer is that he stupidly said it without really thinking through the implications of holding the title and being compensated while allegedly being uninvolved and now he's stuck with it because of his FEC filing.
On the other hand, there are some things beyond the usual off-shoring and layoffs that he might not want it known that he profited from. Henry Blodget writes:
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Where's The Media on Bain?
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Where's The Media on Bain?
If Bankers Took Steroids or Made Knockoff Handbags, They'd Clean Up Wall Street Tomorrow
If only. If only Brian Moynihan designed fashionable shoes, Jamie Dimon pitched a mean slider, and Lloyd Blankfein had written the song "Boyfriend" for Justin Bieber. Then they'd prosecute bank fraud.
Critical Questions Democrats Must Ask About School Choice
Left-leaning people everywhere recently got a hoot when the Texas Republican Party declared its opposition to the teaching of "Higher Order Thinking Skills," including "critical thinking skills," in public schools.
