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Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: Conservatives to Students, "Drop Dead!"
Robin Hood Tax: Economic Justice
Robin Hood popped up all across America last week.
Conservatives to Students: Drop Dead!
Never mind "class warfare." Generational warfare continues apace, this time in the editorial pages of the Washington Post, which echoed the conservative message to young (and older) Americans struggling with student debt: Drop dead.
Last Week's 'Arrest Rove' Demonstration And Today's Supreme Court Decision On Money In Campaigns
Last week around 200 people marched across Washington in 100-degree heat to the offices of Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS and pinned an arrest warrant on the door. This matters. It is one more in an ongoing series of actions that say that people are paying attention and are not going to just go away.
More Evidence The Federal Budget Debate Is Not Rational
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games.
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: Romney And The Rise Of The Superpredator Corporate Class
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: Romney And The Rise Of The Superpredator Corporate Class
Romney and the Rise of the Superpredator Corporate Class
Remember the "superpredators"? They were the supposedly super-violent youngsters of dark complexion that conservatives kept screaming about in the 1990s. We were told they were about to unleash an unprecedented wave of vicious crime any day now.
The Tiny Tax that Terrifies Wall Street
Robin Hood would not be happy if he happened upon our incredibly top-heavy modern world. But the new campaign to levy a tax on speculative trading would most likely have him breaking out in smiles.
Romney, Jobs And China -- Let's Connect Dots
Will Mitt Romney create jobs and help our economy, or will he just take us back to the Bush-era, send-jobs-to-China destruction that made him rich? With Romney there is no way to connect what he says with what he means or might do. So we are forced to read tea leaves and look for signs. Should be reading Chinese tea leaves?
