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Does Government Know Who The Boss Is

In Washington state workers are allowed to organize and form unions so they can win good wages and benefits. In "right-to-work" states like South Carolina, though, the government sides with big companies against their workers. (They used to have even harsher...

Rot At The Top John Galt is an Amoral Idiot

To Dodger fans like me and mine, this has been an embarrassing and horrifying season, and it has nothing to do with what's going on on the field. The horrifying part was the attack on a Giants fan by psychotic gang members on opening days, of course. The embarrassing...

The Benton Harbor Uprising Why It Matters

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Benton Harbor, Mich., is a small community of about 10,000 people that has had big problems for decades. It's a virtually all-black town where the median income is less than $17,500 and the...

The Deficit IS Jobs But There Is A Deficit OF Jobs

There is a deficit of jobs AND the deficit is jobs. The public is so much smarter than the geniuses in DC. Washington talks about the deficit but the public knows that the deficit is jobs. That huge deficit jump to over a trillion that happened in Bush's last budget...

13 Things We Know About Taxes

"What do we think? What do we know? What can we prove?" That's a quote from "And the Band Played On," HBO's adaptation of Randy Shilts' book about the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It's the mantra of Centers for Disease Control...

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