by Richard Long | Apr 1, 2013 | Blog
“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power.” Ah yes, the immortal words of philosopher Antonio Montana in his seminal work, “Scarface.” Unfortunately, he has a point. Those who have the money in America do have the...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog
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...
by Digby | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog
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,'...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog
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...
by Digby | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog
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...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 27, 2013 | Blog
The International Federation of Health Plans has depicted our ridiculous health care system in 21 graphs. We don't get more health care; we just pay more -- much more. And this entirely accounts for the scary long-term deficit projections. If we paid what every other...
