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What Actual Job Creators Really Want

Progressive activists are accustomed to raising the bull-droppings deflection shield whenever a conservative utters a sentence containing the words "job creators." We know what's coming—and there's a lot of it. Just in the 24-hour period between Thursday afternoon and...

Keeping Hope Alive

Here's the president yesterday: The bridge behind us happens to connect the state that is home to the Speaker of the House, with the home state of the Republican leader in the Senate... Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell, those are the two most powerful Republicans in...

Supporting The Troops

It's getting hard to keep track of all the cringe-worthy moments at the GOP debates. To that end I've created a kind "Low-lights" reel of such moments from the last few. (I fully expect to update this regularly.) The latest, of course, is the booing of a gay...

ANOTHER Hostage-Taking Threat To Shut Down Government

Just weeks after the "debt-ceiling" hostage-taking, forcing trillions to be cut out of the economy, the hostage-takers are at it again. Now they are threatening a government shutdown, demanding even more cuts in the "continuing resolution" that keeps the government...

Solyndra Controversy a Transparent Attempt to Kill Green Energy

David Dayen will be a featured speaker at the Take Back the American Dream conference, convening in Washington, D.C., from Oct. 3 to 5. The following was originally published at FireDogLake. Conservatives are pushing very hard to punish the White House over loan...

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