Mainstream Media Falls in Love With Paul Ryan
The liberal mainstream media has fallen in love again. This time it’s with Wisconsin’s Republican Representative Paul Ryan and his “Roadmap for America’s Future” version 2.0. Everything’s version 2.0...
View ArticleMatthew Yglesias Explains the Rise of Xenophobia
Racism and xenophobia are always lurking under the surface in American life and politics. And when times get tough, more and more people will cling to the ugliness that is bigotry, and politicians will...
View ArticleRachel Maddow: Government Sheds 200,000 Jobs
Here are two screenshots from Rachel Maddow’s show on Friday highlighting how much the economy sucks. The private sector added jobs, but those gains were swamped by the government shedding jobs.
View ArticleAl Qaeda is to Islam What the KKK is to Christianity
Rightbloggers, Fox News and conservative politicians are purposely conflating Al Qaeda with Islam. While it’s true that Al Qaeda members claim to be living the lives of righteous Muslims – the fact is...
View ArticlePublishers Clearing House Sweepstakes Odds of Winning 1 in 1.75 billion
Here’s an e-mail I received today from Attorney General of Washington Rob McKenna regarding the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes. The odds of winning the $10 million prize are 1 in 1.75 billion...
View ArticleEveryone Does Better When There’s a Democratic President
Historically, whenever the Democrats are running the government, the economy does better and everyone gets richer. When the Republicans are in charge, the rich do slightly worse off than if Democrats...
View ArticleNext Senate Could be Loaded With Conservative Ideologues
If the polls are right – you have every reason to believe that they aren’t – but if they’re right, as many as 12 never-before-seen ultra-conservative Republicans will be in the Senate next year. Ron...
View ArticleHealth Care Blamed for US Slump on Global Longevity Scale
The Democrats chose to “compromise” on health care and to govern like a bunch of pansies, and now they’re crapping their pants with the November elections looming. If they’d done what people elected...
View ArticleThe Recession is Over but the Jobs are Just Gone – Poof
Here’s a graph by the New York Times of past recessions and employment recovery. If the recession is over, it sure doesn’t feel like it to people who don’t work on Wall Street. This is an example of...
View ArticleReal Small Business Owners Say Let the High-end Taxes Expire
Anti-tax crusaders like Grover Norquist love to use small business owners as their prop to argue for slashing taxes on the wealthiest of Americas. It’s as if he doesn’t realize that when he says that...
View ArticleMillionaires: The One Minority Group Overrepresented in Congress
A new study by the Center for Responsive Politics shows that the wealth of members of Congress increased by 16 percent from 2008 to 2009. And while some lawmakers lost some money when the stock market...
View ArticleBush Tax Cuts Did Not Spur Growth – Not At All
If you listen politicians, pundits and talking heads, you’d think the greatest thing we can do to jump-start the economy is to cut taxes. But if you actually take a minute and look at the data, you’ll...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Lower Than it was in 1968
Adjusting for inflation, the minimum wage today is lower than it was in 1968. “If you’re one of the several million Americans earning minimum wage, here’s a sobering fact: Your grandpa had more...
View ArticleLayoffs Fall to Lowest Level in 2 Years. Income Up. Americans Spending Again.
I don’t know if this means the recession is over, but according to recent data, layoffs have fallen to a two-year low, income is up and Americans are spending money. This is good news. “The flurry of...
View ArticleDeconstructing The Bush Tax Cut Debate
The debate over extending the Bush tax cuts is being misrepresented. Republicans claim that extending the tax cuts on the wealthy will have a stimulative impact on the economy, but the fact remains...
View ArticleObama Lost His Temper Today
President Obama got mad today. He’s mad at his critics on the left who are angry over the extension of Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. During a press conference today he shouted about...
View ArticleTax Cut Bill Contains $55 Billion in Industry Subsidies and Giveaways
The Washington Post’s Dan Eggen has a story today about the $858 billion tax-cut compromise hashed out between President Obama and his Republican colleagues last week. It’s wending its way through...
View ArticleKrugman: The Competition Myth
According to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, the Great Recession was a teachable moment for Americans to learn that unregulated markets are unstable. That’s not the only thing Krugman would like...
View ArticleVice President Biden Announces Six Year Plan to Build National High-Speed...
Philadelphia, PA – Vice President Joe Biden today announced a comprehensive plan that will help the nation reach President Obama’s goal of giving 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail...
View ArticleIs America the Next Rome?
The American political system is broken. The US Congress is incapable of passing any meaningful legislation to solve the nation’s most pressing problems. Therefore, the United States of America’s best...
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