www.politicususa.com
Among the Tea Partiers Newsweek uncovered begging for federal dollars, one name stood out. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor requested tens of millions of federal stimulus dollars to create jobs in his district.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Speaking Up for That ‘1 Percent’
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Balloon Juice: Paul Ryan explains that simply acknowledging America’s record income inequality constitutes class warfare.*
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Perry, Cain and Flat Earth Government By E.J. Dionne, Jr. —
It’s one of the strangest things in our politics: The only “big” ideas Republicans and conservatives seem to offer these days revolve around novel and sometimes bizarre ways of cutting taxes on rich people.
What Romney’s Religion Reveals About His Politics
By Joe Conason —
What does the career of the former Massachusetts governor tell us about the ideology of the LDS church—and what his personal beliefs may portend if he becomes the first Mormon in the Oval Office?
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It’s one of the strangest things in our politics: The only “big” ideas Republicans and conservatives seem to offer these days revolve around novel and sometimes bizarre ways of cutting taxes on rich people.
What Romney’s Religion Reveals About His Politics
By Joe Conason —
What does the career of the former Massachusetts governor tell us about the ideology of the LDS church—and what his personal beliefs may portend if he becomes the first Mormon in the Oval Office?
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Cain: If Al Qaeda Demanded It, I’d Consider Freeing Every Gitmo Prisoner For The Release Of An American Soldier
Be on the look out for a sharp increase in al Qaeda kidnappings in a Cain administration.
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Be on the look out for a sharp increase in al Qaeda kidnappings in a Cain administration.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
After Nearly Nine Years of War and Occupation, America to Withdraw All Troops From Iraq
by Tom Hayden
In a stunning victory for the American peace movement and Iraqi opponents of the US occupation, virtually all US troops will withdraw from Iraq by this December 31.
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by Tom Hayden
In a stunning victory for the American peace movement and Iraqi opponents of the US occupation, virtually all US troops will withdraw from Iraq by this December 31.
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Obama's Iraq promise comes true
His campaign was rooted in a pledge to bring the troops home, which he just announced will happen by year's end
by Steve Kornacki
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His campaign was rooted in a pledge to bring the troops home, which he just announced will happen by year's end
by Steve Kornacki
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Success in Libya
Obama chose the right course.
by David Ignatius
The GOP’s foreign policy gap
The candidates forget the rest of the world.
by Eugene Robinson
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Labor News and Notes Round-upBy Kenneth Quinnell
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Lost in the hubbub over Herman Cain’s love affair with the number 9 during last week’s Republican debate were some compelling observations by Rick Santorum about “the breakdown of the American family” and its relationship to poverty.
Rather than close the grossest loopholes and deductions exploited by billionaires, Republican politicians want to punish all those families living large on $300 a week by taxing them more.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
www.politicususa.com
Justice, is supposed to be honest, impartial, and above suspicion, but Clarence Thomas is none of those things.
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
So let’s see: The solution to large-scale abuses of the financial system, a breakdown of the private sector, extreme economic inequality and the failure of companies and individuals to invest and create jobs is—well, to give even more money and power to very wealthy people, to disable government and to trust those who got us into the mess to get us out of it.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 09, 2011
www.addictinginfo.org
The Tea Partiers insist that they obey the Constitution to the letter of the law and that their radical agenda embodies the Constitutional idea. But study the Constitution and you’ll see that these so-called Constitutional conservatives don’t love the law – they’re trying to distort and rewrite the Constitution to subvert it to their wishes.
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Thursday, October 06, 2011
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Russ Feingold endorses Occupy Wall Street: “This will make the Tea Party look like ... a tea party.”
www.washingtonpost.com“This will make the Tea Party look like ... a tea party.”
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Monday, October 03, 2011
Kochs: Iran Arms Sales
Koch Industries — in addition to being involved in improper payments to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East — has sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism.
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Koch Industries — in addition to being involved in improper payments to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East — has sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism.
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Sunday, October 02, 2011
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