Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Andrew Cuomo and the Spirit of Occupy
How Occupy Wall Street made Andrew Cuomo act less like Chris Christie.
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
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How Occupy Wall Street made Andrew Cuomo act less like Chris Christie.
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Friday, December 09, 2011
All the G.O.P.’s Gekkos
In getting to the truth about those wealthy “job creators” the Republicans aim to protect, the ’80s film “Wall Street” seems more relevant than ever. by Paul Krugman
Thursday, December 08, 2011
www.addictinginfo.org
Ron Paul is one of those politicians who says no for a living. As a representative of Texas, Paul has surprisingly voted against quite a few pieces of legislation that would shock many Americans.
thinkprogress.org
Mitt Romney clarified his plan to partially privatize the Medicare program during an interview with the Washington Examiner’s editorial board Wednesday morning, suggesting that he would allow Congress to vote on the amount of “premium support” credits (or vouchers) seniors receive to buy health care...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Saturday, December 03, 2011
www.forbes.com
Image by AFP via @daylife I have long argued that the impact of the Affordable Care Act is not nearly as big of a deal as opponents would have you believe. At the end of the day, the law is - in the main - little more than a successful effort [...]
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Friday, December 02, 2011
thinkprogress.org
Anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist, the president of Americans For Tax Reform and author of the radical anti-tax pledge that has played a significant role in hamstringing budget and deficit-reduction negotiations, has said that it is unacceptable for those who have signed his pledge to vote in favor of any tax increase. But now that President Obama and congressional Democrats are backing a tax cut aimed at stimulating economic growth, Norquist has changed his tune.
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Thursday, December 01, 2011
The Republicans' Farcical Candidates: A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses - SPIEGEL ONLINE -
www.spiegel.deThe US Republican race is dominated by ignorance, lies and scandals. The current crop of candidates have shown such a basic lack of knowledge that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein. The Grand Old Party is ruining the entire country's reputation.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
The Iran-contra scandal, 25 years later
By Peter Kornbluh
In 1990s, U.S. prosecutors assessed "criminal liabilty" of Reagan, George H.W. Bush.
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By Peter Kornbluh
In 1990s, U.S. prosecutors assessed "criminal liabilty" of Reagan, George H.W. Bush.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War
by Juan Cole
What led comfortable, bright, middle-class students to join the Occupy protest movement against income inequality and big-money politics in the first place?
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by Juan Cole
What led comfortable, bright, middle-class students to join the Occupy protest movement against income inequality and big-money politics in the first place?
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Realism and Compassion: Unacceptable in Today’s GOP
By Joe Conason —
Tasteless and questionable as it was for CNN to “co-sponsor” a Republican presidential debate with a pair of right-wing Washington think-tanks, at least the branding was accurate.
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By Joe Conason —
Tasteless and questionable as it was for CNN to “co-sponsor” a Republican presidential debate with a pair of right-wing Washington think-tanks, at least the branding was accurate.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailout:
by Mike Taibbi
Had a quick piece of news I wanted to call attention to, in light of the recent developments at Zuccotti Park. For all of those who say the protesters have it wrong, and don’t really have a cause worth causing public unrest over, consider this story, sent to me by a friend on the Hill.
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by Mike Taibbi
Had a quick piece of news I wanted to call attention to, in light of the recent developments at Zuccotti Park. For all of those who say the protesters have it wrong, and don’t really have a cause worth causing public unrest over, consider this story, sent to me by a friend on the Hill.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
The Republicans Aren’t Funny, They’re Scary
By Bill Boyarsky — Unfortunately, the media's fascination with antics has diverted attention from what the Republicans would do if they win.
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By Bill Boyarsky — Unfortunately, the media's fascination with antics has diverted attention from what the Republicans would do if they win.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
www.huffingtonpost.com
On Tuesday, Congress decided that pizza is a vegetable. I have to imagine that this news instilled confusion in many Americans, as many Americans are (a) familiar with pizza, (b) familiar with vegetables and (c) sane.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
“The Stupid Party.”
by Paul Begala
Republicans used to admire intelligence. But now they’re dumbing themselves down.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
The GOP’s Message Problem
By Eugene Robinson —
This should be the Republicans’ election to lose. They seem well on their way.
New ‘Mature’ Newt Is Just Same Old Gingrich
By Joe Conason —
All politicians lie, but Gingrich specializes in a brand of self-puffing fantasy.
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By Eugene Robinson —
This should be the Republicans’ election to lose. They seem well on their way.
New ‘Mature’ Newt Is Just Same Old Gingrich
By Joe Conason —
All politicians lie, but Gingrich specializes in a brand of self-puffing fantasy.
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The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For
By Robert Scheer — In the pantheon of billionaires without shame, Michael Bloomberg, the Wall Street banker-turned-business-press-lord-turned-mayor, is now secure at the top.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
'Impartial' Supreme Court Justices Raise Money for Opponents of Health Care Law
by Bob Edgar
Suppose you were party to a lawsuit and you learned that the judge handling your case was hobnobbing with lawyers on the other side and helping to raise money for a group dedicated to defeating you in court?
Monday, November 14, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Penn State Riots About White Men Not Liking to Be Held Accountable
By Mike Elk
If, like me, you scanned the crowds rioting at Penn State last night after the announcement of the firing of Joe Paterno, you may have noticed that nearly all the people there were white men. The riots were about white men not liking to be held accountable.
As a native Pennsylvanian, I never once considered attending Penn State University. Penn State always seemed like a place full of cliquish white people recalling their glory years of making fun of the dorky kids in high school. More progressive white people and people of color went to big city state schools like Pitt or Temple while whiter, more conservative types tended to dominate the settings of the rural, fraternity-heavy Penn State campus.
At the center of Penn State’s conservative culture stood Joe Paterno -- who frequently campaigned and fundraised for conservative politicians throughout Pennsylvania. As my friend sportswriter Dave Zirin points out, Penn State was a company town and football was the company that funded Penn State. Home football games attracted 100,000 people per game. Each year the program pumped a whopping $59 million into the poor rural economy of the surrounding area, from the sales of food to buying hotel rooms to the selling of sports gears, and created $50 million in pure profit that could be distributed to other programs at the university. In addition, Penn State football fostered large alumni donations as football games fostered strong bonds with graduates. To many Pennsylvanians, Joe Paterno represented Penn State and all it stood for.
Old, conservative white men around the state revered the football coach who stayed on well past his prime into his eighties. Paterno stayed on when others told him he was wrong not to change his old ways, well after his coaching seemed ineffective and his team’s record suffered. Paterno’s perseverance in the face of his deficiencies was a beacon of hope for many white men in Pennsylvania who felt their power challenged by liberals and people of color seeking to change their ways.
That's why I paid attention to the crowd rioting on television at Penn State last night. The firing of Joe Paterno upset the natural order that white men like Joe Paterno could rule not based on merit -- as Paterno’s coaching deficiencies showed -- but because white men always had.
As a Pennsylvanian, I could not be more ashamed of Penn State. This weekend I will instead be rooting for the University of California-Berkeley Golden Bears. There students participating in OccupyCal bravely faced police attacks for peaceably assembling, at the same moment Penn State white males attacked police over the firing of an 84-year-old football coach who enabled a child rapist.
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By Mike Elk
If, like me, you scanned the crowds rioting at Penn State last night after the announcement of the firing of Joe Paterno, you may have noticed that nearly all the people there were white men. The riots were about white men not liking to be held accountable.
As a native Pennsylvanian, I never once considered attending Penn State University. Penn State always seemed like a place full of cliquish white people recalling their glory years of making fun of the dorky kids in high school. More progressive white people and people of color went to big city state schools like Pitt or Temple while whiter, more conservative types tended to dominate the settings of the rural, fraternity-heavy Penn State campus.
At the center of Penn State’s conservative culture stood Joe Paterno -- who frequently campaigned and fundraised for conservative politicians throughout Pennsylvania. As my friend sportswriter Dave Zirin points out, Penn State was a company town and football was the company that funded Penn State. Home football games attracted 100,000 people per game. Each year the program pumped a whopping $59 million into the poor rural economy of the surrounding area, from the sales of food to buying hotel rooms to the selling of sports gears, and created $50 million in pure profit that could be distributed to other programs at the university. In addition, Penn State football fostered large alumni donations as football games fostered strong bonds with graduates. To many Pennsylvanians, Joe Paterno represented Penn State and all it stood for.
Old, conservative white men around the state revered the football coach who stayed on well past his prime into his eighties. Paterno stayed on when others told him he was wrong not to change his old ways, well after his coaching seemed ineffective and his team’s record suffered. Paterno’s perseverance in the face of his deficiencies was a beacon of hope for many white men in Pennsylvania who felt their power challenged by liberals and people of color seeking to change their ways.
That's why I paid attention to the crowd rioting on television at Penn State last night. The firing of Joe Paterno upset the natural order that white men like Joe Paterno could rule not based on merit -- as Paterno’s coaching deficiencies showed -- but because white men always had.
As a Pennsylvanian, I could not be more ashamed of Penn State. This weekend I will instead be rooting for the University of California-Berkeley Golden Bears. There students participating in OccupyCal bravely faced police attacks for peaceably assembling, at the same moment Penn State white males attacked police over the firing of an 84-year-old football coach who enabled a child rapist.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Yes, it is Wall Street’s fault
Bloomberg joins Republicans in claiming Congress "forced" banks to give bad loans. Don't buy the propaganda
By Gene Lyons
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Bloomberg joins Republicans in claiming Congress "forced" banks to give bad loans. Don't buy the propaganda
By Gene Lyons
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The shame of Penn State
The university buried a child sex scandal for years. And rioting students dare blame the media?
by Allen Barra
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Monday, November 07, 2011
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Saturday, November 05, 2011
The third Koch brother?
Facing charges Koch groups illegally funded his campaign, Herman Cain says he's their "brother from another mother"
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Facing charges Koch groups illegally funded his campaign, Herman Cain says he's their "brother from another mother"
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Oligarchy, American Style
by Paul Krugman
Inequality is back in the news, largely thanks to Occupy Wall Street, but with an assist from the Congressional Budget Office. And you know what that means: It’s time to roll out the obfuscators!
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by Paul Krugman
Inequality is back in the news, largely thanks to Occupy Wall Street, but with an assist from the Congressional Budget Office. And you know what that means: It’s time to roll out the obfuscators!
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Our ethically permissive Supreme CourtConservative justices wink at their own conflicts of interest
by Ronald Goldfarb
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Monday, October 31, 2011
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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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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