The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives
Remember the video of the guy in the "pimp costume" who got advice from ACORN employees on how to run his prostitution ring? Turns out the whole story was just a lie, a doctored-video smear job on an...
View ArticleBlock Fast Track To Fix Or Stop The Trans-Pacific Partnership Corporate Takeover
You know how big-company lobbyists get some states to pass laws that block cities and counties from doing something about problems like tobacco or guns? Well there is a "trade" treaty called the...
View ArticleNorth Carolina State Senator Calls 'Moral Monday' Protesters 'Moral Morons'
"The appeal for each Moral Monday has been the same: urging legislators to govern for the good of the whole, rather than for the wealthy."— Rev. William Barber.Since April, North Carolina citizens have...
View ArticleNot Sexist Summers, Please
Larry Summers for the Fed? Seriously? There are better choices for Federal Reserve chair; in particular, Janet Yellen is more than qualified and would do a great job.(PS if you are reading this --...
View ArticleWill House Republicans Govern Or Destroy The Government They Hate?
The parents of the Republican Party are away for the summer and the Tea-nagers are ransacking the House. But is it really a surprise that people who hate government itself would act to destroy...
View ArticleImagine Democracy
"We the People." How many of us have really thought through the implications of these three words? Can people today even imagine a government that is on the side of We the People, instead of being...
View ArticleWhy Do We The People Have To Read TPP On Wikileaks?
We the People finally get to read one chapter of the 29-chapter Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "trade" agreement. If this agreement becomes law it will fundamentally alter the relationship between our...
View ArticleCorporations Owe Hundreds Of Billions Of Taxes But GOP Goes After Federal...
Congress is again fighting over the budget with Republicans now demanding cuts in federal employee benefits. Is this really about the budget? Or is it about destroying government? Meanwhile hundreds of...
View ArticleDid The Stimulus Work? See For Yourself
Did the "stimulus" work? Republicans claim it was a failure, a waste of money, and was the reason the deficit soared. So let's see what happened. And I do mean "see."
View ArticleWho Will Fight To Help The Unemployed?
At the beginning of November, the poor went over the "Hunger Cliff" as Food Stamps were cut. Now long-term unemployment assistance will run out at the end of December. Regular people think the...
View ArticleNAFTA At 20: 1 Million Lost Jobs, 580% Increase In Trade Deficit
Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch has issued a new report, NAFTA at 20: One Million U.S. Jobs Lost, Mass Displacement and Instability in Mexico, Record Income Inequality, Scores of Corporate Attacks...
View ArticleAre ‘Globalization’s’ Costs Inevitable?
You hear often that we "live in a global world now." You hear that "globalization" means we have to drop our wages and standards to match those in impoverished, Third-World countries. You hear that the...
View ArticleNational Media Blackout Of Saturday's Huge Moral March In Raleigh
A crowd estimated exceed 80,000 showed up to march to protest Republican policies in Raleigh, N.C. Saturday. But you wouldn't know it if you live outside the area.
View ArticleNo Fast Track To TPP: Fix NAFTA First
The big corporations and the Obama administration are trying to push through a giant new trade treaty that gives corporations even more power, and which will send even more jobs, factories, industries...
View ArticleTell Your Member of Congress To Vote For The 'Better Off Budget'
Tell your member of Congress (MOC) to vote for the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) "Better Off Budget' (BOB). The public needs to know that this progressive approach addresses so many of the...
View ArticleDemocrats Who Move Right Lose Elections – There Is No “Center”
Mainstream Democratic campaign consultants and pollsters typically tell candidates they should "move to the right" and campaign to the "center" with positions that are "between" the "left" and the...
View ArticleRepublican Strategy: Obstruct, Blame Democrats For Obstruction's Damage
The Republican strategy is to set the stage for the election by obstructing everything. Then campaign against Democrats because things are not getting better.
View ArticleWill We Let Congress Hand Billion$ More To Big Corporations?
This one is simply outrageous. Corporations currently owe up to $700 billion in unpaid, "deferred" taxes. The country needs the money - partly because these companies owe so much in taxes. Which of the...
View ArticleA Simplified Way To Tax Multinational Corporations
The idea is to tax corporations based on where sales are made, not where profits are reported. If a company has 50 percent of its sales in the U.S., the U.S. would tax 50 percent of its worldwide profits.
View ArticleAre Republicans Backed By China? House Republicans Block Critical 'Make It In...
Far-right groups said that the American government securing necessary materials for American companies to manufacture is "interference with the free market." Seriously, are they funded by China?
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