BP is fighting to stop payments on claims to all those who lives they damaged because they claim that the Gulf is "recovering"?
You can't make up what passes for today's news...but they do anyway.
The depths to which our "4th Estate" has sunk is the result of a deliberate plan to obscure the differences between contrived drama and reality and it will be very difficult to turn around now that several generations...
Individual consequences of government debt limit
As the U.S. comes closer its $14.294 trillion debt ceiling, lawmakers faces a vote on boosting the debt limit. Congressional Republicans, however, are promising to oppose the increase unless it comes with guarantees of...
Take action to support MN Gov. Mark Dayton in this tense government shutdown, as he fights to fill a $5 billion budget gap by making the wealthy pay their fair share instead of allowing Republicans to squeeze it all out of the middle class once again.
There's so much hostility in our society and media...doesn't it just piss you off?!
There seems to be less interest among Americans in the validity of a political conflict, even if its cause is clearly dishonest, than who comes out on top as the winner.
In yesterday's New York Times, Charles Blow, one of my favourite opinion writers, wrote a brilliant and poignantly evocative exhortation to politicians of all stripes not to forget the poor in all their shenanigans and manouevres.
Blow called upon his...
You don't have to be crazy to believe that the same Republican Supply Side economics that destroyed our economy will magically fix it...but it helps.
I believe that socialism is the only system that we may subjugate ourselves to and still be able to call ourselves human and that society will slowly evolve into socialism, followed by the C-word, which I still have an unnatural reflex to.
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