Who is our economy for, anyway? In the United States We, the People are supposedly in charge and our country and economy are supposed to be managed for the public good. But that isn’t how things have been working out, is it? Let’s take a quick look at America over the last few decades. We [...]
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It doesn’t matter whether or not you believe in God or which faith you follow if you do. Here’s a question worth asking this holiday season: Would Jesus be an Occupy demonstrator? The Bible suggests that He would. Radio Free Heaven A few years ago I was driving through the back roads of Alabama listening [...]
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Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. The fact that his conclusion and headline are correct doesn’t mean that there not enough wrong in this column by Charles Krauthammer in today’s Washington Post to put together a whole syllabus for a semester-long seminar rather than just a quick blog post. For example, Krauthammer saying that [...]
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Today Politifact Editor Bill Adair probably ruined his outlet’s chances of ever being taken seriously again as an objective debunker of political spin. What a shame. There’s a glaring need for somebody to play that role, and Politifact was in a unique position to fill it. Its parent newspaper is owned by a foundation, which [...]
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From the Speakers Office: Bipartisan legislation extending payroll tax relief for working Americans will now include a fix secured by House Republicans that ensures small businesses, already struggling in the current economy, won’t face added confusion and compliance costs. Without this fix, employers would have been hit with a costly new reporting burden that independent [...]
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Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: The Next Fight For The 99% OurFuture.Org’s Isaiah J. Poole: “Consider House Speaker John Boehner’s U-turn on a temporary extension [...]
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Consider House Speaker John Boehner’s U-turn on a temporary extension of a payroll tax holiday a temporary retreat. The tea-party Republicans who lead Boehner show no signs of actually moderating their agenda, and that will make next year’s fight to continue the payroll tax for a full year no less intense than this week’s nail-biter. [...]
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It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for the Republican party in the run-up to 2012. First, the party had a literal embarrassment of riches, in the form of a field chock-full of candidates with something for just about every major faction and minor fringe the GOP has cobbled into a conservative coalition. Then, [...]
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Yesterday, a chief House Republican talking point was they really, really, really wanted a compromise on a payroll tax cut extension, and were “willing to work over the holidays” to get one. Then, right after voting to ignore the Senate-passed bipartisan compromise and demand re-opening negotiations, most of them left town. W. Post reports: As [...]
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For “renaldomacias” on Twitter, $40 extra a paycheck means “buying a full bag of groceries OR filling the car with gas to get to work. Without that $40, we’ll be doing neither.” BaldEmotions writes, “#40dollars a paycheck through the entire year is what it costs us to send our daughter to public preschool.” Fink820 sent [...]
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