Republicans Next Attack on the Middle Class: Pay Wall Street First If Debt...
Screwing the middle class has become a Republican badge of honor. Republicans are tripping over themselves trying to find more creative ways to do it. The low-hanging fruit of suppressing their wages,...
View ArticleExorcising the Demons of Park Avenue
Is JP Morgan Chase ignoring homeowners’ pleas for help because they feel they’ve done enough already? Or that they just don’t care? Clergy members in the New York Metropolitan Area offered a new...
View ArticleHalf a century of work and pay in an hour’s time
Originally posted at my own site. Very few things are certain in life other than life and death. In the middle we work roughly 50 years of our life and pay taxes. That much we know for sure. For the...
View ArticleSome Persons More Equal Than Others
As cities around the country trade notes on how to crack down on peaceful Occupy protesters, a chant goes up: ‘Who do you protect? Who do you serve?’ As the empire strikes back, Chris Hayes offers a...
View ArticleEven The Language Is Corrupt
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH Immediately and Henceforth, Naked aggression shall be called “preemptive war” Propaganda shall be called “news” State kidnapping shall be called...
View ArticleFor-Profit Education Defends Its “Beachhead”
From the New York Times, another example of what happens when education goes from being a vocation to being a for-profit industry: WASHINGTON — Last year, the Obama administration vowed to stop...
View ArticleTrans-actional probe
The Republican War on Women demonstrates their oh-so-conservative decision to govern by the precautionary principle. Small-government conservatives have decided it is government’s job to ensure that...
View ArticleU.S. Justice: Is The Joke On You?
Here’s a neat get-out-of-jail trick. The secret is it doesn’t usually work for ordinary crimes by flesh-and-blood people — for smoking marijuana or selling food stamps for rent money, for example. No,...
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