SHARE        Sunday, September 23, 2012
Romney's Backers, Romney's Brain: The Money, the Thinking, the Plan Who are the powerful people Mitt Romney represents? They're the Bookies. They build nothing, create nothing, contribute nothing. They gamble on the futures of others and don't care who wins or loses. They're radical, and they're angry. And, increasingly, they're in control. And they'll be dead and gone before the coming generations pay the greatest price of their success.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 15, 2012
Fat Pythons And Hungry Humans: Last Week's Real Economic Story The government has the right rockets at its disposal. Here are two of the biggest: It can hire more employees, and it can finance more infrastructure work. But our leaders aren't willing to fire those rockets. They'd rather pretend that tax cuts will magically do tomorrow what they haven't done yesterday or today.

SHARE        Thursday, September 13, 2012
When It Comes To The DoJ And Wall Street, Don't Call It "Justice" Why is the Attorney General, along with others in the Administration, arguing against indicting Wall Street bankers When there's a preponderance of evidence suggesting a crime was committed, it's the defense attorney's job to argue there wasn't - or that it will be too hard to obtain a conviction. It's the defense attorney who usually meets with reporters to explain why the case won't hold up.

SHARE        Sunday, September 9, 2012
Cap'n Mitt and the Pirates of Cracker Bay The trail grew warmer when we learned about the yacht party thrown by a Florida developer for "bundlers" who had raised $1 million or more for Mitt Romney's campaign. ABC reports that more than 50 people were entertained aboard the Cracker Bay, a yacht flying the ensign of the Cayman Islands, where the American-owned vessel was registered. The boat shares its nationality with a big chunk of Mitt Romney's money.

SHARE        Friday, September 7, 2012
Silence is Golden: What Democrats Aren't Saying in Charlotte Wednesday night Bill Clinton rallied the crowd for Barack Obama. But he didn't criticize the Wall Street interests that financed his political career and made him wealthy once he left office. It was Clinton who rebuked Obama for using anti-hedge fund rhetoric to attack Mitt Romney. If you're campaigning as a liberal and don't want to limit your career opportunities, sometimes the best course is silence.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 31, 2012
Are Republicans 'Crazy?' Not If You Follow the Money Their opponents shouldn't be too quick to call Republicans "crazy." It makes more sense to employ that time-honored investigative principle: Follow the money. Sure, they've said crazy things -- in their speeches and in their official platform. But, crazy? Like a fox.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Why Is God Punishing the GOP With Storms? Three Wrath-Provoking Possibilities Heavy rain and wind is expected to buffet conventioneers this week... "They have taken crafty counsel against thy people...So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm." What's it going to take to get the party leadership's attention if this doesn't work? Locusts?

SHARE        Saturday, August 25, 2012
Banker Bill Harrison's Bogus Brief for (Broken) Big Banks The nation should be haunted by this image of zombie-like bankers waltzing, St. Vitus-like, to the eternal music of greed. Their banks died, revived only by the electrical jolts of government buyouts. And they'll die a thousand deaths, leaving the rest of us to disinter them and revive them once more so they can prey on us again.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 17, 2012
On Social Security, Say It IS So, Joe! There's a highly-funded, highly misinformed, highly misleading manufactured "consensus" in Washington around the idea that cuts in Social Security benefits need to be cut. They trade in a small but widely disseminated body of lies, and they're going to fight this with everything they've got.

SHARE        Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Happy Birthday, Social Security! Now About Your Gift ... Despite all the scare talk, no program in US history is on a firmer financial footing than Social Security. It's a stand-alone program which isn't allowed to contribute to the overall government deficit, and is absolutely solvent until the mid-2030's.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 12, 2012
Attorney General to U.S. -- Nothing to See On Wall Street, Folks, Just Move Along Eric Holder says that his department and this administration are doing everything they can to prosecute Wall Street fraud and make sure it doesn't happen again. There's only one thing that makes that statement hard to believe: It's a troublesome little thing called "facts."

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 6, 2012
Happy 151st Birthday, Federal Income Tax! The rich will get even richer under the Romney/GOP plan, while the rest of us pick up their tab -- again. Their plan's an economy killer -- who'll buy anything anymore, except them? -- which would starve the government of funds needed to do its job and repair their last mess. How selfish. How reckless. How...un-American.

(14 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 5, 2012
Hey, Sarah Palin! Some "Marxists" Here Want a Word With You For all their hollerin', the radicals on the right can't point to a single statement by Warren and Obama that isn't objectively and literally true. Has any factory owner ever transported his goods to market on roads the rest of us didn't pay for? Hired workers the rest of us didn't educate? Of course not. But when that's pointed out they pivot to their next gambit: Obama and Warren are "Marxists."

(14 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 2, 2012
"F" The Bureaucracy! The White House Can Help Homeowners Right Now Obama can make the moral case for America's homeowners in a clear, strong voice. So far he hasn't done that -- partly because some key members of his team buy into the unfair notion that underwater homeowners, unlike Wall Street bankers, don't deserve to be helped.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 23, 2012
The Minimum Wage Is So Low That It's Immoral -- and Foolish Under current wage levels, neither parent has the option of taking care of the children at home. To do so would be to to doom them to a life of poverty -- a life which, among other things, has been shown to damage both their health and their earning ability for life. Sometimes both parents are working and the family is trapped in poverty anyway.

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 10, 2012
As Evidence Mounts, DC Insiders Worry About Holder's Inaction On Wall Street Crime Without criminal investigations and indictments, bankers will continue to commit crimes. The LIBOR scandal, which implicates a number of leading banks, proves that. The Justice Department's inaction is putting the world economy at risk by allowing bankers to continue their reckless and illegal behavior.

SHARE        Friday, July 6, 2012
Is Obama's Corporate-Friendly Approach Really "How Liberals Win"? A Romney Presidency and increased Republican control on the Hill would endanger much they hold dear, including representative democracy, our social safety net, and workplace rights. Wherever the truth lies, the road ahead is clear: We can't allow the radical right to take power this year. But we need to fight for results, not politicians, by building a mobilized and truly independent citizens' movement.

SHARE        Wednesday, July 4, 2012
The "Younger" Games: Phony Age War Strikes Again ... and Again ... and Again A government system which encourages oldsters to sacrifice themselves for youngsters -- and even uses their Social Security numbers? All presumably accompanied by propaganda campaigns encouraging seniors to give up their benefits and stigmatizing those who don't? If you're not a senior yet, it means you still have the chance to become the star of somebody's dystopian science-fiction novel.

(5 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 4, 2012
It's Time to Re-Declare Independence - Politically, Economically and Spiritually That's how our country was born -- in dreams. That's how it will be reborn into a brighter future, if we hold fast. They say idealism isn't practical. Actually, it's the most practical political force in the world. The idealistic dream of freedom and independence has transformed the entire globe. It changes lives. It changes hearts. It changes .... everything.

SHARE        Friday, June 29, 2012
Don't Kid Yourself. It's Still a Corporate Court. Here Are 10 Lessons From CEO Roberts The majority on this Supreme Court is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corporate America. Call it SCOTUS - Inc., and it's brought to you by the same fine folks that gave you Citizens United and Bush v. Gore. John Roberts is its CEO, not its chief justice.