Plutocracy Reborn
A half-century ago, thoughtful Americans considered the Gilded Age ancient history. By the 1950s, robber baron fortunes no longer dominated - or dazzled - America's political or economic landscape....
View ArticleAssaulting Unions: Michigan GOP bill would jail teachers that send...
Michigan educators could face a year in prison for conducting union or political business over public school e-mail servers under a bill advancing in Lansing. State House Bill 4052 was reported out of...
View ArticleMontana Gov. Brian Schweitzer Will Seek Health Care Law Waiver To Establish...
As ThinkProgress previously reported, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) made history earlier this year when he signed into law legislation that would make his state the first state to lay the groundwork...
View ArticleCharles Koch to Friedrich Hayek: Use Social Security!
There’s right-wing hypocrisy, and then there’s this: Charles Koch, billionaire patron of free-market libertarianism, privately championed the benefits of Social Security to Friedrich Hayek, the...
View ArticleArab Spring, American Fall......Whatever you want to call it..... Predatory...
The whole world has had it with Predatory Capitalism. First signs of social unrest in America now taking place on Wall Street, and is awakening 99% of Americans that see yes we can do something about...
View ArticleWho Increased The Debt??? Source: US Dept of The Treasury
http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/ Where was all of that outrage before? added by: WakeUpPeople 44 comments
View ArticleClarence Thomas Should Be Investigated For Nondisclosure, Democratic...
WASHINGTON -- Democratic lawmakers on Thursday called for a federal investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' failure to report hundreds of thousands of dollars on annual financial...
View ArticleCavalry Arrives for Occupy Wall Street
Many New York City Unions have thrown their support behind the Occupy Wall Street protests. Cenk Uygur discusses which unions have joined the cause and future rallies. added by: pghtytfan 0 comments
View ArticleSchools Say No To Tea Party's Constitution Lessons
Earlier this year, tea party groups sparked a bit of an uproar when they announced plans to pressure public schools into teaching their version of constitutional history during the federally mandated...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg Claims ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters Are Targeting Bankers...
Cue the violins.... For 13 days, hundreds of demonstrators have encamped themselves on Wall Street in New York City, hoping to call attention to the financial sector’s greed and inequities in the...
View ArticleColumnist offers to fund Drug Tests for Florida lawmakers
Posted on 09.29.11 By David Edwards Categories: Featured, Nation Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Wednesday that he would be willing to pay for drug tests for the Florida...
View ArticleBlackwater now XE looking to return to Iraq
By David Edwards Friday, September 30th, 2011 -- 11:59 am Four years after Blackwater's license to operate in Iraq was revoked over the killing of 17 Iraqis, Xe Services LLC -- the company formerly...
View ArticlePapantonio: Time for Democrats To Fight Back
A few weeks ago, Democrats lost two House seats in special elections that should have been a lock for the Democratic Party. These losses, along with the falling approval rate of President Obama, show...
View ArticleUndocumented Pregnant Women Forced to Give Birth While Shackled in Front of...
Pregnant women in Arizona and Tennessee were detained and forced to give birth while shackled to their hospital beds because they couldn’t produce identification. Just when you thought the nationwide...
View Article22nd richest person on the Hill, Denny Rehberg, now bullying kids for their...
"Rep. Dennis Rehberg (R-MT), who’s expected to face Sen. John Tester (D) in the Montana Senate race next year, is worried that some families who receive federally-subsidized lunches may be gaming the...
View ArticleRomney secretly and illegally funded Perry
It might be hard to imagine after last week’s GOP presidential slugfest, but there was a time not too long ago when a group headed by Mitt Romney quietly—and a judge says illegally—helped Rick Perry’s...
View ArticleKeith wants you to wake up (VIDEO)
Me too. Let's do this. Never give up on the American Dream. added by: WakeUpPeople 31 comments
View ArticleWATCH LIVE: the Take Back the American Dream Conference has arrived
It’s finally here – join us at the Take Back the American Dream conference right here on RebuildtheDream.com. For those of you who couldn’t make it, Free Speech TV will be livestreaming the whole...
View Article11.37am: This is good. The New York Observer has posted a video of "an...
11.37am: This is good. The New York Observer has posted a video of "an interview Fox News filmed, but doesn't want you to see". added by: Lisayou 104 comments
View ArticleSupreme Court lets Police search text messages without a warrant
By Reuters Monday, October 3, 2011 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a ruling that the police can search text messages from an arrested criminal suspect’s cell phone without...
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