Tag: budget

Reports: Kucinich on Obama’s Escalation: Great Speech, Bad Policy

Truthdig Podcast: Kucinich on Obama’s Escalation: Great Speech, Bad Policy

Reports: Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

Ear to the Ground: Obama Trims (Some) Fat with Weapons Bill

Ear to the Ground: A Cruel and Unusual Waste of Money

Ear to the Ground: Federal Deficit Hits Record $1.42 trillion

Ear to the Ground: House Votes to Pay Nation’s Bills, Tosses In a Bit for Itself

Reports: Homeland Security Spending Marked by Waste, Shoddy Oversight

Cartoons: State Budget Math

Reports: Read My Lips: We Need to Raise Taxes

Ear to the Ground: Come Rain, Sleet or E-Mail

Ear to the Ground: White House: No Tax Hikes for Middle Class

Reports: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

Ear to the Ground: California Cuts Budget Deal

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Vetting Sotomayor, Sizing Up the GOP

Ear to the Ground: California Sees Red

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Budget Deficit Climbs to Over $1 Trillion

Ear to the Ground: Senate Reworks Health Care Proposal

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Won’t Budge as California Nears Collapse

Ear to the Ground: California Attacks Budget Crisis With Make-Believe

Arts and Culture: A Strapped L.A. Won’t Pay for Laker Parade

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Aren’t Buying What Schwarzenegger’s Cutting

Reports: California’s Silent Big Spenders

Reports: Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids

A/V Booth: Bill Maher’s California Elegy

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Is Torture a Partisan Issue?

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama’s Big G-20 Debut, Bigger Budget

Ear to the Ground: Senate Gives Budget Plan the Go-Ahead

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Mega-Budget ’09

Reports: Daring to Utter the T Word

Reports: The Right’s Twisted Blame Game

Reports: Inside Bush’s War on Birth Control

Reports: Obama’s Fight Against the Politics of Evasion

Ear to the Ground: Budget Deficit Hits $1.8 Trilly

Reports: Our Justified Populist Rage

Reports: From Frozen Minds, a ‘Spending Freeze’

Reports: Socialism Without a Soul

Cartoons: Practice Course

Reports: If Only Obama Were as Radical as They Say

Reports: The Rebirth of Education

Reports: America’s New Trajectory

Reports: Redistributionist, and That’s Just Fine

A/V Booth: Obama Pushes His Budget Plan

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama’s Budget, Jindal’s Debut

Reports: Government’s Long Night May Be Ending

Reports: Bill Redux?

Reports: At Last, Accepting Some Clues From Across the Pond

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Thought About Ditching the GOP

Ear to the Ground: Obama Takes Another Crack at Commerce

Reports: ‘Entitlements’ Take a Bum Rap

Ear to the Ground: Obama Gets Aggressive on Cutting the Deficit

Reports: Good Money After Bad

Ear to the Ground: California Plans to Fire 20,000 Workers

Reports: Bad News From America’s Top Spy

Reports: A Hand on History

Ear to the Ground: Pols Sink or Swim With the Stimulus

Reports: A Team of Zombies

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Reports: Howard Dean Should Have Been Obama’s Pick All Along

Reports: Stimulus Skeptics Wrong (Again)

Ear to the Ground: And Now for the Stimulus Tug of War

Reports: Economic Policy That Might Actually Work? Who Knew?

Ear to the Ground: Cabinet Confirmations: 7 and Counting

Reports: The Shame Beneath Inaugural Hoopla

Reports: So, Just Who Is the Guy Taking the Oath?

Reports: The Party of No Ideas

Reports: Learning From Clinton’s Mistakes

Reports: The Politician in Chief Works for a Stimulus

Reports: Now Is No Time for Phony Thrift

Ear to the Ground: Obama Ponders the Third Rail

Cartoons: California Budget Begging

Reports: FDR Prolonged the Depression? Really?

Reports: Why I Am a Socialist

Reports: Economic Death and Millionaire Taxes

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by Bush’s Farewell Tour

A/V Booth: Schwarzenegger Wants It All

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Governor Gets Tough on Soft Drinks

Reports: Rep. Dennis Kucinich on His Battle With the Banks

Reports: Redrawing the Political Map

Arts and Culture: NPR Catches Layoff Fever

Ear to the Ground: For Pentagon, More Wal-Mart, Less Gucci

Reports: The Beauty of Free Money

Reports: Breathing New Life Into Health Care

Ear to the Ground: Report Fails 49 States on College Affordability

Reports: Obama’s Shrewd Choices

Reports: Bush’s Hoover Impression Flirts With Depression

Ear to the Ground: Obama Looking to Trim Budget Waste

Reports: Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone

Ear to the Ground: Military Spending ‘Not Sustainable’

Reports: The Ghost in Obama’s White House

Reports: McCain Banking on a Confederacy of Dunces

Reports: The GOP Identity Crisis

Reports: This Is No Time for Specifics

Ear to the Ground: Economic Crisis Goes to California

Reports: A Special Prosecutor for Wall Street

Reports: Getting the Bailout Right

Reports: Fiddling While Wall Street Burns

Reports: Two Bridges to Nowhere

Cartoons: Palin and Pork

Ear to the Ground: Palin Cut Funds for Teen Moms

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger May Stay Home

Ear to the Ground: Cutting Classes to Cut Costs

Ear to the Ground: Iraq’s $79-Billion Windfall

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Slashes Wages

Ear to the Ground: From Surplus to a Record Deficit

Ear to the Ground: Early Estimates of Bailout Range to $100 Billion

Reports: The House That Gramm Built

Ear to the Ground: Gorbachev Scolds Obama and McCain

Ear to the Ground: Calif. Mandates Car Stickers With Global Warming Scores

Ear to the Ground: Failing Rape Victims

Ear to the Ground: Congress’ Second Helping

Reports: Firing Congress

Reports: Indefensible Spending

Ear to the Ground: Defense Auditors Can’t Keep Up

Ear to the Ground: Struggling Families Feel Sting of Rising Food Prices

Ear to the Ground: The Democrats’ Lump of Coal

Reports: The Plague of Potomac Fever

Reports: McCainomics

Reports: The $3-Trillion War

A/V Booth: Can YOU Spend $3 Trillion Better Than Bush?

Ear to the Ground: FCC Cashes In on Spectrum Auction

Reports: Reagan Democrats

Ear to the Ground: Back to Work

Ear to the Ground: 1 in 100 American Adults in Jail

Reports: What the Times Didn’t Tell About McCain

Reports: No ‘Straight Talk’ on Iraq Cost

Reports: Homeland Insecurity

Reports: Ten Months Too Long

Reports: An Economic Bridge to Nowhere

Arts and Culture: Chalmers Johnson on the Myth of Free Trade

Ear to the Ground: Bush Bails on War Funding

Ear to the Ground: House Approves War Funds

Ear to the Ground: Senate Doles Out $70 Billion More for the Wars

Reports: The Promised Land

Reports: Cheering for Ron Paul

Reports: What Are We Fighting For?

Reports: A Faith-Based Boondoggle

Reports: Who Said Politics Was Fair?

Reports: Cashing In on Terror

Cartoons: The Same Attitude

Ear to the Ground: $2.4 Trillion to Keep the Wars Going

Reports: War Costs Spiral Out of Control

Ear to the Ground: Bush Wants Even More Money for the Wars

Reports: The Quickest Way to End the War

Reports: Bush Gets Tightfisted With Sick Kids

Cartoons: Dr. Bush

Reports: Bush the Saboteur

Reports: Biden One-Ups Bush

Reports: Bush Goes Down With the SCHIP

Ear to the Ground: Team Bush Wants $50 Billion More for ‘08 Military Budget

Reports: The Illusion of Progress in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Bush to Visit Congressional ATM

Ear to the Ground: The Next Cold War?

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Cave on Timetable

Ear to the Ground: White House ‘Strongly Opposes’ Extra Pay for Troops

Ear to the Ground: They Hate Us for Our Apples

Ear to the Ground: Bush Wants to Gut PBS Funding

A/V Booth: John Murtha: The Man With the Plan

Reports: Uncompassionate Conservative

Reports: Bush Budget Delivers the Bacon

Reports: The Budget Speaks Louder Than Pandering

Ear to the Ground: President Wants More Money for the War

Ear to the Ground: Foreign Adventures Force Drug War Cuts

Ear to the Ground: Find Out How Much the Iraq War Is Costing You

Ear to the Ground: Bush Flags Down Balanced Budget Bandwagon

Reports: Truthdiggers of the Week: Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes

Ear to the Ground: Condi: Still Drinking the Kool-Aid

Ear to the Ground: The Cost of War Mounts

Reports: Rep. Dennis Kucinch: No More Money for War on Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Congress Plans Iraq Victory Festivities

Ear to the Ground: Wanna Play the Budget Expectations Game?

Ear to the Ground: House Members To Sue Bush Over Budget Bill

Ear to the Ground: Spy Chief Draws Bipartisan Criticism

Ear to the Ground: Christian Coalition Shrinks as Debt Grows

Ear to the Ground: House Votes ‘No’ on Ports—‘Yes’ Is Likely on Star Wars

A/V Booth: Condi Rice Heckled by Antiwar Protester

Ear to the Ground: Bush Plan Would Raise Deficit by $1.2 Trillion

Ear to the Ground: ‘Total Information Awareness’ Lives On

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Plans $7-Billion Royalty Windfall to Oil Companies

Ear to the Ground: Bush Sneaks Social Security Privatization Into Budget

Reports: Take From the Poor, Give to the Military

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