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By Cormac McCarthy
By Dan Baum
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the House votes to avoid a government shutdown and Gabrielle Giffords makes a plea for gun control at the place where she was shot two years ago.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By Ivo Mijnssen — Russia’s weapons merchants are back in the international limelight and the industry is booming.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By Robert Reich — On Tuesday the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 14,270. The stock market is basically back to where it was in 2000, while corporate earnings have doubled since then. Yet the real median wage is now 8 percent below what it was then and unemployment remains sky-high. Why is the stock market doing so well, while most Americans are doing so poorly? Here are four reasons.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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The Walton family, better known as the Walmart heirs, have invested millions in trying to privatize Los Angeles public schools; perhaps the true culprit of the sequester is President Obama; meanwhile, the former pope’s resignation can be seen as a sound surrender rather than a cowardly abdication. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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Larry Wright, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By William Pfaff — Switzerland just had a referendum in which it voted to give company and bank shareholders veto rights over the salaries, bonuses and overall compensation packages of senior executives and board directors.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a major development in the confirmation hearing of John Brennan and Jeb Bush flip-flops on immigration reform once more.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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A bizarre provision of the House Republicans’ short-term budget bill would strip ACORN of all federal funds even though 1) the government already withdrew all federal money from the organization and 2) the group no longer exists.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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By Robert Reich — I’d make clear to the American people that they made a choice in 2012 but that right-wing House Republicans have been blocking that choice, and the only way to implement that choice is for Congress to pass the Build America’s Future Act.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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If President Obama follows the example of Gov. Jerry Brown in California, he can use devastating budget cuts to deal conservatives a crushing blow, argues David Sirota.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the White House weighing in on whether cellphones should be locked and Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce legislation to raise the minimum wage.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough are taking their feud over the country’s massive debt and lackluster economy to television.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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By Juan Cole — The “sequester” is actually, of course, the American form of austerity, or cutbacks in government spending during a recession. Austerity, or stingy government in Europe has kept employment extremely depressed compared to what it would have been with government stimulus, as Paul Krugman argues.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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By Robert Reich — With the sequester now beginning, I find myself thinking about Robert F. Kennedy—and 46 years ago when I was an intern in his Senate office. 1967 was a difficult time for the nation. America was deeply split over civil rights and the Vietnam War. Many of our cities were burning. The war was escalating.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including John Roberts being called out for a big error in the Voting Rights Act case and former NBA star Dennis Rodman defends his “good friend” Kim Jong Un.
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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As Democrats and Republicans haggle over the severity of the budget cuts, “Saturday Night Live” took the opportunity to explain how exactly the sequester could affect you—or at least, it mocked the possibilities on its latest show.
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Sequestration is only the start. What the tea party set out to do was not simply change Washington but eviscerate the U.S. government—“drown it in the bathtub,” in the words of their guru Grover Norquist.
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
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Braced for automatic budget cuts that he described as “dumb” and painful, the president said Friday, “I’m not a dictator” and “if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say ‘I need to go to catch a plane,’ I can’t have Secret Service block the doorway, right?”
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — I have been working at home for most of my life. Naturally, I’m interested in the controversy generated by Marissa Mayer, the new boss at Yahoo, when she ordered all that company’s employees to report to a regular company office.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Indebted America is in danger of turning into destitute Greece, or so congressional Republicans and conservative commentators have been warning us for years now. For many reasons, this is an absurd comparison—but it may not always be quite so ridiculous if Washington’s advocates of austerity get their way.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain —
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a two-time Truthdigger of the Week, demonstrated once again why big banks and Wall Street want to keep their distance from her when she took on Ben Bernanke during his semiannual appearance before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s warning about the sequester cuts and a Michigan Republican lawmaker’s latest attempt to rig the vote.
Posted on Feb 25, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 25, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including one lawmaker’s efforts to ensure corporations can vote and Michelle Obama teams up with Jimmy Fallon for the “Evolution of Mom’s Dancing.”
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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Meet the major banks’ newest partner: payday lenders, the owners of those check cashing stores that offer short-term loans with interest rates that sometimes exceed 500 percent.
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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