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By William H. Goetzmann
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 29, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
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The man who missed the $8 trillion housing bubble that was generating more than $1 trillion in wealth per year—and the collapse of which led to the current demand crisis that is strangulating the economy—was present at the formation of the corporate-backed Campaign to Fix the Debt.
Posted on Dec 29, 2012
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Many Dutch citizens are attempting to “de-baptize” themselves to protest Pope Benedict’s anti-gay marriage declarations; a national database of gun owners may have helped prevent the Newtown shooting; and although the media insist the president is giving in to the Republicans’ demands to make cuts to Social Security, Obama’s been trying to reduce it all along. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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Peter Broelman, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Are House Republicans—now summoned back to Washington by Speaker John Boehner—about to succumb to public pressure and save the nation from the fiscal cliff?
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a new warning on the debt ceiling from Timothy Geithner and why it’s probably not the most wonderful time of the year for President Obama and Congress.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Pete Souza/The White House
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By Robert Reich — President Obama is cutting his Christmas holiday short, returning to Washington for a last attempt at avoiding the fiscal cliff. But he’s running headlong into the Republican strategy of fanaticism.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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The government of the United Kingdom plans to allow copyrighted material to be copied for personal use; Julian Assange gives kudos to Bradley Manning from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London; meanwhile, South Africa’s ruling party has called for an official boycott of Israel. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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Noted crier John Boehner has something to really shed tears over now after a new poll bestows the House Speaker with a dubious honor.
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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Screenshot from "It's a Wonderful Life"
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By Robert Reich — Every year about now I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” again to remind myself what Frank Capra understood about America—its essential decency and common sense.
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The myth of NRA power, the fiscal “obstacle course” and your guide to surviving apocalypses real and imagined.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The myth of NRA power, the fiscal “obstacle course” and your guide to surviving apocalypses real and imagined.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other panelists discuss the NRA’s call for armed security at schools, violent media’s relationship to gun violence and the push for new gun control legislation on this week’s “Left, Right & Center.”
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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By Joe Conason — What may finally consume the House Republicans is their boundless contempt for the American public—a contempt bluntly demonstrated in their refusal to consider any reasonable compromise with President Obama to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” Dec. 31.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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A writer suggests children be taught to “gang rush” shooters; studies show a slight shift in Americans’ attitudes toward gun toting; and it seems the lesson Israel has to offer on gun policy is education, not control. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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Wade Rockett (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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“Now that Obama appears poised to push substantial parts of Social Security and Medicare over the ‘fiscal cliff’—in exchange for a paltry, largely symbolic, increase in the top marginal income-tax rate—we might ask whether liberals will once again rise to Obama’s defense, no matter how indefensible his actions,” writes John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine.
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Why is the president back to making premature and unnecessary concessions to Republicans?
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt —
Taxpayers and governments that are pushed too far have been known to resort to radical policy measures, and there are some on the table that could fix the problem at its core.
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why conservatives think Hillary Clinton’s faking a concussion and Time reveals its 2012 Person of the Year.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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“What do you both think the public needs to know about this economic debate going on right now?” Bill Moyers asked Naked Capitalism editor Yves Smith and Reagan and Bush economic adviser Bruce Bartlett.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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President Obama should be crying over kids killed by drones in Pakistan, not just those slain on American soil; apparently some believe that the Sandy Hook massacre was God’s reckoning for our support of abortion and gay marriage; meanwhile, the open Internet comes to an end as the United Nations give governments power to cut off parts of it. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a serious female contender to become the next defense secretary and Nate Silver’s analysis of gun ownership in America.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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By Robert Reich — America’s children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect them from deranged people wielding semiautomatic guns, but we’re also not protecting them from poverty.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the death of one the longest serving U.S. senators and an update on negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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Although gun policy is certainly important to talk about in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook tragedy, mental illnesses may be more crucial to discuss; President Obama fed the loyal Susan Rice to the sharks for the same reasons he’s both feared and admired; meanwhile, education is becoming a commodity rather than a right thanks to the neoliberal agenda. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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By Robert Reich — It was the centerpiece of the president’s re-election campaign. Every time Republicans complained about trillion-dollar deficits, he and other Democrats would talk jobs. That’s what Americans care about—jobs with good wages. So why, exactly, is Washington back to obsessing about budget deficits?
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — “We all misjudged the risks involved,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in March 2010 of the housing bubble that led to the financial crisis. He forgot about economist Dean Baker.
Posted on Dec 15, 2012
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, The International Herald Tribune —
Posted on Dec 15, 2012
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the “Left, Right & Center” crew discuss the horrific school shooting in Connecticut, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s withdrawal from consideration for the top slot in the State Department, Michigan’s new status as a right-to-work state and more.
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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As President Obama promises to bargain away changes to spending and social programs in exchange for income tax increases in the top two brackets, leading economist Dean Baker criticizes the so-called fiscal cliff threat as a myth.
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Are you as sick of the “fiscal cliff” as I am? Actually, that’s a trick question. You couldn’t possibly be.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a GOP contender for a top Cabinet post in the Obama administration and why Michigan Republicans should have taken a closer look at the right-to-work legislation they passed.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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