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Record Profits Equal Lower Taxes

May 7, 2011

Yahoo… All told, the Fortune 500 generated nearly $10.8 trillion in total revenues last year, up 10.5%. Total profits soared 81%. But guess who didn’t benefit much from this giant wave of cash? Millions of U.S. workers stuck mired in a stagnant job market. [...] Nevertheless, we’ve rarely seen such a stark gulf between the [...]

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Oily Liars

April 27, 2011

Headline from the popular rightwing blog site Gateway Pundit, March 18,2011….. "Obama Praises Brazilian Oil Industry While He Blocks Drilling Here At Home" After quoting from an editorial in USA Today by President Obama discussing our energy partnership with Brazil, Gateway Pundit writer, Jim Hoft, goes on to say this…. This is the same president [...]

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Gassing Our Own Citizens

April 21, 2011

President Obama, speaking at a community college in Virginia yesterday… "It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right now is not the lack of supply. There's enough supply. There's enough oil out there for world demand," Obama said. "The problem is … speculators and people make various bets, and they [...]

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The Stench Of Rot

April 20, 2011

The number one reason why America is rotting from the inside out is the legalized corruption found in our political process. One of my conservative in-laws asked me again recently what I saw as the biggest problem facing America. My answer was the same as it was the year before…..the bribery system inherent in our [...]

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Stifled By High Corporate Tax Rates?

March 26, 2011

My libertarian and conservative friends like to remind me that America's corporate tax rates are oh-so-high. As they tell it, America's 35% tax rate on corporations stifles growth and innovation. They even suggest that our current high unemployment is being affected negatively by these burdensome corporate taxes. The Reverend likes to deal in the actual [...]

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"Not There For Political Reasons"

February 28, 2011

Blogger, Ian Murphy, is the guy who punked Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker with the fake-David Koch phone call. A fake-David Koch phone call which lasted 20 minutes. Of all people, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post has a good take on the punk call….and here's a transcript of the entire fake-Koch call. A quick bio [...]

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Is America Losing It's Democracy?

February 12, 2011

A 30 year dictatorial regime has ended in Egypt….and now the hard slog to form a democracy will begin. A good thing, to be sure. One middle eastern country begins it's democracy while the world's most powerful nation seems to be losing it's democracy. While millions of ordinary Americans are struggling with unemployment and declining [...]

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Bagging Floridians

February 8, 2011

Current Republican governor of Florida, Rick Scott, used to be the CEO of health care provider, Columbia/HCA. While he was CEO, Scott's company was raided in 1997 by the FBI…. Among the crimes uncovered were doctors being offered financial incentives to bring in patients, falsifying diagnostic codes to increase reimbursements from Medicare and other government [...]

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America Rewards Reckless Irresponsibility

January 3, 2011

Huge banking, insurance and real estate interests played fast and loose with their industry's rules. Due diligence was discarded as old fashioned. Recklessness and irresponsibility were rewarded handsomely as hyper-greed encompassed the paper shuffling industries. When the recklessness and irresponsibility became evident even to the irresponsible….when Lehman Bros. went down….it was too late. The poison [...]

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GNN: Government News Network

December 29, 2010

If you didn't get a chance to see this eleven minute back and forth between CNN's Jessica Yellin, ex-Bushie Fran Townsend and Salon's Glenn Greewald discussing Julian Assange and WikiLeaks……I recommend it. For discussion purposes, I transcribed a segment of the hapless Fran Townsend's response to the always razor-sharp Greenwald. Fran Townsend: "Is he (Assange) [...]

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