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The Real War

April 10, 2012

Women employees earn 77 cents for every dollar their male counterparts in the workplace earn. Which means that women who do the same work as men are being continuously discriminated against. It's a statistic that's faced its fair share of criticism, and Equal Pay Day is indeed a broad look at average pay among all [...]

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A Declaration Of War

March 10, 2011

Wisconsin state legislators ended their three weeks of playacting last night by simply telling unionized workers in their state and union workers and supporters nationwide to go f*ck themselves….and have a nice day. From the beginning of the dispute in Wisconsin over Governor Scott Walker's attempt to end collective bargaining rights for state workers, the [...]

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Stubbornly Push, Push, Pushing

March 5, 2011

"We're going to push and push and push until some larger force makes us stop," Addington said….. That's what David Addington, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff told Jack Goldsmith, head of the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel, when the two men clashed over the power of the "unitary executive". The power of then president, [...]

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Hurt Economy, Hurt Obama

March 1, 2011

"Making Obama a one term president." That's the line loudly announced every week day marking the start of Sean Hannity's daily propaganda-radio program. Senate Minority Leader, Droopy Dawg McConnell detailed his top priority last November….“the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." McConnell is as [...]

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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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Fireside Chat Full Of Lies

February 23, 2011

Transcipt of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's "fireside chat" last night is found here. A few excerpts…. You see, despite a lot of the rhetoric we’ve heard over the past 11 days the bill I put forward isn’t aimed at state workers, and it certainly isn’t a battle with unions. If it was, we would have [...]

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Crushing Democrats By Busting Unions

February 21, 2011

There's a battle going on inside Ohio. The crux of the dispute is over the same union-busting proposals being fought over in Wisconsin under the leadership of Neo-Confederacy Governor-General, Scott Walker. In Ohio, Republican Sen. Shannon Jones (Springboro) has authored the anti-union bill tagged SB-5. From a unionized worker's point of view, here are the [...]

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WalkerBack, Wisconsin

February 19, 2011

As with all events, there are now two wildly different narratives out there explaining what's happening in Wisconsin. In one of these two narratives, Governer Walker's Wisconsin is buried under mountains of debt. The debt is so bad, goes this narrative, that dealing with it is a dire emergency which the new Tea Party governor [...]

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It's Not About The Deficits

February 18, 2011

Obama yesterday…. "Some of what I've heard coming out of Wisconsin, where you're just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain, generally seems like more of an assault on unions," Obama said. "And I think it's very important for us to understand that public employees, they're our neighbors, they're our friends." But..see…that's the [...]

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"So Be It"

February 16, 2011

Since the midterms, Republicans and Republican voters have been taunting Democrats and progressives over their landslide win in the House and gains in the Senate, state legislatures, and governorships. That's fine and all…..politics ain't beanbag…..winners deserve to celebrate while losers need to contemplate. Well, we're into the Republican Afterglow Party now approximately 6 weeks. How's [...]

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