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Senator Warren and the intellectual wizardry of the National Review
If the Federal Reserve can float trillions of dollars to large financial institutions at low interest rates to grow the economy, surely they can float the Department of Education the money to fund our students, keep us competitive, and grow our middle class.” – Senator Warren The National Review’s Ian…
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The fake principles and privileged “normal” of the liberal pundits
The hysteria over Fox “news” being investigated for breaking the Espionage Act is based on a lie about what’s normal in US law and politics. In the imaginary world the Free Press “normally” reports by soliciting highly secret documents from government officials covering covert and diplomatic operations and the government…
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Really counselor ? ACLU’s absurd defense of Fox “News”
Gabe Rottman, the ACLU Legislative counsel is very upset that the government got a warrant (approved by a judge) to look at the phone records of a “reporter” for Fox News. Apparently if we are going to be principled progressives we have to pretend that Fox is not a component…
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I guess Barbara Lee does know more than David Sirota after all
In 2010: Congresswoman Barbara Lee and David Sirota on the health care bill Sirota this is a telling indictment of the health care law itself, strongly suggesting that it was constructed by the Obama administration – as some progressives argued – as a massive taxpayer-financed giveaway to private insurers like…
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The rights of journalists to secret information
The Criminal Code contains numerous provisions potentially relevant to these cases. Section 797 [n5] makes it a crime to publish certain photographs or drawings of military installations. Section 798, [n6] also in precise language, proscribes knowing and willful publication of any classified information concerning the cryptographic systems [p736] or communication…
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Bare knuckle politics
First published in 2011. Ron Bloom is no longer with the White House, but … Previously published on The People’s View. If you read the Wall Street Journal or right wing blogs, you know who Ron Bloom is. He is special advisor to Tim Geithner and White House director of…
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The Bush gambit and the Press
The press and Republicans kept the 2000 Presidential election close enough for the Supreme Court to steal it for George W. Bush thanks a great deal to Bill Clinton’s abdication under fire. The Justice Department stopped trying to enforce the voting rights act – facilitating Florida and other states gross…
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The USA can reduce budget deficit and use Keynesian stimulus at the same time
The budget of the United States is so bloated with give-aways to the wealthy, subsidies of dirty, obsolete industries, waste and inefficiency that it could be brought into balance rapidly while still increasing both investment in infrastructure and the kind of economic stimulus Keynes showed will boost economies out of…
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Tomasky and Charles Pierce battle for hysterical weeper award
I’m inclined to award this to Michael Tomasky for his “Fire Holder” article in which he gives the following hilarious advice to President Obama: And if Obama permits these things to linger, they’ll poison the situation on Capitol Hill, which hardly needs any more poisoning, and the substantive bills he…
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