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  • Wall Street Journal Capitalism for the Entitled

    Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal today contains two insightful glimpses into the minds of the Entitled Capitalists who think big fat government subsidies are the natural right of the rich. The first is a very sympathetic news story about Sheep Farmers who have a special government program that allows them…

  • The professional left

    [published April 2011 on TPV] Since Barack Obama began to find success in the Democratic primaries of 2008 he and his supporters have attracted virulent attacks from the professional left of liberal commentariat, lobbyists, pundits, think tankers, and academics. The underlying basis for the attacks is class – the class…

  • The big union win that nearly nobody has noticed

    The big union win that nearly nobody has noticed

    This is mostly true: Put a union label on the new American Airlines because it never would have happened without labor. The airline’s own employees pushed the company into bankruptcy, drove out the hated leaders and escorted their own white knight onto the property. On Thursday, as US Airways announced…

  • Talk about an entitlement: Wall Street Journal demands risk free returns for the rich

    The invaluable Wall Street Journal editorialists provide a clear explanation of the kind of free market that the entitled 1% want: one where all risks are on the backs of the people who work for a living while all rewards are reserved for “investors”.  Stockton California is moving towards bankruptcy…

  • Standing with Rand back through history

    Some paragraphs from Rand Paul’s speech and speeches from a couple of decades ago. There are some easy give-aways, especially at the end and the first paragraph, but take a look. The President says, I haven’t killed anyone yet. He goes on to say, and I have no intention of…

  • The modern GOP is shaped by Nixon’s treason

    The recent confirmation that Richard Nixon secretly conspired to sabotage peace talks President Johnson was holding with Vietnam also confirms the modern Republican party as a party of treason against the United States.  Nixon secretly told the government of South Vietnam it would get a better deal from him than…

  • Obamacare’s third anniversary

    Markos Moulatsis on Twitter 2009 My position on #HCR – kill it if it includes mandate. Strip out the mandate, then what’s left is inoffensive. Not reform, but inoffensive.    about 1 hour ago   from TweetDeck   RT @xxxxxx: What is irksome, and deadly, is that individual mandate is…

  • Digby haz a sad

    Using this precedent [the bombing of Cambodia – root] to justify the current covert war across the globe is truly astonishing. That it’s being done by the president who most people see as the most liberal since FDR is just sad.- Digby Tsk tsk.This is a variant of a favorite…

  • The Progressive Libertarians fall for Rand Paul’s scam

    Why I don’t call myself a progressive #billion. The funniest thing about the “filibuster” is that it didn’t actually delay the vote. Under the Senate’s idiotic rules, the closure vote had to “ripen” for 30 hours anyways. So the whole thing was just a media stunt. But this didn’t stop…

  • Robert Reich’s economics

    (Published People’s View March 2013 ) Romney, Santorum and Obama all vow to fight for U.S. manufacturing. It’s not just a lost cause; it’s the wrong one [..] Even if we didn’t have to compete with lower-wage workers overseas, we’d still have fewer factory jobs because the old assembly line…