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Don’t fall for the Republican’s upcoming generational-divide tactics
By Robert Reich The Republican congress that takes over this week will try to drive a generational wedge through the electorate. They’re cooking up arguments that the nation can’t afford to provide our children adequate health care and education if we’re going to meet...
The 18 CEOs who wrecked the economy
Meet a few of the job destroyers and tax evaders that want to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid while lowering the tax rate for the top 2% "There really is no shame. The Wall Street leaders whose recklessness and illegal behavior caused this terrible...
Overturn Citizens United
The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United has allowed corporations and other special interests to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into our elections, effectively buying up chunks of our federal, state and local governments. It’s time to choke off this...
Rubio Vows to Block Twenty-first Century
CREDIT PHOTOGRAPH BY MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Seizing upon an issue that could become the cornerstone of a possible 2016 Presidential campaign, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said on Thursday that he would do everything in his power to...
GOP greets economic news with total silence
For those hoping to see the American economy succeed, there are a lot of reasons to smile this morning. Economic growth is at an 11-year high. Job growth is at a 15-year high. The stock market is soaring. Wages are rising. Gas prices are plummeting. American...
Dangerous game: Republicans freeze Secret Service budget over immigration
By DAVID ROGERS First came the White House fence jumpers. Now it’s Congress, fencing off money for the embattled Secret Service because of a totally unrelated fight with President Barack Obama over immigration. Just last Thursday, an independent review panel warned...
“I still hear my brother crying I can’t Breathe. Now I’m in the struggle saying I can’t leave…”
http://vimeo.com/115084647 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — A mass of demonstrators chanting “Black lives matter” converged in the Mall of America rotunda on Saturday as part of a protest against police brutality that caused at least part of the mall to...
“A Worse Fraud than Tweed’s”
Isn't it amazing how Washington works? While the rich get richer, they get tax breaks and Wall Street deregulation? While working families become poorer, they get cuts in pensions that were promised to them. Congress must start defending the needs of working families,...
Weekly Address: America’s Resurgence is Real
In this week’s address, the President reflected on the significant progress made by this country in 2014, and in the nearly six years since he took office. "More jobs. More insured. A growing economy. Shrinking deficits. Bustling industry. Booming energy. Pick any...
