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Obenshain to Concede AG Race to Herring
UPDATE: RICHMOND — State Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R) conceded the race for Virginia attorney general to Democrat Mark R. Herring on Wednesday, saying his “vigorous and hard-fought fight” is over. Obenshain’s announcement put an end to a drawn-out contest that, on...
The End Game for Democracy
There's so much truth here — it's the kind of thing that needs to be blasted across the front page of every newspaper and news website across the land. But there's a reason that won't happen... http://youtu.be/pFYb4gKEFl4
Tea Party Tim and Plutocrat Pete
Economic equality is indeed the struggle of our age
"All labor has worth," said Martin Luther King, Jr., in one of the last speeches he ever gave. "It is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages. Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. If we are going...
Domino’s workers fired for protesting wage theft get their jobs back
by Laura Clawson via Think Progress The 25 Manhattan Domino's workers who lost their jobs after protesting being forced to work below minimum wage will be back on the job this weekend, thanks to an agreement with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman....
Mr. Potter and the Commies of Bedford Falls
A holiday special brought to you by Third Way/Fox News
Why the Third Way hates Sen. Elizabeth Warren
by Hunter The obsessive centrists of the punditverse are abuzz with praise for supposed centrist Democratic organization Third Way and their grumbling op-ed condemnation of Democratic liberal populism in abstract and "economic populists" like Sen. Elizabeth Warren in...
When Outsourcing Public Services to Private Companies Goes Wrong
By Mike Ludwig The point of carpooling is to save some gas money while reducing traffic congestion and air pollution, but in Virginia, taxpayers could be on the hook when commuters try to do just that. The Australian company Transurban recently teamed up with a...
Will Your Tax Dollars Fund a Highway That’s a Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine in Disguise?
by Mary Anne Hitt Today, Appalachian community leaders are in Washington, D.C., to protest a Virginia coal boondoggle that has set its sights on $2 billion of your federal tax dollars. Mountaintop removal coal mining is already a shocking, devastating, and destructive...
Lynwood Lewis for Senate
Lynwood Lewis, a lawyer and Democratic state delegate from Accomack County, makes an economic pitch in his television spot that begins airing Wednesday in Hampton Roads. The ad highlights his work with lawmakers in both parties to promote space launches from NASA's...
