Posted in Economy Letters to Congress

What Has the Past 12 Years Done to America? Killed the Middle Class, for One Thing.

Many who look beyond the insane rhetoric of never ending lowered taxes for the super-rich, while insisting that Americans work until they drop dead rather…

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Posted in Current Events Failure of American Journalism

Reinstate Shirley Sherrod at USDA. Reject the Dog-Whistle Racism of the Radical Right

I just posted this note via the contact form at the White House, regarding the forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod from her USDA position. If…

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Posted in Separation Church and State

Juan Coal on Palin on the Ground Zero Mosque vs. the Founding Fathers

Juan Cole, who regularly publishes some of the most commentary available on the Middle East on his blog, Informed Comment, has published one of the…

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Posted in Constitution, Bill of Rights Information Age

Local Booksellers, National Trade Associations, ACLU, and Others Sue to Block Internet Censorship Law

Signed into law in April by Governor Patrick and effective today, the law, Chapter 74 of the Acts of 2010, imposes severe restrictions on the…

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Posted in Corporate Oligarchy Economy

Paul Krugman on “Punishing the Jobless”

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman published a column in the New York Times on July 4th that relates directly to my posts here of…

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