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Staring at Empty Pages

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:57 PM EST (Scoop)

The Occupy Wall Street movement should spend today doing a nice little victory lap, because it seemed for all the world like its members were ghost-writers on President Obama's State of the Union speechwriting staff. Though he never directly mentioned the movement itself, Mr.

Jobs, Jobs and Cars

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:53 AM EST (The New York Times)

Mitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana’s governor, made the Republicans’ reply to President Obama’s State of the Union address. His performance was, well, boring.

In Honduras, a Mess Helped by the U.S.

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:35 AM EST (The New York Times)

IT’S time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become.

Why Evangelicals Don't Like Mormons

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:50 AM EST (The New York Times)

According to a CNN exit poll of South Carolina Republican primary voters, Newt Gingrich, a thrice-married Catholic, won twice as much support from evangelical Protestants as Mitt Romney, a Protestant.

George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:51 PM EST ()

“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros tells Newsweek. “We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression.

George Soros predicts riots, police state and class war for America

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:44 PM EST ()

Billionaire investor George Soros has a new prediction for America. While it might be as dire as it gets for the financial wiz, this bet concerns more than just the value of the buck. According to Soros, there's about to be an all-out class war.

Eight Industries the U.S. Has Lost to China

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:14 PM EST ()

Steel Cotton Initial Public Offerings Tobacco Autos Beer Production High-Technology Exports Coal Production

Reagan's Hand in Guatemala's Genocide

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:17 AM EST (Consortiumnews.com)

Guatemala is taking steps to hold an ex-dictator accountable for genocide committed against Maya-Ixil Indians in the 1980s, even as the United States continues to honor the American president — Ronald Reagan — who helped make that genocide possible. A Guatemalan ju …

Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class

Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:48 AM EST (The New York Times)

When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P.

Scott Walker's Fundraising Pitch: 'Big Labor Bosses' Are Trying To 'Barge And Bully' Into Wisconsin

Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:45 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

"Big Union-sponsored mercenaries." "Bare-knuckle union attacks." "Strong-arm tactics." Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) most recent fundraising letter to solicit donations for a potential recall election minces no words in going after his Democratic and union opponents.

South Carolina: Poor, Jobless, and... Republican

Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:26 AM EST ()

Republican candidates crisscrossing South Carolina this week are railing against the president’s management of the economy. Newt Gingrich is leading the charge with his racially tinged comment that Obama is “the food stamp president.”

End Piracy, Not Liberty

Seeded on Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:24 AM EST (Google)

Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business.

BA passengers horrified when error message announces crash landing

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:20 PM EST ()

It's the situation every air passenger dreads. One minute you're snoozing happily in your seat 35,000 feet above the Atlantic and the next an emergency announcement comes over the speakers: "This is an emergency.

U.S economic growth will be anemic in 2012

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:16 AM EST (Slate)

Consumers are income-challenged, wealth-challenged, and debt-constrained. That doesn’t bode well for 2012.

Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:05 AM EST (The Daily Beast - Andrew Sullivan)

Seeded by Par4TheCourse (Clipped by multifariousone)

The right calls him a socialist, the left says he sucks up to Wall Street, and independents think he's a wimp. Andrew Sullivan on how the president may just end up outsmarting them all.

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Mitt Romney to wheelchair-using medical marijuana patient: "I don't support medical marijuana. Bye"

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:21 AM EST (Boing Boing)

In this old video, an 80 lb man with muscular dystrophy in a wheelchair explains to Mitt Romney that his qualified physician believes that medical marijuana is the only medication that helps him.

Turning America into Pottersville

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:59 AM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

For many years, it appeared that the Right wanted to take the United States back to the 1950s -- when blacks "knew their place," women were "in the kitchen" and gays stayed "in the closet" -- but it turns out that the intended back-in-time-travel was to the 1920s, to an era of …

Sorry, Republicans. George Washington Isn't Buying Your Bull

Seeded on Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:42 PM EST ()

Unless you think George Washington didn’t know much about America’s founding, we should probably take his word over today’s conservatives….

The Myth of American Productivity

Seeded on Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:29 PM EST (Political Animal)

Politicians say we have the most productive workers in the world. They don't know what they're talking about.

Mitt Romney no stranger to tax breaks, subsidies

Seeded on Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:45 AM EST (The L.A. Times)

As Mitt Romney defends his record running a private equity firm, he frequently points to a fast-growing Indiana steel company, financed in part by Bain Capital, that now employs 6,000 workers. What Romney doesn't mention is that Steel Dynamics also received generous tax breaks …

America Isn't a Corporation - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:47 AM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by easyjjgrand3 (Clipped by multifariousone)

That’s how the fictional Gordon Gekko finished his famous “Greed is good” speech in the 1987 film “Wall Street.” In the movie, Gekko got his comeuppance.

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Is Private Equity Bad For the Economy?

Seeded on Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:53 PM EST (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)

Mitt Romney's private equity record is suddenly the talk of the GOP presidential contest. What do we know about the industry he helped to create?

Appeals court rule Oklahoma Shariah ban unconstitutional

Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:02 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Oklahoma’s referendum against state judges considering Islamic law is unconstitutional, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday (Jan. 10), upholding a lower court ruling that had blocked the measure.

Fleecing the Angry Whites

Seeded on Mon Jan 9, 2012 10:53 AM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Since the days of Richard Nixon's "Southern strategy," the Republican Party has wooed angry whites with coded messages designed to play to racial prejudices -- and that pattern has come back strong in Campaign 2012 as the GOP seeks to rid the White House of a black Democrat. U …

The G.O.P.'s 'Black People' Platform

Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 7:04 AM EST (The New York Times)

As we’ve gotten around to casting votes to select a Republican presidential nominee, the antiblack rhetoric has taken center stage. You just have to love (and despise) this kind of predictability.

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