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Budget
office cuts deficit projection
Infrequently
asked questions
Did
the acting director of the IRS do anything to cause the improper
investigations by his agency? If so what was it? If not, why
did he have to resign but not his bosses, Jack Lew and Barack
Obama? After all, isn't firing Steven Miller just as much an
improper political act as targeting the Tea Party's taxes?
Why
- as the president claims - does a constitutional right such as freedom
of the press have to be "balanced" against bureaucratic
procedures such as classifying something as secret, especially
when such classifications are often done for political reasons
or to avoid embarrassment? Where does the Constitution refer
to this? And which Harvard law professor taught Obama he could
get away with it?
The end of the First American
Republic and the rise of the gradocracy
Maryland town lowers voting age
to 16
Corporate lobbyists getting big
bonuses for hacking into government
Obamadmin spied on Associated
Press
How liberals and Tea Partiers
could unite
13 Benghazis That Occurred on
Bush's Watch Without a Peep from Fox News
Senator Warren offers bill to
slash student loan interest
The tangled web of Benghazi and
birth certificates
Look who Congress forgot to exempt
from sequester
- "Evolving" - Another political
con the media has bought into
HAVING
A DAUGHTER MAKES YOU VOTE BETTER ON WOMEN'S ISSUES; HAVING TWO
DAUGHTERS IS EVEN BETTER
Three-Quarters of Progressive Caucus
Not Taking a Stand
on Medicare, Social Security
What Americans
outside of Washington want
The recipe for bad presidents
ACORN
ACORN DEFENDS ITSELF
ACORN & THE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY
TWO GOP LIES ABOUT ACORN
ALEC
How ALEC took over Wisconsin
How ALEC controls Maine's GOP
Americans Elect
Extreme centrist group gives up
presidential campaign
Pseudo centrist presidential campaign
collapsing
Moderate extremists have $30 million
but no presidential candidate
The big Wall Streeter behind Americans
Elects
More on secret funding of Americans
Elect
The muddled middle's new plan:
Americans Elect
Anderson, Rocky
Rocky Anderson accepts his newly-formed
party's presidential nomination
An interview with Rocky Anderson
Former Salt Lake City mayor divorces
himself from Democratic Party
Bachman, Michelle
Michelle Bachmann discovers she
is actually an American
MICHELLE BACHMAN IS A WELFARE QUEEN
Pseudo Christian Bachmann doesn’t
even belong to church
Biden, Joe
Look who went to Joe Biden's party
Biden outpulled Obama in convention
TV viewers
Study:
Cutting top tax rates doesn't help economy
Joe Biden's best line of the week
Romney's bully pal, Joe Biden
Black politics
THE BLACK IVIES
HOW ETHNICITY REALLY WORKS IN POLITICS
Booker,
Cory
Another black ivy pimps for Bain
Cory Booker and the black ivies
Cory Booker and the black ivies
Campaign
Financing
The revolving door in American politics
A record-breaking 915,000 presidential
campaign ads have
aired on broadcast and cable TV from late April through Sunday
- a 45 percent increase compared with the 2008 election.
Who's buying our elections
Citizens United ruling accounts
for 78 percent of 2012 election spending
83%
of Americans want some limits on campaign spending
Four dozen donors and families
trying to buy election
The efficiency of public campaign
financing
Two justices suggest rehearing
Citizens United
One third of campaign funding
comes from secret donors
Koch brothers hold secret billionaires'
meeting to discuss election
A tiny number are buying America
through Super PACs
Can Congress act on Citizens United
without a constitutional amendment?
Only 58 donors are behind 80%
of Super PAC money
The one percent of the one percent
Perpetual campaigns make candidates
hostage to contributors
Supreme Court makes it even easier
to buy politicians
Top corporate tax avoiders gave
$8 million to candidates in 2010
How money
will buy the 2012 election
Supreme
Court ruling created costliest and most secretly funded mid term
election ever
SUPREME COURT'S ASSUMPTIONS ON CORPORATE
CAMPAIGN FUNDING ALREADY PROVED WRONG
SUPREME COURT RULING ALLOWS CORPORATIONS
TO LEGALLY BRIBE JUDGES
HOW THE SUPREME COURT RULING LETS FOREIGN
COUNTRIES BUY OUR ELECTIONS
JUSTICE STEVENS' DISSENT IN THE SUPREME
COURT RULLING ON CAMPAIGN SPENDING
A SOLUTION TO THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF
POLITICS: FREE TV ADS
Carter, Jimmy
JIMMY CARTER BANNED FROM DEMOCRATIC PODIUM
Center
Extremist center strikes again
America's most dangerous extremists:
the muddled, myopic, miasmic middle
The extremist center
The rise of the moderate extremists
TIRED OF NUTTY IDEAS FROM LEFT AND RIGHT?
TRY A FEW FROM THE EXTREMIST CENTER
WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO LET YOUR CHLDREN GO
NEAR CENTRIST SENATORS
Buddy Cianci
Buddy Cianci's memoir: "Politics and Pasta: How
I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra,
Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived
to Tell the Tale."
Clintons
Clinton's next stop after Hope
HILLARY
CLINTON
PUTTING THE CLINTON SCANDALS IN CONTEXT
THE CLINTON LEGACY
ARKANSAS CONNECTIONS:
HOW WE GOT INTO THIS MESS
THE
CLINTON MYTH
BILL
CLINTON: OUR FIRST POSTMODERN PRESIDENT
CLINTON
& THE KILLER BLOOD
THE LONELIEST MILE IN TOWN
WHAT
REALLY HAPPENED AT MENA
ARKANSAS
AND DRUGS
THE
CRIMES OF MENA
MORE
CLINTON STORIES
Congress
At least 28 former aides to Senate
Finance Committee chair are now tax lobbyists
Congressmembers with the worst staff
turnover rates
Bring back the pork
How to fix Congress
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Public
Policy Polling - Facing
low approval ratings after a historically unproductive 112th
session and a series of last-minute showdowns over fiscal matters,
Congress is now less popular than root canals, NFL replacement
referees, head lice, the rock band Nickelback, colonoscopies,
carnies, traffic jams, cockroaches, Donald Trump, France, Genghis
Khan, used-car salesmen and Brussel sprouts. |
It's not reelection that drives
politicians but post-election employment
All super junta members represent
states with biggest military contractors
Who bankrolls the congressional
super-junta?
Members of Congress benefitting by legal
insider trading,,,
Nearly half of Congress are millionaires....
A CBS News survey of all freshmen members of the
U.S House of Representatives has found that at least 21 of the
96 members are sleeping in their office - that's 19 of the 87
new Republicans and 2 of the 9 new Democrats.
Why you don't know your congress
member
WANT TO BE A MEMBER OF CONGRESS? THEN WORK
FOR ONE
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
CONG
RESEARCH SERVICE
THOMAS [LEGISLATIVE INFO
VOTES
IN HOUSE
VOTES
IN SENATE
Conservatives
Conservatives have gotten dumber
in past four decades
THE MUDDLED METAPHOR OF THE TEA BAG PARTY
Conventions
Political Wire - Emails from the
DNC host committee refer to the Charlotte venue where President
Obama will accept the Democratic party presidential nomination
as "Panthers Stadium." Of course, as Maggie Haberman
notes, "It's the place where the Panthers play, but it's
actually called Bank of America stadium."
Tampa and Charlotte plan to greet
conventions with SWAT teams, tanks and helicopters
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS: A USELESS APPENDAGE
FROM THE PAST
WHO
NEEDS THE CONVENTIONS, ANYWAY?
Corruption
- Congress votes to hide its corruption
Two people we're not listening
to enough: Buddy Roehmer and, yes, Jack Abramoff
State corruption test almost as
bad as No Child Left Behind
State corruption test almost as
bad as No Child Left Behind
Which states convict the most
corrupt officials
How to bribe a public official
Two government watchdogs hired
by those they were watching
Congress members engage in insider
trading that sends others to prison
Jack Abramoff: I had 100 congressmen
How to bribe a politician without anyone
noticing
When both parties break the law,
the media thinks it must be legal
We all live in a Mafia neighborhood
now
CAMPAIGN BRIBES SOAR THANKS TO SUPREME COURT
RULING
CONDITIONAL PRIVATE FUNDING OF PUBLIC POLICY
IS BRIBERY
TWO THIRDS OF FEDERAL CONTRACTORS HAVE ENGAGED
IN MISCONDUCT
DEMOCRATS ON THE TAKE FROM HEDGE FUNDS
IF YOU WANT TO BE CORRUPT, DO IT RIGHT
NEW RULES CAUSE LOBBYISTS TO GO UNDERGROUND
WAYS TO STOP CORPORATE DOMINANCE OF POLITICS
LOBBYING FIRM SHOWS CORPORADOS HOW TO TAKE
OVER ELECTIONS
BOTH PARTIES DEEP INTO CORRUPT MONEY GAME
HOW CORRUPTION HAS CHANGED
BUNDLING BECOMES MAJOR CORRUPT GAME OF CAMPAIGN
AMERICA'S MOST MOBBED UP ELECTION
Cuomo, Andrew
What happens if you are a 29 year
New York state employee and you piss off Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo is making history;
just ask him
Andrew Cuomo's flawed liberalism...
Dean, Howard
HOWARD
DEAN STORIES
Debates
How Obama could still win the
debate
How the presidential debate is
rigged
Earmarks
Why earmarks
should be saved
Edwards, John
Edwards
archive
Elections
Map of every American presidential
election
PEOPLE PREDICT ELECTION WINNERS
JUST LOOKING AT FACES
- COUNTING THE VOTES
FUN
WAYS TO STEAL VOTES
- WHAT'S WRONG WITH CAMPAIGN FINANCING
Election 2012
Romney got zero votes in some
precincts
@BorowitzReport
-
GOP Closing Argument: "We're strongly opposed to FEMA and
healthcare, but basically okay with rape:"
Get
your rosaries off of my ovaries
Liberal groups preparing for post
election problems with Obama
The most corrupt election in American
historyCould
Tivo change politics?
How there could be Romney in the
White House with Biden as veep
Young voters not enthusiastic
about election
Recovered history: The Howard
Dean approach
Memorandum
explains just
how the debate was rigged by the two parties
Obama in big trouble in rural
states
Candidates you may not have heard
of
Tuesday's
elections brought
two historic firsts for religion in American politics: A Buddhist
senator and a Hindu representative -- both from Hawaii -- will
join Congress.
Math muddle
Who
voted for whom
Bipolar politics.
AFL-CIO pulling money from candidates
Word: Doug Henwood on the election
The auto rescue worked
The
election: also a struggle between generations and between faith
vs. works
Excerpts from the NPR third party
presidential debate
Lehrer cut off by candidates three
times more than in 2008
Worst campaign ad of the year
Obama's data drones
How partisan is your beer?
Catholic bishop warns Democratic
voters that they're going to hell
We
are the 95%
Poll:
which brand do the candidates remind you of?
MORE
GOP/Dems joined to prevent you
hearing third party candidates in debates
Small business owners favor Obama
How to defeat Romney despite the
Obama campaign
Federal work program is actually
a form of unconstitutional indentured servitude. . .and neither
Republicans or Democrats care
Campaigns having hard time finding
foreclosed voters
Personal
to campaign media
Sam
Smith -
Please stop referring to Mitt Romney as a businessman. He's not;
he's an investment banker who makes money off of businessmen
and through buying and selling their businesses. As any business
owner can tell you; this is miles from the same thing.
Democrats stereotype the white
working class
Why third party candidates should
be included in the debates
Getting ready for those family
values folks, Tampa police arrest hookers
@GregMitch - 8 in 10 NBA owners have donated
to Romney--while players back Obama.
How privatization is ruining America
How nonprofits spend millions
on elections and call it charity
Wall Street favoring Romney over
Obama
Public miles from politicians
on financial cures
Why the Democrats should stay
away from the Clintons
Why we have to save your mail
service from the GOP attack
How to register to vote in your
state
@fivethirtyeight
- The
number of state polls is down about 40% from the comparable date
in 2008. Just much less data this year.
The political language problem
Entropy update: Bill Clinton to
nominate Obama
Why Obama isn't doing better
Will Bloomberg ban mugs of beer
next?
A new Gallup survey finds just 58% of registered
voters between the ages of 18 and 29 say they are "definitely
likely" to vote, down from 78% who said they were in October
2008.
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel: Another narcissist
out of control
Fellowship & The
Family
Ugandan legislator pushing death
for gays tied to secretative Washington "Fellowship"
For 15 years, Hillary Clinton
was, too
Filibusters
Recovered history: When filibusters
were real
The drive to reform the filibuster
Making the argument that the filibuster
is unconstitutional
WILL THE DEMOCRATS REFORM THE FILIBUSTER?
DEMOCRATS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN BLOCKING FILIBUSTER
REFORM
LAUTENBERG PROPOSES 'MR SMITH' FILIBUSTER
RULE
WHY THE SENATE HIDES BEHIND A RULE IT CAN
CHANGE
THE PHANTOM FILIBUSTER
A BAILOUT LESSON: KILL THE FILIBUSTER
Finances
Fun facts about sequestration
History of American financial disasters
The secret battle against our money
creating power
A debt solution for the people
Progressives propose end to debt ceiling
Leading economists: screw the debt
ceiling
What
we didn't learn from Europe
The choice: raise the debt ceiling
or crash the economy
The cliff story the media ignored
Which law does Obama have to break
to please the GOP?
Even austerity's name is a fraud
The most underreported fact from
the cliff
Word: The deficit
Group attempting to rig budget
for the Pentagon
Study: Hiking upper end tax rates
don't affect economy
Activist Post - The U.S. tax code is now more than
3.8 million words long. If you took all of William Shakespeare's
works and collected them together, the entire collection would
only be about 900,000 words long.
Why the fiscal cliff is an artificial
crisis
Federal budget slashing would
hit states hard
America Faces Three Serious "Cliffs,"
None of Them Fiscal
An easy way to end the debt crisis
Cliff notes: Tax stock transactions
Thoughts on watching "Lincoln"
Another way to deal with the budget
Word: About that deficit
Fiscal Cliff An Artificial Crisis
All you need to know about the
Cliff in one FAQ
Why Even a Deal on the Budget
Is Bad for the American Economy
Deficit reduction as percent of
GDP already setting recent record
A
real bad time to cut the deficit
Low income programs aren't the
fiscal problem
The
false promise of a "grand bargain"
Stats: how Americans would handle
the budget
The
myth of the exploding safety net
Where
the debt really comes from. . .
OFF THE CHARTS
Total debt problem improving
Study: Cutting top tax rates doesn't
help economy
Canada shows cutting taxes for
corporations doesn't help economy
Historical proof that austerity
doesn't work
How austerity politics hurts small
business
A bipartisan solution to the fiscal
crisis won't work because that's what caused it
The
fundamental problem is not government debt. Over the past few
years, the budget deficit has been caused by low growth. If we
focus on growth, then we get growth, and our deficit will go
down. If we just focus on the deficit, we're not going to get
anywhere.- Joseph Stiglitz
The case for repudiating the debt
How to avoid the austerity trap
We interrupt the fiscal myths
with a few facts
To
understand the absurdity of the deficit debate consider this: according
to Bloomberg News, between August 2007 and April 2010, the Fed
provided as much as $1.2 trillion in public money to banks and
other companies to meet emergency needs. If the Fed had provided
the so-called Super Committee with just a bit more - $1.5 trillion
- that bipartisan junta could have happily met its goals for
a full decade, and the interest rate cost would have been less
than a tenth of a percent. I propose we change the name of the
congressional body to the Super Committee Bank and ask the Fed
for some money - Sam Smith
Super junta, we hardly knew ye.
. .thank God
Americans disagree with Washington's
approach to deficit
SO WHO INCREASED THE DEBT?
A progressive approach to lowering
the deficit
DEFICIT COMMISSION SEEKS LARGER BUDGET
Key point about the Bowles-Simpson
report: it doesn't exist
Where the money is
Incredibly simple deficit cure:
doing nothing would reduce it by $7 trillion
Richard Brenneman
Study finds taxes not a big factor
in migration
The excess profits tax
Debt ceiling sanity
Fiscal falsehoods
Under Bush, GOP let deficit grow
by $4 trillion
Reagan didn't mind tax increases
Postal Service stops paying into
retirement system...
North Dakota could show Wisconsin
how to handle its budget
And this doesn't
include the more than $1 trillion
for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Imgur
TAXES LOWEST SINCE HARRY TRUMAN'S
TIME
LIBRARIES EASY VICTIMS OF BUDGET
CUT
Fusion politics
A little fusion politics for a
change
Gingrich,
Newt
Newt Gingrich
Rudy Giuliani
Gore, Al
AL GORE ENDORSES SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE
GOP
THE
REAL GOP PLATFORM
Governmnent
IRS targeted tea party groups
earlier than 2012 & senior officials knew it
VA backlogged on construction
as well as claims
What the federal government is
doing for your state and county
How to reduce the number of government
limos: change
the definition of a limo
Facts about public employment
The cabinet post you definitely
don't want
Obama's global approval rating
down
How to make government contracting
better
America'secret laws you never
heard about
State level Republicans don't
like big government unless they control it
Federal court cancels fees for
just visiting national forests
FDA spied on its whistleblowers
Just the facts: Democrats &
Republicans like same size government
Only about 83% of federal taxes
are paid voluntarily and on time
Billions needed to upgrade America’s
leaky water systems
What happens when you raise taxes
on the rich
39% OF CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE BILLS CAME
FROM LOBBYISTS
WHY CLOSING PARKS TO SAVE MONEY IS DUMB
FATTEST FARM SUBSIDY CHECKS GO TO WEALTHIEST
ZIP CODES
WASHINGTON'S FUNNY BOOKS
Green Party
NY Times pretends Green Party
doesn't exist
GREEN NEWS & COMMENT
GROWING GREEN
RAFTING DOWN THE MAINSTREAM
THE GREENS WERE RIGHT
FINDING GREENER PASTURES & GREENER VOTERS
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN 2000
HISTORY'S HINTS FOR THIRD PARTIES
WHAT THE MEDIA DOESN'T TELL YOU ABOUT THE
GREENS
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy
Giuliani
Rudy's friends
History
Homeland Security
Homeland Insecurities
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee stories
Ideas
AMERICA
2.0
APOLOGY
TO YOUNGER AMERICANS
AUTISTIC
CONFEDRACY
BRINGING DEVOLUTION TO THE 'HOOD
BRINGING
POLITICS HOME: An excerpt from Shadows
of Hope on how politics has lost connection with people.
CAMPAIGN FINANCING: Legal bribery
CARE
AND FEEDING OF A THIRD PARTY
An interview with Sam
Smith on the history of one of America's most durable third parties.
COOPERATIVE
COMMONWEALTH: A
statement of principles for Americans who believe in common sense,
common decency and common ground.
ESSAYS
ON POLITICS
THE
EXTREMIST CENTER
THE CARE & FEEDING OF THEORIES
CRASH
OF AMERICA
DEVOLUTION
FALSE
FAITH VS. LOUSY WORKS
GETTING LIBERALS & PROGRESSIVES
TO THINK SMALL
GETTING
THROUGH THE BAD TIMES
GLOBAL
DUMBING: THE POLITICS OF ENTROPY
HANDLING
THE BULLIES
HIDDEN
ISSUES
HISTORY'S
HINTS FOR THIRD PARTIES
LOSING
TIME, LOSING SPACE: The
politics of other dimensions
MEMO
TO A NEW MAYOR Advice
to a newly elected politician
MUSIC
& POLITICS: THE POWER OF CHANGES
NON-POLITICAL
SIDE OF POLITICS
OPPOSING
& CREATING The
twin tasks of a movement
PARIAH
ECONOMY AND THE RISE OF SOCIAL BIGOTRY
POCKET
PARADIGMS: A few words
about a lot of stuff
POLITICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS
POLITICS OF ANGER
POPULISM
: Retrieving
the Democrats' reason for existence
PUNK
AND PROTEST The beat,
busted, bruised, & bamboozled generation
QUIET
STORM: THE COLLAPSE OF OUR CULTURE
RAFTING
DOWN AMERICA'S REAL MAINSTREAM
RUNNING
OUT OF CHANGE: Why it's so hard to make good things happen
THINGS
TO DO IN THE BAD TIMES
WHAT DO JOE MANCHIN, BRIAN SCHWEITZER, DAVE
FREUDENTHAL, BRAD HENRY, AND ROCKY ANDERSON HAVE IN COMMON? They're among the most popular Democrats in the
country and you've probably never heard of most of them.
WHERE'S
THE COUNTER CULTURE WHEN WE NEED IT?
WHO OWNS FAITH & VALUES?
Inauguration
2013
About that 'Second Gettysburg Address'
No austerity inauguration for Obama
OCCUPY
PHILLY
The day America imitates the British
monarchy
Obamadmin bumps up number of items
not allowed at inauguration
Issues
ISRAEL-PALESTINE
ISSUE ABSENT FROM DEBATE
WHY THE DEMOCRATS NEED TO ABANDON GUN CONTROL
PROGRESSIVE
REVIEW STORIES
King, Angus
Angus King finally decides Democrats
are nice enough to caucus with
Mainers still don't know who they
elected senator (and neither does senator)
Man of the people Angus King requires
background |
check before you can have a hot
dog with him
Kucinich Dennis
Kucinich lost in race using unreliable voting
sytem
What America lost when Dennis
Kucnich lost
KUCINICH'S ROLE IN THE RACE
Paul LePage
Maine governor starving the poor
Paul
LePage and the complexities of anger
Joe Lieberman
[Joe] Lieberman -- who, needless to say, never served
in the military nor have any of his children -- devoted his entire
career to attempting to send other Americans' children to fight
war after war after war. In sum, as The Philadelphia Inquirer's
Will Bunch put it when examining the muddled history of Lieberman's
opposition to the war in Vietnam: "the only war he ever
opposed was the only war he might actually have had to fight
in." - Glenn Greenwald
Reasons to be happy that Joe Lieberman
is leaving the Senate
Liberals
Why liberals don't win
A Guide to the White Trash Planet
for Urban Liberals
STUDY: CONSERVATIVES HAPPIER THAN
LIBERALS BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE INEQUALITY IS JUSTIFIED
The death of liberalism and what to do about
it
Indentured liberals and progressive independents
Brain drain: The hazards of grad
school politics
What happened when real liberals were in
office
Waiting for Leftie: How liberals and the
left hold up change (1997)
How liberals and progressive are
different
WHY LIBERALS DON'T WIN
LIBERALISM
IS DEAD. . .TIME TO MOVE ON
TED KENNEDY: THE LAST RESPECTABLE LIBERAL
LIBERALS DUCK REAL CIVIL LIBERTIES STRUGGLES
WHY LIBERALS DON'T MAKE MORE HEADWAY
PASSIVE AGRESSIVE LIBERALISM
INDENTURED LIBERALS & INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVES
The price of neoliberalism
Bill Greider on the end of New
Deal liberalism
The Death of the Liberal Class
by Chris Hedges
THE PHONY LEFT
WHY LIBERALS MISREAD OBAMA
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE POOR IN LIBERAL
POLITICS?
WHY LIBERALS DON'T WIN ELECTIONS
LIFE
AMONG THE LIBERAL FUNDAMENTALISTS
(1991)
WHAT LIFE WOULD BE LIKE WITHOUT LIBERAL
POLICIES
THE LIBERAL WAR ON FREE SPEECH
HOW I GOT FIRED AS A LIBERAL Your editor is one of the
few certified ex-liberals in Washington.Here's how it happened.
THE
RISE OF A LIBERAL ARISTOCRACY AND THE FALL OF AMERICA: The collapse of liberalism and what's it
has cost the country
LIBERAL & MEDIA EVANGELICALS
HOW TO TELL IF YOU'RE STILL A LIBERAL: A quick test to see how far you've strayed
(From the Clinton years)
Libertarianism
THE LIBERTARIAN MONEY BEHIND THE TEA PARTY
& GLENN BECK
BOB BARR LIVENS UP LIBERTARIAN SCENE
MIKE
GRAVEL BECOMES A LIBERTARIAN. . .MIGHT RUN FOR PRESIDENT?
TIME LINE OF LIBERTARIAN THOUGHT
Lobbying
From Capitol Hill to K Street
Nearly 5400 former congressional
staffers and almost 400 former members became lobbyists in past
decade
Local
Why insisting on federal control
of government is masochistic
The virtues of government decentralization
LOCAL DEMOCRACY AS WELL AS LOCAL LETTUCE
MAINE LIBRARIES TURNING REFERENCE ROOMS
INTO CAFES
John
McCain
Media
SUNDAY TALK SHOWS HAVE STRONG CONSERVATIVE
BIAS
MEDIA IGNORED CIVIL LIBERTIES IN CAMPAIGN
COVERAGE & DEBATES
MSNBC MANIPULATES PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
OBESE MEDIA STILL RIGGING PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Moderation
Why the problem isn't lack of
bipartisanship
Money
HOW MUCH POLITICIANS HAVE MADE WHILE IN
OFFICE
Nader,
Ralph
Federal court allows Pennsylvania
Democrats to screw Ralph Nader
Nader proposes primary challenges
to Obama
Ron Paul & Ralph Nader agree
& disagree
NADER'S LETTER TO OBAMA
ABOUT HALF OF ALL VOTERS WANT NADER AND
BARR IN DEBATES
RALPH NADER: A SERIOUS CAMPAIGN
ZOGBY POLL SHOWS NADER PULLING INDEPENDENTS,
YOUNG VOTERS, PROGRESSIVES
NADER AND THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
NADER CHOOSES MATT GONZALEZ AS RUNNING MATE
NADER: AND NOW THE SLANDER BEGINS AGAIN
RALPH NADER GETS A FAIR DOCUMENTARY
NADER
EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE
Nepotism
ALL
IN THE FAMILY: POLITICAL NEPOTISM DATABASE
Barack
Obama
Offshore havens
Offshore Tax Loopholes Cost States
$40 Billion
O'Malley Martin
- The Martin O'Malley story
Palin Sarah
SARAH
PALIN ARCHIVES
Parties
Voters leaving major parties in
droves
Pell, Clairborne
ON THE OTHER HAND: THE MAN BEHIND CLAIBORNE
PELL
David Petreaus
Recovered history: spies and high
level sex
"Never seen it happen,"
says former CIA operative
Word: David Petreaus
Word: Petraeus and narcissism
The
media didn't convey us Petraeus
And
he's not gay
Politicians
Polls
& projections
Things that polls can't tell you
Public not responding to pollsters
How
American leans
ON ELECTION
POLLS
AND THE WINNING POLLSTERS ARE.
. .
POLLS NOT AS BAD AS THEY SEEM
Postal service
Post Office would have made a
profit had it not been for congressional mishandling of health
benefit rules
How Congress wrecked the Postal
Service
Post Office deficit grossly exaggerated
Why your postal service is dying
Postal service plans to cut up
to 35,000 jobs
Time to save the Post Office
Postal Service wants 50 cents
for first class mail
The real reason the Postal Service
is in trouble
Postal Service threatens to cut
service to three days a week
GAO
FINDS DELIVERING MAIL 'NOT VIABLE'
Primaries
32% of NH Republicans shook hands
with at least one GOP presidential candidate
Ten reasons to ignore Iowa
Iowa picks a GOP winner less than
half the time
Privatization
What could possibly go wrong here?
Populism
WHAT POPULISM IS ABOUT
What a populist rebellion might
look like
PHONY POPULISM BEING PUSHED BY RIGHT AND
MEDIA
POPULISM: WHAT HISTORIANS AND THE MEDIA
DON'T TELL YOU
Progressives
"Progressive" most favorable
political label
HOW PROGRESSIVES & LIBERALS ARE DIFFERENT
WHAT'S KILLING THE LEFT
HOW TO JUMP START THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
SOME PROGRESSIVE ISSUES
WHERE CHANGE REALLY COMES FROM
AMERICA 2.0
A COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH
GETTING THROUGH THE BAD TIMES
OPPOSING
& CREATING
TAKING IT FROM THE TOP AGAIN
THINGS TO DO IN THE BAD TIMES
WHERE'S THE COUNTER CULTURE WHEN WE NEED
IT?
ACTIVISM
WE NEED SOLUTIONS PEOPLE CAN SEE
& FEEL
BRINGING DEVOLUTION TO THE 'HOOD
LOCAL DEMOCRACY AS WELL AS LOCAL
LETTUCE
BRINGING BACK THE DEVOLUTIONARY
LEFT
NON-POLITICAL SIDE OF POLITICS
BRINGING
POLITICS HOME
MUSIC & CHANGE
FOR A MOVEMENT, PROGRESSIVES NEED
SHARED IDENTITY, NOT SHARED T SHIRTS
Public works
More than 4,400 dams rated unfsafe
Puerto Rico
If the United State Congress were to allow the citizens of
Puerto Rico to choose between independence and statehood, an
overwhelming majority (70 percent) would choose statehood, with
14 percent opting for independence and 13 percent undecided
Puerto Rico statehood vote more
complicated that it appears
Quinn Christine
Why are New York liberals backing Christine
Quinn?
Reid, Harry
Harry Reid's chief of staff has
gotten big payout from Comcast...
HARRY REID SCREWS UP AGAIN
HARRY REID DECLARES SENATE A PRIVATE CLUB
Republicans
Little bunch of old white Christian
extremists choosing the GOP candidate
THE
REAL GOP PLATFORM
Rockefeller Jay
"It's
my general feeling that people who are 20, 21, 22 years old really
don't have any social values at this point." -- Senate
Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), quoted by
the Los Angeles Times 2011
Roosevelt, Franklin
WHY
REPUBLICANS WORRY ABOUT FDR
Marco Rubio
Rubio was a Mormon for awhile
Ryan, Paul
Paul
Ryan page
Sanders, Bernie
How Bernie Sanders does it
BOSTON GLOBE PROFILE OF BERNIE SANDERS
Schweitzer, Brian
A western populist shows up on
the national scene
- Confusing politics: he supports
both the pipeline and single payer
Brian Schweitzer: bright light,
dark horse
Schumer, Chuck
CHUCK SCHUMER: A ROLLING CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Secret Service
Secret Service partied before
JFK assasination, too
Senate
Washington Post finally discovers
the Senate is grossly unequal
The Senate: America's most powerful
private club
THE SMALL STATE GANG THAT RUNS THE SENATE
Sequester
Sequestration forces food pantry
closure
Cancer clinics are turning away
thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester
Sequestration may mean hard times
for Meals on Wheels
Sequester hits those in need on
Wind River Indian Reservation
Budget cuts hurt schools in military
communities hard
Sequester Slashes Help for Long-Term
Unemployed
12 Programs Congress Refuses To
Save From Automatic Spending Cuts
Cancer clinics are turning away
thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester.
Sequestration Could Deny Rental
Assistance to 140,000 Low-Income Families
Simpson, Alan
Why does the media listen to someone
as dumb and wrong as Alan Simpson?
Socialism
Two in five Americans like socialism
More Americans view socialism
favorably than they do the Tea Party
IT'S OKAY TO TALK ABOUT SOCIALISM
JUST SAY NO TO SOCIALISM
A BRIEF GUIDE TO AVOIDING SOCIALISM
WANT TO BE HAPPIER? TRY SOME MORE SOCIALISM
WHAT MILWAUKEE CAN TEACH US ABOUT SOCIALISM
SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH SOCIALISM?
South
The changing face of southern
politics
Spitzer, Eliot
WHAT HAPPENS NORTH OF THE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE
STAYS NORTH OF THE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE
WHY DID FEDS SPEND SO MUCH MONEY INVESTIGATING
THE TRANSFER OF SO LITTLE MONEY?
THE SPITZER SAGA: MORE THAN IT APPEARS?
SPITZER TOO COCKY FOR OWN GOOD
SPITZER EXPLAINS HIS SIMPLE RULE FOR DOING
THINGS RIGHT
WHAT
MAKES A SPITZER
State
& local
- State lotteries rip off the poor
So much for Wisconsin's approach to
job creation
The great
hidden reason
why critics of Washington shouldn't support major federal budget
cuts: about one quarter of all state and local budgets are funded
by the federal government.
DC statehood bill introduced in Senate
States waste billions stealing jobs
from each other
Michigan Gets Replacement Emergency
Manager Law
Kasich decides not to privatize
Ohio Turnpike
State Subsidies to Attract Corporate
Investment Should be Banned
Mayoral election turnout is poor
across the nation
Why block grants don't work the
way they're meant to
Will Ohio privatize its freeway?
Southern California: If you don't
like it, ban it
Louisiana kills funding for public
libraries
Wisconsin based companies to treat
the way Scott Walker treats labor unions
Arizona says Christianity the
only religion allowed to be taught
States ripping off federal funds
intended for homeowners
California budget deficit soars
74%
Tennessee declares holding hands
a "gateway sexual activity"
Vermont nuclear battle shows why
states rights are important
Ten states that tax the poor the
most
State funded assistance to the
poor disappearing
The remarkable public service
depression
How not to get the economy moving
How corporations rip states off
State funding of education goes
down as Medicaid costs rise
Illinois says it can't afford
to bury the dead and poor
Wisconsin requires voter ID card,
now closing down ten DMV offices
HERE'S
THE LEGAL WAY TO BUY A GOVERNOR
How state legislators get told
what to do
State of the Union
address
Biggest cliches in State of the
Union addresses
Stein
Jill
Jill Stein clinches Green nomination
Green Party poll favors Stein
over Barr
Meet Jill Stern, Green Party candidate
for president
Super Junta
House committee chair rakes in
big bucks after being named to super junta
Democratic members of super junta
tell a false story about economy
Supreme Court
STUDY FINDS ROBERTS COURT HEAVILY PRO-BUSINESS
Rebuilding
America
Scandals
WASHINGTON'S SUPPRESSED PROSTITUTION CASE
Alan Simpson
ALAN SIMPSON RAILS AGAINST SENIORS AGAIN
Taxes
What offshore tax havens are costing
you and small business
Number of tax law pages triple
since 1984
Tea
Party
Tea Party knows public works help
the economy
TEA PARTY CANDIDATES TAKING BUCKS FROM FOREIGN
CORPORATIONS
TEA PARTY HAVING TROUBLE FILLING THE HALLS
THEY DON'T CALL IT A TEA PARTY FOR NOTHING
TEA PARTY & PROGRESSIVES FIND COMMON
GROUND ON ELECTION FUNDING
THE BILLIONAIRES BEHIND THE TEA PARTY
Third
parties
Colony of DC has four major parties
Gary Johnson files anti-trust
suit to get into debates
How fusion politics gives third
parties real power
What Gary Johnson is up to
Statement of Socialist Equality
Party presidential candidate
Rocky Anderson explains his presidential
campaign
Profiles of four third party presidential
candidates
Big secret money behind online
independent presidential scheme
Two progressive third party choices
in presidential race
Independents & third party
candidates do best since 1920s
CALIFORNIA APPROVES MEASURE THAT GREATLY
WEAKENS THIRD PARTIES
WHERE THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES ARE ALMOST
ROUTINE
SEIU PLANS THIRD PARTY IN NORTH CAROLINA
Trump, Donald
Trump hasn't voted in a primary
since 1989
Walker,
Scott
Scott Walker
Scott Walker finds something good
about unions
Warren, Elizabeth
Just a thought: Why not run Elizabeth
Warren for president on an anti-corruption platform?
Elizabeth Warren shows Democrats
how to do it
Washington
Things you can't talk about in
Washington
How DC's powerful take the pressure
off with a dominatrix
Washington elites speak to hundreds,
but declare speech "off the record"
THE SELECT FEW CALLING WASHINGTON'S SHOTS
WHO'S REALLY RUNNING WASHINGTON?
Welfare
State funded assistance to the
poor disappearing
Food stamps reduced poverty during
crash by 8%
Whistleblowing
IRS out to weaken its whistleblowing
program
Prosecution of whistleblowers
tipping off media has soared under Obama
White House
The rise of the White House staff
Meg Whitman
MEG WHITMAN SPENDS $119 MILLION OF OWN MONEY
TO BUY GOVERNORSHIP
Bush
BEHIND
THE BUSHES
BUSH
PHOTO ALBUM
General
CITIZENS
FOR LEGITIMATE GOVT
DEMOCRACY
RISING
DIRECT DEMOCRACY
DRINKING
LIBERALLY
LIBERAL
QUOTATIONS
OPEN
DEBATES
POLITICAL
MEET UPS
PROJECT
SOUTH
SELECT
SMART
Government oversight
CTR
FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY
CITIZEN WORKS
CITIZENS
FOR TAX JUSTICE
GOV
ACCOUNTIBLITY PRJCT
OPEN GOVERNMENT
PRJCT
ON GOV OVERSIGHT
PUBLIC
CITIZEN
TAXPAYERS
FOR COMMON SENSE
Green
EUROPEAN
GREENS
GREEN INSTITUTE
GREEN
PARTY OF U.S.
GREEN PARTIES WORLDWIDE
GREEN SHADOW CABINET
EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE
GREEN
HORIZON
GREEN PAGES
CRASHING
THE PARTY
DRIVING
MR. NADER
GORE
LOSS NOT DUE TO NADER
GREEN GOODIES
GREEN
HISTORY
GREEN
HISTORY CHART
GREENS
IN OFFICE
GREEN
GEAR
Voting records
PROGRESSIVE
PUNCH
Voting reform
BLACK
BOX VOTING
CENTER FOR VOTING &
DEMOCRACY
GUIDE
TO ALTERNATIVE VOTING SYSTEMS
INITIATIVE
& REFERENDA
INITIATIVE &
REFERENDA INSTITUTE
INSTANT RUNOFF
TEST BALLOT
REVIEW'S VOTE ARCHIVES
VERIFIED VOTING
VOTING
INTEGRITY
VOTING
SECURITY
VOTE SMART
VOTE
WATCH
AMERICAN
INDICATORS
AMERICAN
STATS
THE
FREE PRESS
LINKS
TO A NEW AMERICA
RECOVERED
HISTORY
SAM'S
FAVORITE QUOTES
WEB
TOOLS
Deficits
THE GREAT DEFICIT LIE
The chart above compiled by Stephen
Bloch shows the change in deficits during the administration
of all presidents from Harding to GW Bush. The only Republicans
to reduce the deficit were Dwight Eisenhower and Calvin Coolidge. |