Mitt Romney is not doing well with women voters. A new USA TODAY/Gallup poll shows that President Obama is faring much better than Mitt Romney in the swing states that will likely decide the next President of the United States – and women are part of the reason why. Of wo …
March 21, 2012 | As the unemployment rate still sits above 8 percent, and one in three Americans struggles to afford medical bills, even the filthiest of filthy rich presidential candidates is at least pretending to empathize with the avera …
n 2010, as the nation slowly ground its way from Great Recession to recovery, 93 percent of national income gains went to the richest 1 percent of Americans. As Reuters’s David Cay Johnston pointed out today, this makes the 2010 recovery quite different from the recovery …
Finally, the House passed a jobs bill last week. And what a bill it is! Officially called the Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups Act, it calls for reopening our capital markets to exciting new start-ups by ridding protections for investors and stripping away disclosure requirem …
Extra-marital dating website Ashley Madison has offered to buy all excess ad inventory for the next three months from advertisers who have pulled out of Rush Limbaugh's show, according to a letter from CEO Noel Biderman posted yesterday on Adrants. As advertisers continue to f …
Rush Limbaugh's recent barrage of sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke are being described as a "new low" for the radio host, which is a remarkable feat given Limbaugh's decades-long resume of misogynistic smears and attacks on women. To provide a proper understanding of just how fa …
While Sears downsizes and lays off employees, company chairman Edward Lampert is buying a sprawling estate on a semi-private island. The billionaire hedge fund manager and chairman of Sears Holdings Corp.
If we can pass a bill allowing employers to refuse to give employees birth control coverage for religious or moral reasons, then we have to also allow people to object to paying for health insurance for veterans. People who are pacifists - whether for religious or nonr …
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As many as two million public sector workers are on strike in Britain today, a number which accounts for 1 out of every 30 citizens in the country (that would be the equivalent of 10 million people going on strike in America).
Even those people putting their lives on the line for their country may not be safe from the American foreclosure crisis. Ten lenders are reviewing close to 5,000 foreclosures of homes belonging to active-duty service members in an attempt to discover if they were carried out …
Call it the allocation of the immaculate conception — an unrequested $1.5 million surreptitiously folded into legislation even while $3.8 billion was being ripped from the state budget with brutal cuts in education and infrastructure and state worker pensions and programs …
On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold th …
Even as Republicans and CEOs of major companies complain that taxes are stifling job creation, corporations have been sitting on trillions of dollars in cash reserves, at some of the highest levels on record.
November 16, 2011 - What's the biggest story of the last several weeks? Rick Perry’s moment of silence, all 53 seconds' worth? The Penn State riots after revered coach JoePa went down in a child sex abuse scandal? The Kardashian wedding/divorce? The European debt crisi …
In the last decade, U.S.-based multinational companies have been on a hiring spree, adding over 2 million new jobs.
BOTH the American economy and the global economy are facing a familiar foe: policy defeatism.
The public should realize that “generational warfare” is an agenda that was deliberately designed by the 1 percent to distract the rest of us from the class war that they have been successfully waging over the last three decades.
If there were any lingering doubts as to whom our elected representatives really work for, they were put to rest Tuesday when Congress announced that frozen pizza was a vegetable.
The Decentralized Demands The common denominator running through the “journalism” covering this entire Occupy movement is the snide derision and outright lies that seems a prerequisite for covering the story, all the while missing the point about the very real outr …
We live in troubled and ironic times. The times are certainly troubled.
I’ve seen so many shocking photos and videos of police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters and their far-flung supporters around the country.
Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies, absurdities, trivia and celebrity gossip we feed you in 24-hour cycles on television. Invest your emotional energy in the vast system of popular entertainment. Run up your credit card debt.
John Paulson, the hedge-fund trader who famously made billions betting on the collapse of the housing market, was threatened by the demonstrators with a march on his Upper East Side home in New York last month.
Public mistrust for banks may be at an all-time high, but federal prosecution for certain financial crimes is down to a 20-year low. The federal government is on track to file just 1,365 prosecutions for financial institution fraud in fiscal year 2011, according to a new repor …
Talking with the veterans about the challenge of navigating the Veterans Affairs bureaucracy to get their health care benefits after they leave active duty, Romney suggested a way to improve the system would be to privatize it. “Sometimes you wonder, would there be somew …
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I have called the GOP/TP'ers Fascists based upon what I see as their social and political agendas. That always receives rants from their shills about how they are not Nazi's or Fascists. I agree to a point. They have not yet become the force they seek to be, but …
I was looking for information on the ranking of top industries which corrupt our government and democracy. Notice how often Ron Paul appears as the top beneficiary of corruption. No more Mr. Nice Guy, eh? The man's a crook, and he's good at it.
Mitt Romney is not doing well with women voters. A new USA TODAY/Gallup poll shows that President Obama is faring much better than Mitt Romney in the swing states that will likely decide the next President of the United States – and women are part of the reason why. Of wo …
Rush Limbaugh is under fire for engaging in misogyny and sexism, but in addition to that his show has been used as a venue to mock human suffering, including victims of natural disasters and those stricken with various maladies.
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