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Aug 27, 2013
3 min

The Federal Government Didn’t Lose the War on Poverty — It Retreated

Anthony W. Orlando: Lecturer in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Los Angeles – Posted: 08/25/2013 6:26 pm In 1904, half the population of New York City lived below the poverty line. Half. Can you imagine? The poor were so numerous that they nearly outnumbered everyone else. Today, less than 20 percent of New Yorkers live in poverty. That’s still a serious problem, but it’s a far cry from 50 percent. Clearly, we did something right. But in

How We All Got Stuck Paying the Medical Bills of the Woman Who Sued to Kill Obamacare

Jay Murdock

Mar 13, 2012
4 min

How We All Got Stuck Paying the Medical Bills of the Woman Who Sued to Kill Obamacare

Wendell Potter: Analyst at MSNBC and the Center for Public Integrity Posted: 03/12/2012 7:26 am If I were trying to persuade the Supreme Court later this month that Obamacare should not be declared unconstitutional, I would tell the story of the woman who was the original named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the fiercest critics of the health care reform law. The NFIB thought it had found the perfect person when one

Jay Murdock

Sep 20, 2011
4 min

You Bet It’s Class Warfare

Andy Ostroy Political & pop culture analyst Posted: 9/19/11 11:00 AM ET Its called the “Millionaire’s Tax”, and it’s pure genius. Finally, President Obama and Democrats have caught on to the power and importance of branding. My God, it’s almost Rovian in its sheer simplicity and potential impact. The tax is a brilliant scheme by the president to achieve his goal of taxing the rich and creating more equity in the lopsided tax code, and in the process funding his American Job

Jay Murdock

Sep 15, 2011
4 min

Tea Party America

Paul Stoller, Professor of Anthropology, West Chester University; Author, ‘The Power of the Between’ :Posted: 9/14/11 02:22 PM ET By now there has been much discussion about the crowd reaction at the two most recent Republican presidential candidate debates. In the GOP debate at the Reagan Presidential Library, the crowd enthusiastically applauded the fact that Rick Perry has overseen 234 executions during his tenure as governor of Texas. To the crowd’s delight, Governor P

Growing Economic Inequality the Root Cause of Economic Stagnation

Jay Murdock

Jul 12, 2011
8 min

Growing Economic Inequality the Root Cause of Economic Stagnation

Robert Creamer – Political organizer, strategist and author Posted: 7/11/11 09:03 AM ET Last Friday’s jobs numbers showed a net growth of only 18,000 new jobs nationwide — while the economy must produce 150,000 jobs each month just to absorb population growth. Clearly the economic recovery has stalled and Republicans are pointing to the slowdown as evidence that American economic policy must once again turn sharply to the right. Trouble is, rather than being a solution to our

Medicare Doesn’t Need to Be Sacrificed to Solve our Budget Woes

Jay Murdock

Jul 1, 2011
3 min

Medicare Doesn’t Need to Be Sacrificed to Solve our Budget Woes

Carolyn Maloney – U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th District Posted: 06/30/11 04:39 PM ET Forty-five years ago today, when the Medicare program was launched, only 51% of Americans 65 and older had health coverage and nearly 30% of seniors lived below the poverty line despite the fact that social security had been in existence for thirty years. Today, the situation is vastly improved, thanks to the overwhelming success of Medicare. Virtually all Americans aged 65 and o

From Muslims to Medicare, Republicans Are Selling Fear Again

Jay Murdock

Jun 16, 2011
4 min

From Muslims to Medicare, Republicans Are Selling Fear Again

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Consultant, Writer, Senior Fellow with The Campaign for America’s Future – Posted: 06/15/11 12:50 PM ET Fear never goes out of fashion. Once again Republicans are dealing in fear instead of facts, and why not? It’s worked in the past, and a nation that’s locked in seemingly permanent recession and high unemployment may be in the market for some scapegoats. Monday’s Republican presidential debate was the opening salvo in a tawdry little war on truth that’s

Jay Murdock

May 13, 2011
3 min

The Battle for the Soul of the GOP

The real battle for the soul of the GOP started today with a speech on Wall Street by Speaker of the House John Boehner. Wall Street and big business fear Tea Partiers won’t allow House Republicans to raise the debt ceiling without major spending cuts – and without tax increases on the wealthy. Wall Street and big business know this would be unacceptable to the White House and congressional Democrats. The Street and big business want to tame the budget deficit but they don’t

Jay Murdock

Apr 21, 2011
6 min

That Old ‘Which Side Are You On?’ Thing

Mike Lux – Author, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be Posted: 04/20/11 05:20 PM ET Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and the House Republicans, led by Paul Ryan, have done progressives and Democrats a huge favor. We are more unified than we have been since Election Day 2008, and it is a great feeling. Because Republicans want to destroy — just utterly destroy — unions, Medicare, Medicaid, and pretty much the entire safety net, the progressi

America’s Richest Taxpayers See Federal Taxes Dramatically Drop

Jay Murdock

Apr 17, 2011
4 min

America’s Richest Taxpayers See Federal Taxes Dramatically Drop

STEPHEN OHLEMACHER 04/17/11 08:47 AM ET WASHINGTON — As millions of procrastinators scramble to meet Monday’s tax filing deadline, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago, and nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all. The Internal Revenue Service tracks the tax returns with the 400 highest adjusted gross incomes each year. The average income on those returns in 2007, the latest year for IRS data, was nearly $34

Jay Murdock

Apr 15, 2011
6 min

It’s All One Story

Mike Lux – Author, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be Posted: 04/14/11 01:02 PM ET I’m going to comment on the president’s budget speech in a minute, but first I want to highlight something happening on Capitol Hill today that really ties together the Republican governing philosophy. There is a certain rich irony in Darrell Issa bringing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to the Capitol for a hearing on how Moody’s has boosted Wisconsin’s credit rating be

Jay Murdock

Apr 12, 2011
3 min

What Obama, Tea Party Have in Common

Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 5:22 am By: Deborah Mathis – BlackAmericaWeb.com What might President Obama and the congressional Tea Partiers have in common? After vowing to change the way Washington works, both have learned that the cemetery of American politics is filled with the bones of crushed intentions and trampled vows. The president campaigned as a consensus builder, a man married to the notion that reason and civility are transcendent qualities that, when earnestly

Pay Much Attention to the Insurers Behind Paul Ryan’s Curtain

Jay Murdock

Apr 8, 2011
5 min

Pay Much Attention to the Insurers Behind Paul Ryan’s Curtain

Wendell Potter – Former insurance company executive; author Posted: 04/ 7/11 09:10 AM ET Democrats who think Paul Ryan and his Republican colleagues have foolishly wrapped their arms around the third rail of American politics by proposing to hand the Medicare program to private insurers will themselves look foolish if they take for granted that the public will always be on their side. Rep. Ryan’s budget proposal would radically reshape both the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Cutting Spending, Slashing Recovery, and Burning the Middle Class

Jay Murdock

Apr 7, 2011
4 min

Cutting Spending, Slashing Recovery, and Burning the Middle Class

Andrew Fieldhouse – Federal Budget Policy Analyst, Economic Policy Institute Posted: 04/ 6/11 06:50 PM ET Yesterday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R.-Wisc.) released a budget resolution for next fiscal year that would slash federal spending by roughly $5.8 trillion over the next decade, while simultaneously cutting taxes by $4.2 trillion, relative to current law. Roughly $1.4 trillion would be stripped from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program to

One Year Later: Health Care Reform a Law Worth Keeping

Jay Murdock

Mar 24, 2011
4 min

One Year Later: Health Care Reform a Law Worth Keeping

Wendell Potter: Former insurance company executive; author Posted: March 24, 2011 08:45 AM Is the health care reform law a good deal for Americans or is it so badly flawed that Congress should repeal it? Now that the measure is one year old — President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to law on March 23, 2010 — I humbly suggest we attempt an unbiased assessment of what the law really means to us and where we need to go from here. To do that in a mea

Lessons Learned From the Affordable Care Act

Jay Murdock

Mar 18, 2011
3 min

Lessons Learned From the Affordable Care Act

Sen. Tom Carper: U.S. Senator from DelawarePosted: March 17, 2011 12:02 PM Yesterday one of the committees on which I serve, the Senate Finance Committee, held a hearing on the lessons learned from the first year of implementing of our comprehensive health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act. This is a welcome opportunity to take a step back and take a look at the impact of this historic legislation over the course of its first year, and specifically focus on the new law

This Isn’t Deficit Control. It’s Assault.

Jay Murdock

Feb 17, 2011
3 min

This Isn’t Deficit Control. It’s Assault.

Richard Trumka – President, AFL-CIO: Posted: February 16, 2011 09:17 AM No job safety inspections while inspectors are furloughed for up to three months. No food safety inspections while inspectors are off the job for more than a month. Ten thousand teachers and aides cut from struggling schools and 7,000 special education teachers and staff gone. State and local job training and employment services phased out for up to 8 million workers. Medicare and Social Security operatio

Kuhner: “Republicans must wage an all-out assault on Mr. Obama’s presidency”

Jay Murdock

Jan 7, 2011
1 min

Kuhner: “Republicans must wage an all-out assault on Mr. Obama’s presidency”

In a January 6 Washington Times op-ed, Jeffrey Kuhner wrote “Republicans must wage an all-out assault on Mr. Obama’s presidency. They must pursue a scorched-earth strategy.” He further stated that “[t]he duty of a loyal opposition is to oppose the governing party. It is not to help that party pass legislation or improve the economy’s performance.” From Kuhner’s op-ed: The duty of a loyal opposition is to oppose the governing party. It is not to help that party pass legislatio

Jay Murdock

Jan 4, 2011
2 min

ObamaCare? You Bet He Does

Communications, media and political strategist Posted: January 4, 2011 09:48 AM Americans have known our health care system was broken for years. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, tragic stories about health care were the number one subject that people talked to then candidate Obama about. So what is the Republican’s top agenda now in Congress? To repeal the progress that has been made. Let’s take this fight on with relish this time. I am cheering on the House Democrats

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The Federal Government Didn’t Lose the War on Poverty — It Retreated

How We All Got Stuck Paying the Medical Bills of the Woman Who Sued to Kill Obamacare

You Bet It’s Class Warfare

Tea Party America

Growing Economic Inequality the Root Cause of Economic Stagnation

Medicare Doesn’t Need to Be Sacrificed to Solve our Budget Woes

From Muslims to Medicare, Republicans Are Selling Fear Again

The Battle for the Soul of the GOP

That Old ‘Which Side Are You On?’ Thing

America’s Richest Taxpayers See Federal Taxes Dramatically Drop

It’s All One Story

What Obama, Tea Party Have in Common

Pay Much Attention to the Insurers Behind Paul Ryan’s Curtain

Cutting Spending, Slashing Recovery, and Burning the Middle Class

One Year Later: Health Care Reform a Law Worth Keeping

Lessons Learned From the Affordable Care Act

This Isn’t Deficit Control. It’s Assault.

Kuhner: “Republicans must wage an all-out assault on Mr. Obama’s presidency”

ObamaCare? You Bet He Does

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The Federal Government Didn’t Lose the War on Poverty — It Retreated

How We All Got Stuck Paying the Medical Bills of the Woman Who Sued to Kill Obamacare

You Bet It’s Class Warfare

Tea Party America

Growing Economic Inequality the Root Cause of Economic Stagnation

Medicare Doesn’t Need to Be Sacrificed to Solve our Budget Woes

From Muslims to Medicare, Republicans Are Selling Fear Again

The Battle for the Soul of the GOP

That Old ‘Which Side Are You On?’ Thing

America’s Richest Taxpayers See Federal Taxes Dramatically Drop

It’s All One Story

What Obama, Tea Party Have in Common

Pay Much Attention to the Insurers Behind Paul Ryan’s Curtain

Cutting Spending, Slashing Recovery, and Burning the Middle Class

One Year Later: Health Care Reform a Law Worth Keeping

Lessons Learned From the Affordable Care Act

This Isn’t Deficit Control. It’s Assault.

Kuhner: “Republicans must wage an all-out assault on Mr. Obama’s presidency”

ObamaCare? You Bet He Does

"Do not seek to follow the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

Basho

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News and Opinion Channel

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The Hartmann Report

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The Banter - Washington DC

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