Occupy Wall Street: Citibank was stupid, Chase was smarter
(Crossposted from RedGreenAndBlue.org) By now just about everyone in the country must know that 23 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were arrested Saturday in Manhattan when they attempted to close...
View ArticleAre Occupy Wall Street's tents free speech? Mayor Bloomberg says no.
What is free speech? According to the Supreme Court, money that corporations spend to influence elections is free speech, and cannot be limited. But it seems a lot of our officials think it's perfectly...
View ArticleThe Reaganization of the Romnibot
Well, could have seen this coming.The media appear to be anointing Romney as the winner of debate #1, just as they anointed Ronald Reagan the winner of his first debate, and Bush II the winner of his...
View ArticleDinesh D'Souza's Binders full of Women... lead to unemployment (his)
If you haven't been following the story, here's a quick summary:Right wing family-values firebrand Dinesh D'Souza has been fired from his cushy sinecure at the evangelical Kings College after he was...
View ArticleI just had a weird push-poll call in Oregon
Well, that was strange.I got a call from a (mumble-mumble-vaguely-political-sounding) firm here in Oregon (sorry, I didn't catch the name).The young lady on the phone said they had a few questions for...
View ArticleWhy does the GOP want you to eat less red meat?
Think the impending sequester won't affect you? Guess again... one result could be a meat shortage, starting in April.Remember all those fun salmonella outbreaks? The FDA has a team of inspectors that...
View ArticleAnyone have spare bed/floor space for Netroots Nation?
I didn't think I'd be able to get to Netroots Nation - but now it looks like I can get there. All I need now is a place to lay my head.Anyone need a roommate? I have $ to contribute. And I'm fine just...
View ArticleBudget agreement! GOP backs down from ransom demands
We finally have a budget agreement.After years of partisan bickering and the GOP pushing the Federal Government into shutdown, lawmakers agreed on a compromise proposal that now goes to the House and...
View ArticleFarm bill compromise agreed to? With only modest gutting of food stamps
Nothing is writ in stone yet, but after literally years of bickering, the House and Senate conferees have agreed on a $1 trillion Farm Billthat would cut some subsidies to agribusiness, while not...
View ArticleKeystone XL - State Department says no major environmental impact (!)
Oh, the chutzpah.An environmental impact statement (written by a consulting firm under investigation for lying about their extensive oil-industry ties) has concluded that the Keystone XL pipeline will...
View ArticleHow do pandering Blue Dogs do? They lose
You know what happens to conservative Democrats who run away from their party, push the party toward the center, and block Democratic objectives in the name of "moderation"?They lose.There were only 19...
View ArticlePerspective on the Immigration Debate: Bush used discretion to NOT file Civil...
Next time the GOP whines about immigration, remind them about the Civil Rights Division in the Bush era Justice Department.You want to talk about "Prosecutorial Discretion" and Presidents deciding how...
View ArticleAt Miami Debate, Kasich tells the GOP that climate change is real (as Rubio...
For the first time in the 2016 Presidential election, a national Republican audience has been told that climate change is real.Whether that will sink in or not remains to be seen. But we can hope.It...
View ArticleWhat's Trump been spending his money on? Fundraising!
He’s not spending it on ads. He’s not spending it on infrastructure. So a lot of us have been wondering… what the heck has Trump been spending money on?Now, thanks to the July FEC filings, we know the...
View ArticleNew poll - Gary Johnson at 16%!
The good news for Libertarian Gary Johnson: Clinton 40%, Trump 31%, Johnson 16%, Stein 4% (PPP)The bad news: That’s a poll of NEW MEXICO.Yes, the State of which Gary Johnson was the GOP GOVERNOR.In...
View ArticleCA-34 Special Primary election results liveblog
It’s been flying under the radar, but today was the first special Congressional election of 2017 — in the heavily Democratic 34th District of California, in the heart of Los Angeles.Update: Here are...
View ArticlePrivatization: Trump's infrastructure "plan" is a sell-off, starting with Air...
Resident Trump says he’s going to spend the next week pushing his so-called infrastructure proposals, which are actually just an excuse to sell off YOUR public assets to his buddies. He’s putting...
View ArticleAt G20, it's G19 vs Trump.
(Cross-posted from RedGREENandBlue.org — Politics and the Environment.)It’s not too late to bring the US back into the global mainstream on climate change action, and with the US outnumbered 19 to 1 at...
View ArticleNaturally, if Trump approves new Arctic drilling, it's got to be a...
It hasn't even been two years since Shell abandoned it's stupid and expensive arctic oil drilling campaign. But the Trump administration - that never met a stupid idea it wasn't gung-ho in favor of -...
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Can coal baron Don Blankenship go straight from jail to the Senate?
Normally one runs for Senate FIRST and only AFTERWARD goes to jail, but these are not normal times.In yet another sign of the total destruction of norms and even human decency in the Trump era,...
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