© Mike Luckovich I have never heard of a sitting president having to prove he is an American. This nonsense has got to stop. I don’t care if it is motivated by racism or just dislike of his policies. If we don’t stop the personal attacks and stick to the real issues and challenges facing […]
If you look over the evidence, you do have to wonder how he got into all those Ivy League schools: The dean looked over Barack’s transcript and college boards and then suggested in a kindly way that he apply to some less competitive colleges in addition to Columbia. There were no class rankings at his […]
© Tom Tomorrow Tom Tomorrow points out how we are sliding down this incline. First our stated goal was to protect civilians and we definitely, absolutely weren’t there to remove Qaddafi from power. Then we started saying that we would have to keep bombing until Qaddafi left, but that we would not put any boots […]
In 1946 the article “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” was published, laying out the policy of containment that proposed that the best way to defeat the Soviet Union was not to attack it, but to contain it. If the US was able to merely counteract Soviet influence, then the internal problems of their communist system […]
© Jen Sorensen Who says we are running out of energy? We as a nation spend an unbelievable amount of energy on politics (longest election campaigns in the world!), birth certificates, stopping gay marriage, being afraid, and texting while driving.
When a corporation cheats each of their customers out of a small amount of money, it generally isn’t worth it for an individual to sue them. Consider the California couple who objected to a questionable $30 charge on their cellphone bill. This problem is exactly why class-action lawsuits were invented. By banding together, disgruntled consumers […]
In 2008, ExxonMobil set a record for making the most profits in a year, breaking their own former record. Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. According to the Wall Street Journal, spiking oil prices are set to lift earnings of ExxonMobil by around 50% compared to last year. Will they again break their record? Win […]
Another in a series of quotes that would have gotten Ronald Reagan kicked out of the modern Republican party: These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland … They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. Watch the video here.
I’m sure you’ve heard about the document mills that forged mortgage papers for banks so the banks could foreclose on people’s homes. According to Matt Taibbi: Put it this way. If the banks had to pay what they actually owed – from the registration taxes/fees they avoided by using the electronic registry system MERS to […]
© Dan Wasserman S&P threatens to lower our credit rating. Is the banking industry just threatening us in order to maintain their power?
© Mike Luckovich The current field of Republican candidates is the best thing Obama has going for his reelection efforts.
GE reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue. Their total earnings were $3.4 billion, but over half that came from the company’s banking division, whose earnings tripled from just a year ago. GE has recently faced criticisms because it paid no US taxes last year, and because it designed all six failed nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima […]
The Tea Party movement was largely funded and promoted by large corporations like the Koch brothers and Fox News, and one of their main goals is tax cuts. But ironically, the original Boston Tea Party was actually a protest against what was then the world’s largest multinational corporation. The event that triggered it was — […]
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