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Louis Farrakhan: Jews Have ‘Undeniable Record’ Of Black Oppression
Jun 30th
CHICAGO — Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking “repair of my people from the damage” he claims Jews have caused blacks for centuries
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Loading ...Matthew Anderson: America’s on "Lockdown"
Jun 30th
I’ve noticed that people in my city no longer populate the roadways, corridors, highways and passageways as they used to. People are not traveling with the same frequency as before the great “Recession.” People’s purchase patterns differ also. Discount stores are experiencing a heyday, a renaissance, where patrons openly attend these establishments with a greater frequency and a more diminished embarrassment than before
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Katie Stoynoff: A Quick Solution to the Health Care Debate
Jun 30th
As some of the deadlines approach for the implementation of the Health Care Reform Bill, many are still up in arms about the government “mandating” them to carry health insurance (a requirement that does not take full effect until 2014). For those that believe this is a violation of the Constitution and an affront to your rights, I have a suggestion. Stop seeking medical treatment.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dr. Jim Taylor: Can We Find Common Ground?
Jun 30th
All the talk these days in politics is about how polarized America has become. There is certainly plenty of partisanship reverberating through the hallowed halls of Congress, what with the constant threat of filibusters and the passage of the health-care law by “budget reconciliation.” Not a lot of bipartisan pizza parties happening on the Hill, that’s for sure. And the polarization is deafening on the airwaves and in cyberspace
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Unemployment Benefits Bill Fails In House, 261-155
Jun 29th
Democrats in both chambers of Congress are scrambling to pass legislation to reauthorize expired unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless before a looming July 4 recess. One such measure failed in a 261-155 House vote on Tuesday. Bill cosponsor Rep.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Potentially ‘Thousands’ Of Homeowners Improperly Denied Obama Mortgage Modifications, Administration Admits
Jun 29th
Potentially “thousands” of troubled homeowners were denied opportunities to lower their monthly mortgage payments under the Obama administration’s signature foreclosure-prevention plan due to servicer errors and inadequate oversight by the Treasury Department, a government audit has found.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sarah Stephens: The House Agriculture Committee Asks America to step off the sidelines in Cuba
Jun 29th
When Darsi Ferrer, a Cuban dissident emerged from nearly a year’s confinement for buying black market construction materials, a reporter asked him who should get the credit for his release.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Michael Winship: In Summer’s Heat, Washington Seeks Refuge in the Loophole
Jun 29th
Michael Winship I spent part of last week in Washington, DC, and the heat already was so oppressive I recalled the old story that during the summer the British Foreign Service used to classify the capital as a hardship post, allowing embassy employees to go about their official business clad in pith helmets and shorts. In pre-air conditioning days, the federal government simply shut down so civil servants could escape to some shade and swoon in the sanctuary of a cold drink. But now the bureaucracy grinds on regardless of the temperature, and even as Congress works its way toward summer recess, its members remain active, or at least maintain the appearance of activity, especially with midterm elections just a little more than four months away.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Thurgood Marshall On Trial: Republican Senators Use Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court Hearing To Trash Her Mentor (VIDEO)
Jun 29th
Republican senators sound increasingly unlikely to try and block Elena Kagan’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, owing perhaps in part to public apathy , but in the meantime they’ve focused some of their attention on an even more difficult target: former Justice Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights pioneer, the first African-American to sit on the high court and one of Kagan’s self-avowed heroes, for whom she clerked early in her career. Marshall’s name came up 35 times during the first day of Kagan’s confirmation hearings, compared to 14 mentions of President Obama, by Talking Points Memo’s count
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Keli Goff: Should the Children of Candidates Always Be Off-Limits? As Meg Whitman Reminds Us, Not Always
Jun 29th
There seemed to be few issues that the final candidates in the 2008 presidential election agreed on, except for one.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Deepak Bhargava: The Local Jobs for America Act: Why Aren’t More Politicians Supporting Legislation Americans Need and Want?
Jun 28th
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Richard (RJ) Eskow: What I Saw at "AmericaSpeaks": A Mind Control Experiment Gone Horribly Right
Jun 28th
After much hype and buildup, the America Speaks “national town meeting” on cutting the deficit was held on Saturday. I watched the proceedings via webcast for much of the morning, knowing that Digby was liveblogging it and David Dayen was on the scene here in Southern California, so that I could take part in a radio interview before heading out to experience the event in person.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rep. Alan Grayson: Which Party is the Peace Party?
Jun 28th
Me: “Why are people so uninformed and apathetic about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?” Right-winger: “I don’t know, and I don’t care.” A recent poll showed that almost twice as many Americans think that we are losing the war in Afghanistan as think that we are winning it.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ashley B. Carson: Older Women Rally Nationwide
Jun 28th
The Older Women’s League (OWL) rallied this weekend. They organized rallies with members of MoveOn.org outside of “town hall” meetings in 6 cities nationwide, because they were worried.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Elena Kagan Confirmation Hearing: Opening Statement (EXCERPTS)
Jun 28th
On Monday, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is facing members the Senate Judiciary Committee on the opening day of her confirmation hearings. The White House has released excerpts of her opening statement: “Mr. Chairman, the law school I had the good fortune to lead has a kind of motto, spoken each year at graduation
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Roger Hickey: In Deficit "Town Meetings," People Reject America Speaks Stacked Deck
Jun 27th
On Saturday, the group known as America Speaks (funded by Wall Street mogul Peter G. Peterson and two other foundations) brought together several thousand people in meetings in 60 cities
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