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Obama has been, in this writer’s opinion, on balance, a failure.  And unlike our conservative colleagues who rally round their leaders in slavish, thrall-like adoration, unquestioning and unchallenging regardless of their inadequacies, I believe progressives should be better than that.  We have to be better than that.  Through moral obligation, we must hold…

Eisenhauer warned us about the Military-Industrial Complex.  He warned us that we would all become captive to the desires of a small number of companies.  Well, now we have another unholy public-private alliance to fear: The US Prison-Industrial Complex. Imagine my (non) surprise to learn that when you turn prisons…

ALEC, the now-infamous American Legislative Exchange Council, has opted to step back from non-economic legislation which was, until now, their raison d’être.  Apparently losing a large chunk of your corporate sponsors can really have an impact on a group like ALEC.  Overturning the rock they were hiding under has proven to…

Over the weekend, two of the most knowledgeable people on our economy spoke up and neither were very kind to Paul Ryan (R – Wall St). The first is Nobel laureate economist and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz: “Democracies can withstand cuts without seeing light at the end of the…

Holy crap!  Let’s hope this look-alike set is as close to the actual Oval Office that Beck ever gets…  Ever. The set, which Beck has nicknamed “The Oval,” will make its debut on his daily program Monday as part of a regular segment of the show in which he’ll be…

Public-sector job losses don’t count. Except when they do. One way to dramatize just how severe our de facto austerity has been is to compare government employment and spending during the Obama-era economic expansion, which began in June 2009, with their tracks during the Reagan-era expansion, which began in November…

Why is Communist China better at capitalism than we are?

Kathleen Falk for Governor! One year ago today was my first day at the protests. I know that the official anniversary is February 14th, I missed the first day. In the past year we have had many successes and many failures but every day has been a battle. The State…

It’s like Reaganomics, only dumber…

Ron Paul is famous for bemoaning (“be-whining?”) the control the Federal Reserve has over the economy and has committed to ending the Federal Reserve if he’s elected President.  Of course he will never be elected President.  Overt racists haven’t held the Presidency since Wilson (although Nixon was certainly a closet…