ThinkProgress reports: One week after House Republicans passed an amendment that effectively deports DREAMers, undocumented high school students held a peaceful protest in Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) office. In their caps and gowns, the undocumented members of United We Dream occupied his office during regular hours to advocate for immigration reform. … King regularly introduces […]
A Middle Class Win – Supreme Court Says Human Genes Cannot Be Patented
The Supreme Court has ruled as it should. What makes this decision even more salient is that the decision was unanimous. Human genes cannot be patented. The background to the case is chilling. On May 12, 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation filed a lawsuit against Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah […]
Unemployment Falls But New Jobs Pay Low Wages–World Wage Normalization?
While it is great to see the unemployment rate starting to fall, that the new jobs being created are low wages is a sinister outcome caused by 30 years of bad policy. The American Plutocracy has sacrificed the working middle class. They’ve done it by exporting labor to slave labor countries. They’ve supported policies that […]
NSA Surveillance Story Already Covered In 2006–Media Hype Again
It turns out that the NSA story was already told in 2006. The only difference now is that it is done under warrants authorized by the FISA court. That is an improvement as it not just the Executive Branch in sole control, checks and balance. NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls Updated 5/11/2006 […]
He Was For NSA Surveillance Before He Wasn’t (VIDEO)
Back in 2006 during the Bush administration, when the same type of surveillance was under the apparent cyclical scrutiny, Sean Hannity became the biggest supporter of the policy. In fact on his show he excoriated those who opposed it many times. The Mediamatters mash up below is a classic that shows the hypocrisy. While this […]
Right Wing Republican: War In GOP If Immigration Reform Passes (AUDIO)
Pat Buchanan and Laura Ingraham are at it again on the radio on immigration reform. In a previous broadcast he said that Republicans are working with the Gang of 8 because they were terrified of the 71% to 27% Latino shellacking Republicans took versus President Obama. He said they were in a political panic and […]
NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden A Reason To Get Rid Of Government Contracting
What would the headlines be on Fox News if Edward Snowden, the leaker of NSA confidential information, had worked directly for the government? It is not hard to imagine them talking about the ineptitude of government and government workers. Next they would likely say the private sector would do a better job. According to the […]
Colonoscopy, A Justification For Obamacare But Single Payer Is Still Best
Last week I read the New York Times article “The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill” by Elisabeth Rosenthal. The article started with the following chart. Suffice it to say that anyone reading the above chart should be appalled. The chart above shows that Americans are paying much more for the same procedures, at times by several […]
Bill Maher: Ronald Reagan No Different Than Today’s Tea Party (VIDEO)
Ronald Reagan was Tea Party? Bill Maher started his New Rule with a quote from a Bob Dole interview. Dole said the Republican Party had become a party of idea free ideologues who obstructed too much. He also stated that Ronald Reagan himself could not have made it as a Republican. Bill Maher took exception […]
Will Women Stop Voting For Men That Diminish Their Worth? (VIDEO)
Men are just as smart as women. Women in the real world have generally been the smarter sex. Inasmuch as it is still a male dominated society on paper, women allow most outcomes. One can assume it has much to do with biological urges that a patriarchal culture has ‘imposed’ on men. Many women describe […]
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