Today hundreds of websites — including Wikipedia, reddit, BoingBoing, FreePress.net and SavetheInternet.com — have gone dark. They’re protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), bills in the House and Senate that could open the door to widespread Internet censorship.1 Thousands of supporters of the open Internet will soon rally […]

  As Americans’ incomes shrink and credit gets harder to come by, several industries have stepped in to make it harder for people to get from paycheck to paycheck. These businesses claim they’re filling a void left by mainstream lenders. But if you fall into the clutches of any of these outfits, you can find […]

That Andrew Sullivan can understand what a pragmatic progressive is doing as opposed to wide eyed snotty nose kids who instead of staying in the game spend their time complaining is sad. Get up and be the fill for the vacuum that lies within every politician as that vacuum will be filled. I disagree with […]

I found a little gem recently over the Internet and I simply decided to take the plunge and try it. I went to www.ooshirts.com (Tel: 510-944-4679) and tested it out. The design page was extremely simple as shown below. I fired the page up and in less than 15 minutes I had my design and […]

  by Eric Byler January 21 is the second anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, "Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission," and advocates on both sides of the corporate-personhood issue are making their voices heard.   Pro-democracy organizations like Move to Amend are protesting the decision with rallies at 100 Federal Court Houses, including the […]

You’ve probably heard about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA — a bill in the House that could open the door to widespread Internet censorship. Opposition to the bill has reached a boiling point. Millions of activists, hundreds of startups, social media sites like Tumblr, Reddit and Twitter and even big companies like Google, […]

It’s tough out there. Americans would love to hear some good news on jobs right now. We have a long road back, but our economy created 2 million new jobs last year alone.The Republican response? Attack the President and the policies that helped create those jobs. Republican politicians don’t want any news that could help […]

We need our leaders looking out for middle-class families, not taking away their rights.The National Labor Relations Board enforces the laws that hold big corporations accountable and protects our safety, health, and rights in the workplace. It’s no surprise Republicans in Congress have been using procedural gimmicks to make the NLRB powerless — so it […]