This is a telling piece by Jon Stewart. It is funny but quite insightful and to the point. One can only wonder why the “real journalists allow political spinners & hacks to get away with the manufacture of information usually unchallenged. The reason Americans are so misinformed is either because main stream media is not […]

Rick Perry claims he represents Texas values. But Perry’s Texas is different than our Texas. In Rick Perry’s Texas, state boards and agencies are pressured from the top to serve those who help the governor’s re-election. In our Texas, government will be the servant, not the master, and our customers will be ordinary Texans. In […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, June 29, 2010 NEW VIDEO: What do Rick Perry’s friends do for him? Anything to keep him in power, that’s fine by him HOUSTON — The Bill White for Texas campaign today released a web video highlighting the history of Rick Perry and Mike Toomey. Toomey, Perry’s close friend and former […]

Republicans are using the nomination of Elena Kagan to re-litigate their Democratic Dixiecrat past in the process attempting to demean, marginalize, and rewrite the accomplishment of of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a stalwart of the Supreme court. Viewers are encouraged to subscribe and join the conversation for more insightful commentary and to support progressive messages. Together, […]

Twisting arms, trading votes — unless 60 Senators vote YES this week, the first overhaul of our outdated financial laws since the Great Depression could go down in defeat. We didn’t get everything we wanted in the final negotiations – we lost the auto dealer loophole by just one vote. But we got a lot: […]

  Having just finishing Jonathan Alter’s "The Promise", these comments from Clinton almost knocked me of the chair.  If i had to bet today, i’m not sure i would put a lot of money on president Obama having another term – either because he’ll just say ‘the hell with it’ (Or Michelle will…, or simply […]

Senator McCain true to form does what Republicans have been doing for years, if there is no data to back your assertion simply create the data and assert it. Unfortunately the average American listening to a Senator would justifiably assume a renowned Senator would not outright lie. It is for this reason that lies like […]

  Recessions are common; depressions are rare. As far as I can tell, there were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as “depressions” at the time: the years of deflation and instability that followed the Panic of 1873 and the years of mass unemployment that followed the financial crisis of 1929-31. […]

The raw article that shows the effect of the tax cuts fiasco and its effects on our budget deficit going forward can be viewed at http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1811.  http://www.cbpp.org/… Why not pound this fact home over and over and over again. The very people that are calling the unemployed "funemployed" are enjoying the very same tax cuts […]

This illustrates the hypocrisy of those in the Tea Party and the GOP leadership. Corporate welfare has always cost the American taxpayer much more than the pittance  that’s given to those in need or even the small number of scourges who abuse the system. The reality is the system is abused much more by corporate […]