There's a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Deal With a Jobs Crisis -- Why Is Germany Doing It So Well?

Can we learn anything from countries that weathered the Great Recession better than we did?

America’s Forgotten Liberal

JANUARY was the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, and the planet nearly stopped turning on its axis to recognize the occasion. Today is the 100th anniversary of Hubert H. Humphrey’s birth, and no one besides me seems to have noticed.

36 Statistics Which Prove That The American Dream Is Turning Into An Absolute Nightmare For The Middle Class

Unless fundamental changes are made economically, financially and politically, the long-term trends that are destroying the U.S. middle class will continue to do so.

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WELL I'M NOT GOING TO LEAVE YOU ALONE! I WANT YOU TO GET MAD!!

I'M A HUMAN BEING GOD DAMMIT MY LIFE HAS VALUE!!!!!

Thought Police: How the Tea Party's Assault on Dissenting Thought Has Trapped the GOP

The Right has always policed dissenting thought in its ranks. But in the past few years the Tea Party has upped the ante.

GOP to Hungry Americans: You Can Starve Hunger and starvation is no excuse to welch off the Federal Government.

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are targeting domestic nutrition programs and international food assistance as they try to control spending in next year's budget.

NOTICE HOW POLITE THE OFFICERS ARE..AND HOW THE COP PRETTY MUCH TELLS THE GUY HE AGREES WITH THE PROTESTERS.. YOU THINK MAYBE THE RIGHT WING MADE A MISTAKE GOING AFTER THE POLICE OFFICERS UNIONS??TEACHERS UNIONS? FIREFIGHTERS? mmm maybe..

Many progressives are affluent and well-educated. Does their elite status stand in the way of a movement to fight attacks on the working class?

DO YOU FEEL OUR PAIN? DO YOU??!

the irony of the modern world is even ipodz have video cameras

"Police brutality cases on rise since 9/11,"

Guess What? Despite What Republicans Say, the U.S. Isn't Actually Broke

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if you are going to tell a lie make it a big one

French "Socialist' sexually assaults member of the working class

there is no political solution to our troubleD evolution??

ATHEISTS THROWN UNDER THE BUS BY PROGRESSIVES

Rather than standing firm in their defense of liberal atheists who themselves stand firm in defensive of basic progressive values, some liberals are ready to toss them overboard. Atheists are told to sit down and shut up rather than speak out on science, evolution, or religious politics.

Glenn Beck's Absurd Jerusalem Rally: Why Religious Conservatives Are Obsessed With Israel

Beck's newfound adoration for Israel may seem comical, but it represents a convergence of right-wing ideologies that is in fact quite dangerous.
May 18, 2011 |

Conservative huckster Glenn Beck is packing up his white board and floppy clown shoes and heading to Jerusalem, where he hopes to inspire the world to join him in scuttling any hope of a two-state solution to the 60-year-old Israel-Palestine conflict.

Macho Men Die Early: The Destructive Rules of Traditional Masculinity

One of the defenses of the macho ethic is that it encourages men to be tough to protect their families. Even if that were true, you can’t protect if you’re not there.

The Right's 'Big Lie' Strategy: When Losing, Simply Rewrite History

Contemporary conservatives aim to disseminate an alternate version of reality through the media echo chamber and the schools.

Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite

Author Bruce Levine describes how government-corporate alliances have created a passive populace, and how Americans can recover dignity, unity, and the energy to do battle.

The Rupert Murdoch-owned, right-wing Wall Street Journal is lying, plain and simple.

America's Largest Newspaper Launches a Nasty Attack on Grandma and Grandpa

Good Without God: Why "Non-Religious" Is the Fastest-Growing Preference in America

May 10, 2011 | Currently more than one billion people around the world define themselves as agnostic, atheist or nonreligious — including 15 percent of Americans. Perhaps more striking, “nonreligious” is not only the fastest growing religious preference in the U.S., but also the only one to increase its percentage in every state over the past generation.

In 1936 American commentator H. L. Mencken wrote: The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy

In 1936 American commentator H. L. Mencken wrote:
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy.There is only one takeaway from Righteous Indignation: Breitbart’s life is a revenge fantasy against Hollywood and the “attractive people making millions” he believes slighted him. Had they been nicer to him—and not made him “their manservant” as he describes his treatment at HuffPo—he wouldn’t have become such a foul, raging jerk. Let this be a lesson to us all in our dealings with even the most incompetent, disagreeable colleagues. Be nice to them lest they grow up to be media hacks with powerful microphones and Plymouth Rock on their shoulder, just itching to write their Hollywood Dearest memoirs.

that is what my children taught me..

everything had changed..

because it never really changes..

he got it done

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Did Osama Bin Laden Win the "War on Terror"? Perhaps we should stop cheering for our "success."

We don't know what happened that night. But we should at least acknowledge that there were any number of reasons why dumping bin Laden's corpse in the ocean would have been seen as far less problematic than taking him alive. What, exactly, would they have done with him? The International Criminal Court can only consider cases committed after 2001, and trying him in a domestic court with its evidentiary procedures was never an option. He could have been tried by military commission, but that process hasn't been widely accepted as legitimate.

What Will It Take to End Our Destructive, Pointless Wars?

In "To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion," prize-winning historian Adam Hochschild offers a unique look at the war that set our planet on a path to madness.
May 3, 2011

While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning..

While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?

Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, ...

Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror....The 12 Worst (and Most Powerful) Christian Right Groups
The Religious Right in America is lavishly funded and politically well connected. These groups raise more than three-quarters of a billion dollars annually, mostly tax-exempt.

heck i'll post em all..maybe

and dont think it cant happen here

obama speaks

i dont know about you but for me its a relief one less reason to continue this imperial adventure