Here is how you know if you are Right Wing or not:
You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn’t get mad when the [...]
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In 1971, Lewis F. Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powell’s nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The [...]
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Establish a public component to compete with private insurance, and put it into operation within a year of passage of the bill. This can be done by extending both Medicare and Medicaid eligibility to everyone under reconciliation, and balancing off the cost by having people under 65 buy into it, and by raising taxes on [...]
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Now is the season for action. The majority of Americans want health insurance reform with the choice of a public option that keeps insurance companies honest, lowers costs, and increases service.
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“…the top 1 per cent of the population has pulled away from the rest of the top 10 per cent and the top 0.1 per cent has pulled away from the rest of the top 1 per cent.
Public policy has been successful in cushioning the impact of these trends but in some cases, such as [...]
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Now, all of us have been in a room when a scream comes out of nowhere. It’s impossible not to look. Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned. Vice President Joe Biden Turned. Obama turned. Why aren’t Wilson’s Republican colleagues startled? Not one has turned to see what the outburst, coming from right next to them, is all [...]
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MaxTax is a plan that will use your and my tax dollars to reward companies like Wal-Mart for keeping its workers in poverty. Here’s why.
In most cases, the MaxTax fines employers up to $400 per employee if it doesn’t provide its employees with health care. The fine is absurdly small (less than half of what [...]
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Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) — The dollar’s role in international trade should be reduced by establishing a new currency to protect emerging markets from the “confidence game” of financial speculation, the United Nations said.
via UN Says New Currency Is Needed to Fix Broken ‘Confidence Game’ – Bloomberg.com.
Boom! But it was only an early mile marker in Sweeney’s career; in 2000, she showed that 87 percent of all Americans could be uniquely identified using only three bits of information: ZIP code, birthdate, and sex.
via “Anonymized” data really isn’t—and here’s why not – Ars Technica.
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