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9 février 2012, par Terrance Heath — An Economy for All, Making It In America, The Big Con, 501c(3)
In my previous post, I wrote that I'm likely to hear an old favorite conservative talking point repeated over and over again while I'm at CPAC: Married cures poverty, economic inequality, and just about any other economic complaint you can name — especially for black folks. The 9th (...)
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9 février 2012, par Terrance Heath — An Economy for All, Making It In America, The Big Con, 501c(3)
"You gotta have a J-O-B, if you wanna be with me."
Gwen Guthrie, "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent" I'm off to cover CPAC tomorrow, where — in light of a federal court ruling California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional — I'm likely to hear a favorite conservative (...)
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9 février 2012, par Dave Johnson — Making It In America, 501c(3), Germand, Harold Meyerson, manufacturing, NewsHour
PBS NewsHour took a look at why Germany's economy is doing so well, while much of the rest of Europe is not doing so well. Here are a few notable excerpts from the transcript: With just a quarter of America's population and a quarter of its GDP, Germany exports more than the United (...)
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8 février 2012, par Richard Eskow — 501c(3), Alan Greenspan, Ayn Rand, John Galt, Curbing Wall Street
Dear Self-Described "Producer": I received your hate mail this morning. Thank you for emerging from your self-creating illusion long enough to write it. I particularly enjoyed your unstated rhetorical debt to the John Galt character in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, who isn't acknowledged (...)
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8 février 2012, par Terrance Heath — The Big Con, 501c(3), Republicans Exposing Themselves
Funny how things change. When Herman Cain and Rick Perry imploded in one week last November, Jon Stewart called Mitt Romney "the luckiest motherfudger on Earth." That was before last night's "shellacking," when Rick Santorum trounced Romney in Minnessota, Missouri, and Colorado — three (...)