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Which means decoupling from Obama’s austerity-maddened, surrender-monkey march to the austerity seas.   And if Pelosi and Reid can’t put their party’s and the American people’s interests ahead of Obama’s obsessions, they should be ignored also. At Policy Shop Blog/Demos Robert … Continue reading →

It’s interesting: back in the Dark Ages when opera singers couldn’t act or move, they couldn’t act so badly and they were so fat and unattractive that Hollywood recruited them to star in movies! A case in point: Rise Stevens, … Continue reading →

Here I am in Yorkshire, England, wet and tired and happy.  

Forgot something !! But who indeed were/are the primary victims of Rahm Emanuel’s transference of public money to private coffers on behalf of the charter school industry?  The schoolchilden of Chicago of course.  But of course, as Perlstein points out, … Continue reading →

His loathsome behavior toward–and the consequent haircut administrated him by—Chicago’s public school teachers sure didn’t, shall we say, teach Rahm Emanuel a lesson. Emanuel is not anything remotely resembling a legitimate public servant—he is a corporate lobbyist, pure and simple, … Continue reading →

That’s really what the national “mainstream” news media seem by and large determined to create.  Example of the day: the blackout on reporting concerning passage by voice vote of Bernie Sanders’ ammendment defending Social Security. Dean Baker reports on Truthout.com.

For The Wall Street Journal, I review Facts & Fancies, Paul Taylor’s new book, a compilation of short pieces.

According to Sahil Kapur’s reportage on Talkingpointsmemo.com, in his meeting with the House yesterday the President “phrased” his rationale behind his advocacy of cuts to Social Security in a highly dishonest way.  He claimed that cuts to benfeits would extend the program … Continue reading →

“Hundreds of Thousands Dead, Trillions Spent”  Jon Queally at Commondreams.org describes the costs of our invasion of Iraq.

Saying there is no alternative between decimating Social Security the way the Republicans want to do, and chipping away at it the way that Obama prefers.  Is she kidding?  On the one hand, her duplicity is shocking, even for a pol, on … Continue reading →