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There’s nothing in Montgomery County’s local, non-binding peace resolution about firing Lockheed’s employees or tossing any corporations into the Potomac River.
After that Rose Garden speech, it looks like maybe I didn’t dance for you in vain.
The tea party and its ilk offer us only cold cups of bitter tea while serving up fountains of champagne to the super-rich, Wall Street, and big corporations.
It is the height of recklessness for the current crop of uncompromising Republicans in Congress to play political games with our nation’s economic soundness.
The political leadership in the Garden State preaches austerirty and passes the burden of the economic crisis to those in the most dire need.
It turns out that Mitt Romney is that lazy, too-good-for-your-minimum-wage-job unemployed guy GOP lawmakers have in mind when they try to cut off unemployment benefits.
From start to finish, this budget is a smoke screen obscuring a dangerous far-right agenda.
Under the guise of debt reduction, the chairman of the House Budget Committee’s budget proposal would take from the already poor, give to the already rich.
Local summit on the restaurant industry shows us that the choices that restaurant owners make affect not only their workers, but the rest of us as well.
The freeze on the funding of discretionary domestic programs would choke off vital assistance to a shrinking middle class and growing numbers of poor and low-income families.
Phyllis Bennis and Karen Dolan offer a few words about the tragic shooting of nineteen people in Tucson, AZ that left six dead and United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition.
For the life of me, I couldn’t find anyone accusing Sarah Palin of being Jewish.
A neighbor thought that Rep. Giffords’ community event would be of interest to this young, budding public servant.
It could spell trouble for Social Security.
Finally, a long-overdue step forward for civil rights achieved.
A breakdown of what was gained (not much) and what was lost (a lot) in the Obama Tax Compromise.
Scrooge and the Grinch are Christmas angels compared to conservative lawmakers.
Beck can scapegoat us all he wants, but IPS and other independent organizations will continue to fight the good fight.
Here’s why the Congressional Progressive Caucus matters more than a rat’s hindquarters.
IPS Fellow Karen Dolan explains the significance of the largely intact Congressional Progressive Caucus.