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Fact Checking, Analyzing Republican Candidates A Full-time Job

Fact Checking, Analyzing Republican Candidates A Full-time Job

Bruce Bartlett is a Republican economist who worked for members of Congress and Presidents Reagan and Bush 41. Don’t get him started on the economic proposals of the current crop…

CBO Defines The Income Disparity

CBO Defines The Income Disparity

The Congressional Budget Office has released an analysis of income increase for the years 1979 to 2007. The numbers reinforce everything the 99%ers have been saying as they have occupied…

What We Could Lose If The Republicans Win

What We Could Lose If The Republicans Win

When our country was being created, the men who did so understood that to balance the power of the executive and legislative branches wasn’t enough. We needed an independent judiciary.…

Rick Perry To Trickle Out His Economy Policy

Rick Perry To Trickle Out His Economy Policy

During the debate on Tuesday night, Perry said “I want to make the tax code so simple that even Timothy Geithner can file his taxes on time.” Okay, so how…

Syrian Dissidents Establish National Transitional Council

Syrian Dissidents Establish National Transitional Council

I’m not being insulting or demeaning here – there actually is a point to this paragraph. Several years ago, a group of animal behavior scientists conducted an experiment with squirrels.…

Fact Checking The Republican Debate

Fact Checking The Republican Debate

It is always so much fun to do this. They have such a tenuous grip on facts. So let’s start with the Queen of Misinformation. Bachmann said: “President Obama has…

What Is Legitimate Training For Congressional Staffers

What Is Legitimate Training For Congressional Staffers

Congresspersons and Senators have an expense budget. We think of that as covering such dull ordinary things as basic office supplies and coffee for the K-machine. But it turns out,…

Definitely Not Netanyahu’s Year

Definitely Not Netanyahu’s Year

Some people have a bad day. Others have a bad year. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has passed the 15-month mark for bad. It started with the Israeli commando attack…