GOP Farm Bill Obstruction Could Defund 90 Percent Of Department Of Agriculture
The 2012 Farm Bill is still languishing in the House, with GOP leadership in the chamber intentionally preventing action on the legislation for political reasons. According to the New York Times ,...
View ArticleRomney Campaign Approvingly Cites Statement Saying That Its Tax Plan Doesn’t...
The Romney campaign has been pushing back against a recent report by Innovation Ohio and the Center for American Progress showing that “millionaires in [Ohio] would receive an additional $87,000 in...
View ArticleMike Burns: On Eve Of Lehman Collapse Anniversary, Limbaugh Says: "There’s No...
On the eve of the fourth anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse, Rush Limbaugh denied that the economy has improved under President Obama. In fact, four years ago tomorrow, the failed investment...
View ArticleSTUDY: Media Campaign Coverage Almost Never Addresses Poverty
The Census Bureau recently found that the poverty rate stalled at 15 percent in 2011, unchanged from the year before, when analysts had expected an increase. That still means , however, that one in...
View ArticleStudy: Bailed Out Banks Kept Making Risky Loans After Receiving Taxpayer Dollars
According to a new report from the Bank of International Settlements — which provides research to the world’s central bankers — bailed out banks in both the U.S.
View ArticleWe Saved The Ozone Layer. We Can Save The Climate.
by David Doniger, via NRDC’s Switchboard Climate change is not the first planetary pollution crisis we have faced. That distinction belongs to the depletion of the earth’s protective ozone layer.
View ArticleFox Wins Straw-Man Argument Against Taxing Millionaires At 100 Percent
Fox News is distorting President Obama's economic agenda by pushing the straw-man argument that taxing the entirety of millionaires' incomes would fund the government for less than three months. In...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs CEO: Some Wall Street Reforms May Be ‘Inadequate’
Wall Street has spent millions lobbying to weaken many features of Dodd-Frank financial reform law that are not yet in place. Goldman Sachs, for instance, has spent $15 million lobbying since 2009....
View ArticleHow ‘Up All Night’ Went Wrong
Yesterday, word came out that NBC, which already renewed Up All Night in the face of low ratings and overhauled the family sitcom’s core premise, will put the the single-camera comedy on hiatus again...
View ArticleBen Dimiero: Rove’s Final Pre-Election WSJ Column Again Exposes His...
Karl Rove's last pre-election column for the Wall Street Journal ran in this morning's paper and features his prediction that Mitt Romney will win "at least 279 Electoral College votes." Rove's...
View ArticleMatt Gertz: Ted Nugent’s Budget Deal: Suspend Vote For Welfare Recipients
Ted Nugent called for the suspension of the right to vote for "any American who is on welfare" as part of his proposal to reduce federal budget deficits outlined in his latest Washington Times...
View ArticleStray Questions About Two Befuddling 2012 Movies
Post contains mild spoilers for Django Unchained , especially if you somehow missed the news that Django kills everybody. Two of the most challenging movies I saw last year came in December: Django...
View Article43 GOP Senators Threaten Obstruction Unless Consumer Protection Bureau Is...
When the Dodd-Frank financial reform law first passed, Senate Republicans refused to confirm a director for the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They promised to block any nominee —...
View ArticleBrian Powell: Ohio Media Ignore Financial Link Between Failing Charter School...
Ohio media reporting on Gov. John Kasich's (R) new education funding plan neglected to inform readers that the plan funnels millions of dollars in increased spending to private schools and charter...
View ArticleFox Forwards Claim That Government Seeks “Retribution” In S&P Lawsuit
Multiple Fox News personalities have suggested the Justice Department's lawsuit against Standard & Poor's is 'political retribution,' either papering over or outright ignoring the facts behind the...
View ArticleBen Dimiero: Karl Rove And Marco Rubio’s Mutually Beneficial Alliance
Karl Rove has recently used his various media platforms to sing the praises of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and tout his role in the brewing debate over immigration reform.
View ArticleSalvatore Colleluori: U-T San Diego Fails To Disclose Owner’s Ties To...
The U-T San Diego editorial board hyped a court decision that would benefit a project to expand the San Diego Convention Center but never noted that the paper's owner, Douglas Manchester, has a...
View ArticleCan The Empire State Go Green? New Study Says New York State Can Be 100%...
A new study out of Stanford University, scheduled to be published in the journal Energy Policy , argues that New York State can eliminate fossil fuels from its energy mix entirely by 2050. Written by...
View ArticleSalvatore Colleluori: Two Major Florida Newspapers Ignore ALEC Connection In...
The Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times failed to connect the American Legislative Exchange Council model legislation to the current efforts to change the pension plans of Floridians. Ashley Lopez of the...
View ArticleJustin Berrier: Right-Wing Media Cherry-Pick Study Findings To Attack...
Right-wing media have seized on a study of Medicaid recipients to attack the program by focusing on certain parts of the findings while health care experts point out that the program successfully...
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