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Worst President Ever, Revisited

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By Eli - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - No, I’m not ready to crown Barack Obama the Worst President Ever just yet, but consider this.

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A Liberal Is a Villager Who’s Been Screwed By a Mortgage Servicer

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By David Dayen - Mar. 06 (Opinion) - Sometimes it takes only a little shared experience to recognize the major problems in our society. For Milbank to understand the mortgage crisis, he needed to experience it first-hand. And he recognizes that he’s one of the relatively luckier ones; borrowers without his income stream or resources are being forced into foreclosure when they confront these situations.

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SB 5 Passes Ohio Senate After Republicans Reconfigure Committees

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By David Dayen - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - Senate Bill 5, which will limit most collective bargaining rights for public employees in Ohio, bars strikes under penalty of law, and bans binding arbitration, just passed the Ohio State Senate by one vote. ..... In order to make it work, Ohio Republicans had to shuffle two committees to ensure they had the votes to pass the bill out.

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Wisconsin’s Walker Signs Bill Requiring 2/3 Majority for Tax Increases

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By David Dayen - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - Being from California, I’m pretty clear what the implications of a Prop 13-style supermajority requirement for taxes will do. It will basically destroy government as they know it in Wisconsin, ratcheting down the ability for the state to collect the revenue needed to provide a basic level of services. If you liked the efficient, responsive government we’ve seen over the last three decades in California, you’re going to love it in Wisconsin.

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Clarence Thomas Is Trying to Get Away With a Felony

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By RogerShuler - Feb. 14 (News Analysis) - 'Many news outlets that have reported on US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' failure to disclose his wife's income are portraying the allegations as, at most, a misdemeanor. But new reports suggest that Thomas' actions would amount to a felony if proven in a court of law.' Roger Shuler, Firedoglake

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Darrel Issa A Rep. Of Very Little Brain

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By Bill Egnor - Jan. 03 (Opinion) - Still Rep. Issa might know more about crime and corruption than you might think. After all he has been indicted twice once for stealing a car and once for faking the theft of a care that was sold to a dealer. To be fair both of these charges were later dropped so it is not like he is a convicted car thief, just an accused one.

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Voter Caging Scheme Uncovered in Wisconsin

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By David Dayen - Sep. 21 (News Report) - Democrats have plenty of problems heading into the midterm elections – a spotty economy, depressed enthusiasm among key parts of their coalition and an energized right-wing movement. But they’ll also have to contend with the same strategies the right has used over and over again to try and win elections in this country. One of the most prevalent concerns voter suppression

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Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By Firedoglake - Jul. 26 (Comment) - Chart of the day - Bush policies deficits

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Supreme Court Backs Corporatism

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By Masaccio - Jan. 21 (Opinion) - Now that the Supreme Court has decided that corporations have First Amendment rights, we need to examine our rhetoric–specifically the word “corporatism.” Many liberals been using that word to describe a government that sees its primary function as responding to the needs and demands of corporations and the financial elites that control corporations. The right also uses the word to describe President Obama and his administration, but with a different twist.

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Right & Left Agree: Mandates are the Road to Neofeudalism

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By Jane Hamsher - Dec. 30 (Opinion) - There is tremendous fear rising on both the right and the left that the announced intention of Congress — to force every American to pay tribute to private corporations, with no government alternative — sets a dangerous and frightening precedent with implications far outside the scope of health care.

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The Incredibly Stupid Politics Of Delaying Benefits

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By Jon Walker - Dec. 29 (Opinion) - If there was any one single completely terrible political decision made by Democrats during this health care debate, it was to “save money” by delaying the start of reform. This is an act of political foolishness so profound, I’m, to this day, at a loss for words. Making the bill appear $100-300 billion cheaper simply is not worth the medium term political damage that delaying reform will do to the Democrats.

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Sick of Corporate Control Over Your Food?

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By Jill Richardson - Dec. 28 (Opinion) - When a market is competitive, everyone wins. Businesses that can innovate or grow more efficient rise to the top while consumers get the best products for the best price. However, when one (or a few) corporations gain too much power over the market, those benefits go away. Think about it – if there was only one company out there selling something essential for life (for example, seeds for all of our major food crops) – they could charge whatever they wanted and we’d have to pay it. Especially if they figured out a clever way to keep new companies from emerging and gaining any share of the market.

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Health Care Budgeting 101: Congress’ Fiscal Scolds Earn an “F-”

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - the market carve-out for Medicaid saves money, which means that if Blue Dogs really wanted to save money, they would enlarge the Medicaid carve out — say, up to 250 or 350 percent of FPL. In other words, if the fiscal-deficit scolds were genuinely serious about reducing the cost of the reform bill, they would expand eligibility to public health care to a lot more people and forget about shielding private insurers from competition.

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"Prosecutors Attack Innocence Project Journalism Students" and related posts

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:56:37 -0700

Firedoglake - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - EmptywheelCook County Illinois is the gift that keeps on giving. From the aggressive G-Men of the Roaring Twenties to the Red Squads to the original Richard Daley Machine to the Burge Torture Scandals, Chicago and Cook County have a certain reputation ...Prosecutors Go After Student-Journalists' Grades After They Question A Conviction?-?The Business InsiderProsecutors Go After Innocence Project Students?-?Delaware LiberalJudge H. Lee Sarokin: GESTAPO KNOCKS AT DOOR OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY JOURNALISM SCHOOL?-?The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.comSee all 9 blogs.

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The WaPo Declares Itself Unable to Find the Truth

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By Marcy Wheeler - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - The WaPo wants you to know that it--one of the most storied newspapers in American history--is absolutely incapable of sorting through the facts about whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's torture turned him into a helpful college professor of terror.

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That Beltway Thing You Do

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By Christy Hardin Smith - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - The DOJ appointment of a special prosecutor has the Beltway press all aflutter. Why? Because it's that thing they do.

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Geithner on White House Plans to “Fix” Social Security

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By Jane Hamsher - May. 13 (Opinion) - "Finally, after we have passed health care reform that puts our nation on a path to lower growth in health care costs and expanded affordable coverage, this President will work to build a bipartisan consensus to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security. The President explicitly rejects the notion that Social Security is an untouchable politically and instead believes there is opportunity for a new consensus on Social Security reform. Translated: Anyone who bought that ten-dimensional chess crap about the administration having no plans to cut Social Security benefits: psyche!

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DC Journalists Love GOP Obstructionists, But Americans Don’t

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By Jane Hamsher - Feb. 15 (Opinion) - The people who live in DC, who pretend to speak for the rest of the country, have no direct experience with what is happening there -- and their attempts to handicap DC politics have more to do with the inside baseball games that seek to protect their own interests above all else. The fact that three and a half million Americans will have jobs as a result of the passage of this bill, or that people who are unemployed or living on food stamps will continue to be able to eat, doesn't seem to graze their analyses. The American public looked at DC, they saw the Democrats trying to do something, and they liked what they saw. People who are deeply worried about staying employed and taking care of their families do not seem to have the universal high regard for House Republicans who stood together to oppose helping them out that the DC establishment do.

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Gaza Update: Hiding from Justice

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By Siun - Jan. 23 (News Analysis) - Israel is finally opening the crossings for journalists to enter Gaza--but censoring reports which might provide evidence for prosecution on war crimes.

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Obama's Savvy Choice Of Panetta Shakes Up Stagnant Senate

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jane Hamsher - Jan. 06 (Opinion) - There is insufficient space here on this blog to recount all the things that the Intelligence Committee has screwed up in recent years, but suffice to say that Feinstein enabled most of it. She has been a key Bush ally who cast critical votes in support of his most extremist assertions of power. Her default position is consistently to protect establishment power, and she never batted an eyelash about casting votes that were worth billions in defense contracts to firms owned by her husband. There are few people in public office more territorial and consumed by a sense of entitlement than Diane Feinstein.

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Oxdown Gazette » Best Viral Video Of 2008

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By MadCabbie - Jan. 02 (Opinion) - No, it's not the one with Sarah Palin babbling cheerfully in front of a guy killing turkeys. No, it's not Obama's speech in Chicago on the night he won the election. No, it's not the guy flinging shoes at Bush.

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Lil Debbie Says Washington Post Should Criticize Obama More to Please Conservatives

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - The Washington Post's Deborah Howell has a long history of sending readers to the dictionary to determine whether the term "ombudsman" entails systematically perverting journalistic standards. But her column today (h/t Julia) proves again the problem is not the term but the fact Ms. Howells has no idea what it means.

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Bill Forming in the House: One Last Chance to Replace the Paulson Bill With a Good Bill

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By Ian Welsh - Oct. 01 (Opinion) - ...the Paulson bill won't solve the problem, but will only push it back 6 months or so, at great cost to ordinary taxpayers. If the Paulson bill isn't defeated we're going to be back here again, a lot poorer, trying to do this right.

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A Line Was Crossed At Postville

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By David Neiwert - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - an essay by Erik Camayd-Freixas, a Spanish-language court interpreter...called in to help process detainees in the raid...[supports the the observation that] the Department of Homeland Security, in collusion with the Justice Department, is..."basically gaming the Federal judiciary using existing law, rules and regulations to force the judiciary to act as a coerced agent of the executive to imprison undocumented workers, after which they are deported with a prison record."

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That's Some Catch, That Catch-22.' 'It's The Best There Is'

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By David Neiwert - Jul. 06 (Opinion) - That pretty much describes the nativist approach to immigration in general. And in the process of fixing something by making it worse, they're conveniently disenfranchising thousands, perhaps millions, of American citizens, stripping them of their rights as citizens.

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