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Mind-Blowing Charts From the Senate's Income Inequality Hearing

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Josh Harkinson - Feb. 10 (News Report) - In another sign that Democrats have embraced income inequality as a cause célèbre, the Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on the subject today. The committee's ranking Republican, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, managed to look concerned during two hours of testimony about the kneecapping of the Middle Class—not that it should have been all that difficult. Here are some of the hearing's most striking charts ...

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League of Conservation Voters: George Allen Named to Dirty Dozen

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

action.lcv.org - Feb. 10 (Press Release) - Former Virginia Senator George Allen earned an abysmal 1% LCV lifetime score during his time in the Senate. Additionally, Allen has received nearly $500,000 from oil and gas interests. This is Allen's 3rd time on the Dirty Dozen, having been named to the list in 2000 and 2006.

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Why Aren’t More Arab Americans Working in Mainstream Journalism?

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Columbia Journalism Review - Jan. 31 - There are anywhere between 3.5 and 5.1 million Americans of Arab descent, according to figures from the Arab American Institute, yet relatively few work in journalism full time. While meaningful estimates aren’t known, as journalism scholars that conduct demographic research in American newsrooms do not typically tally newsmakers of Arab descent, the National Arab American Journalists Association counts around 250...

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Stop the Madness

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Rebuttal - Jan. 19 (News Analysis) - This isn't the first time that hawks have raised the alarm about Iran's nuclear program, claiming that the sky is falling. Breathless, hypothetical timelines to an Iranian bomb have continued almost unabated since the time of the shah.

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Obama-GOP battle turns ruthless

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By David Frum - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - Watch the Republican primaries, and you can feel: the American political system is working. The GOP is discarding the unqualified and irresponsible candidates and rapidly converging on the person in the race who could actually do the job of president. But the week's second biggest political story shows a very different reality: a political system careening toward crisis. This is the story of the battle over President Barack Obama's nomination of Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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Sen. Ron Wyden leaps into middle of Internet piracy fight

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Oregonian - Dec. 22 (News) - WASHINGTON -- There's a lot of stealing going on across the Internet's great wide expanse, with movies, music and software all protected by copyrights particularly ripe for the illegal taking. But how to deal with a problem that by one estimate costs pr

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The GOP's Payroll Tax Fiasco

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By WSJ Editorial Board - Dec. 21 (Opinion) - GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th Congress was to make sure that President Obama would not be re-elected. Given how he and House Speaker John Boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest. The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play. Republicans have also achieved the small miracle of letting Mr. Obama position himself as an election-year tax cutter, although he's spent most of his Presidency promoting tax increases and he would hit the economy with one of the largest tax increases ever in 2013. This should be impossible.

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Rachel Maddow Hammers Mitt Romney For Being Like Rick Lazio

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Rachael Maddow - Dec. 18 (News Analysis) - Rachel Maddow hammered Mitt Romney on her show Friday night for being like former New York Republican congressman Rick Lazio. Maddow likened Romney to Lazio...

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Kathleen Sebelius Pressed On Plan B Decision By 14 Democratic Senators

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Dec. 14 (News Report) - Fourteen Democratic senators, led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), sent the Obama administration a letter on Tuesday asking for the scientific basis behind its decision to limit access to emergency contraception. Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected the Food and Drug Administration's conclusion that the Plan B One-Step pill was safe enough to be placed on pharmacy shelves without an age limit. The decision raised eyebrows because HHS has never before overruled the FDA on a drug recommendation. Many reproductive rights groups openly questioned whether the Obama administration was putting electoral politics above sound science ahead of next year's election.

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Fact-checking the Chamber of Commerce

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Bill Adair - Dec. 07 (Fact Check) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has begun its "voter education" drive, running ads that attack Democrats and boost Republicans. The blitz is beginning in Iowa, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington, including this ad against U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. PolitiFact Ohio checked the ad's claim that Brown "voted to block American energy production and increase energy taxes" and rated it Mostly False.

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US Senate passes its version of NDAA bill, which would allow military to detain anyone on US soil - OpenGlobe

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

OpenGlobe - By Tempodivalse, OpenGlobe contributors - Dec. 02 (Special Report) - The US Senate on Thursday passed its version of a bill that, among other provisions, would enable the US military to indefinitely detain anyone who is deemed to be engaging in terrorist activities.

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U.S. Senate Passes Iran Oil Sanctions as EU Blacklist Grows

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:51:00 -0800

Business Week - Dec. 02 - (Updates with oil settlement prices in 11th paragraph.) Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate took aim at the Iranian central bank in an effort to choke off oil exports, while the European Union stopped short of targeting crude as it tightened sanctions

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Senate Wants The Military To Lock You Up Without Trial

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:45:00 -0800

Wired - Dec. 01 - Here’s the best thing that can be said about the new detention powers the Senate has tucked into next year’s defense bill: they don’t force the military to detain American citizens indefinitely without a trial. They just let the military do that. And eve

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Op-Ed Columnist: Things to Tax

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman, New York Times - Nov. 28 (Opinion) - How about making increased revenue part of the remedy? And not just a return to Clinton-era tax rates.

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When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By HASH(0x131256b0) - Nov. 21 (Opinion) - "What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" It’s a very strange experience to have your friends think you’ve gone crazy. Some will tell you

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Is Lying On The Internet Illegal?

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Nov. 16 (Special Report) - Under a Department of Justice interpretation of existing law, it's possible for the government to bring charges against Internet users who for example lie about their weight on Match.com.

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Mitt Romney: Repealing the health care law "would save $95 billion in 2016."

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan - Nov. 09 (Fact Check) - Mitt Romney has recently been emphasizing one of the favorite themes of the tea party movement: cutting government spending. He’s been getting pretty specific about some of his ideas, both in an op-ed in USA Today and in speeches on the campaign trail.

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Senate Set to Vote on Neutering Net Neutrality

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:53:00 -0800

Wired - By David Kravets - Nov. 07 (News) - WASHINGTON, D.C — The Senate is likely to vote within days on a measure that would undo net-neutrality rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2010, even though they’ve yet to go into effect. One of the lead sponsor’s of Senate Journal

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Bad Theory, Bad Legislation

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nyt Editorial - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - The House’s campaign to undercut environmental laws has now migrated to the Senate. Rand Paul, a Republican of Kentucky, is expected to offer a resolution this week to block a new federal regulation requiring cuts in soot- and smog-forming gases from power plants ..

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Senate Democrats offer $3 trillion debt deal

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Lori Montgomery - Oct. 26 (News Report) - Senate Democrats are urging the debt-reduction supercommittee to pursue a far-reaching agreement to slice $3 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade through significant cuts to federal health programs, including Medicare, and as much as $1.3 trillion in new taxes.

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Calling Wall Street A ‘Gambling Casino,’ Democratic Rep. DeFazio Proposes Financial Transactions Tax

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - Echoing the demands of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) is proposing to tax the trading of stocks, bonds, and derivatives. DeFazio, along with his Senate co-sponsor Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), has proposed the tax several times in the past. But this time around, the idea is getting a boost of momentum [...]

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Barbara Boxer says 400 richest taxpayers saw incomes grow by 400 percent, tax rates fall by 40 percent

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Sep. 21 (Fact Check) - During a Sept. 20, 2011, interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., sought to highlight how America’s richest taxpayers have benefited economically in recent years. "The top 400 earners in this country are worth more … than half of the American people," Boxer said. "And since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent." We checked the first part -- that the top 400 tax payers saw their incomes grow by 400 percent -- in March 2010, giving it a rating of True. ...

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Editorial: Our man in Damascus

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Editorial - Sep. 17 (Opinion) - Why Ambassador Robert S. Ford deserves confirmation.

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Man, That Debt Ceiling Fight Sucked! Let's Do It Again!

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:52:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Andy Kroll - Aug. 03 (News) - Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in remarks on the Senate floor on Monday, described the Republican tactic of refusing to raise the debt ceiling in order to extract favorable concessions as "a new way of doing business in Washington." He went on: "One of th

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Jon Stewart Rips President Obama For Debt Ceiling 'Dealageddon' (VIDEO)

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Aug. 02 (Comedy News) - video

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