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Tonight’s Sate of the Union address

By Mark | January 24, 2012

I’m listing to the President’s State of the Union address right now, and wondering how in the hell any of the Republicans currently fighting for their party’s nomination think they’ve got a realistic shot against him come November. I know it’s just a speech, and a lot of the ideas will never come to fruition, […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged class warfare, Financial Crimes Unit, food stamps, foreclosure, get the money out of Washington, GITMO, Guantánamo Bay, health care reform, higher education, income inequality, lobbying, Obama, Osama bin Laden, poverty, State of the Union, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the politics on envy, threats to the middle class, unions, Wall Street, welfare | 23 Comments

Rebuild the Dream rolls out their ten-point plan for setting America back on the right track

By Mark | August 8, 2011

I don’t usually like it when adults hire adorable little kids to deliver their political messages, but, judging from my response to this short video just put out by Van Jones and the folks at Rebuild the Dream, I guess I’m alright with it when said kids are articulately and enthusiastically parroting ideas that I […]

Posted in Politics | Also tagged American dream, Bush tax cuts, clean energy, Contract for the American Dream, energy independence, England, green jobs, health care reform, London, minimum wage, populism, public education, Rebuild the Dream, riots, single-payer system, social security, Van Jones | 20 Comments

Enjoying a Bernie break

By Mark | May 19, 2011

It dawned on me today that it’s been too damned long since we’ve had any Bernie Sanders video on the site. Here, to remedy that, is a little something that I just found on the web. I don’t have time to transcribe the whole thing, but here are a few quotes. …Big money owns and […]

Posted in Economics, Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bernie Sanders, campaign finance reform, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporate personhood, deregulation, Glass-Steagall Act, health care reform, Jim McDermott, Koch brothers, single-payer system, Super PAC, Vermont | 12 Comments

Rand Paul equates universal healthcare to slavery

By Mark | May 13, 2011

I’m still trying to wrap my mind around this one. Here’s a clip from the transcript, thanks to our friends at ThinkProgress: With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right […]

Posted in Health, Politics | Also tagged analogies, health care reform, Rand Paul, slavery, things that make people want to punch douche bags in the face | 24 Comments

Marking the first year of the Affordable Care Act

By Mark | March 26, 2011

Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act by President Obama. There was quite a bit in the press about it. I found two things of particular interest. The first was a speech in DC delivered by New York Congressman Anthony Weiner. And, the second, was a writeup by […]