Obama Deficit Speech: Lots of Flowery Talk About a Major Distraction | News amp; Politics | AlterNet
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Apr 13, 2011 - Share
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It was a classic Obama speech – reasonable, and seductive to a degree that one might forget that we're debating how fast we're going to put the brakes on this recovery.
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The American Dream As We Know It Is Obsolete | Economy | AlterNet
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Apr 10, 2011 - Share
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Why progressives need to think beyond the mantra of creating a
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Obama Hails Short-Term Deal to Avert Government Shutdown | AlterNet
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Apr 10, 2011 - Share
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Lawmakers on Capitol Hill reached a deal late Friday night to avert a government shutdown that would have taken place at midnight had the Congress not agreed to a measure to keep the government working. President Barack Obama tonight hailed an 11th-hour agreement reached between House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., for a continuing resolution that would keep the government open for the next five days
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Wall St. Stands at the Pinnacle of 5 000 Years of Human Exploitation | Economy | AlterNet
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Apr 10, 2011 - Share
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As powerful as Wall Street appears to be, its abuse of power has so eroded the economic, social, and environmental foundations of its own existence that its fate is sealed.
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The GOP Is in Trouble in Wisconsin | AlterNet
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Apr 10, 2011 - Share
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One has to imagine that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his Republican acolytes are breathing a sigh of relief after this week. On Wednesday, it looked to all the world as if his advocate-on-the-bench, state Supreme Court justice David Prosser, had been narrowly defeated in an enormous upset by JoAnne Kloppenburg
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Obama to Deliver Major Speech on Debt Reduction -- Is He Caving to the GOP | AlterNet
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Apr 10, 2011 - Share
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President Obama will deliver a major speech this week about plans to reduce federal budget deficits and long-term debt, senior adviser David Plouffe
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You Thought the Koch Brothers Were Bad Turns Out They re Even Worse Than You Thought | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
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Apr 6, 2011 - Share
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Charles and David Koch's reach into virtually every aspect of political, economic and physical life on the planet is probably greater than you thought possible.
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The Republicans Incredible Bait-and-Switch -- Truly Trying to Screw You When You Get Older | Economy | AlterNet
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Apr 6, 2011 - Share
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Within ten years, most Americans would be spending all of their Social Security income to pay for their health care or going without coverage.
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The Slippery Slope of Humane Intervention : Why Do Liberals Keep Talking Themselves into War | World | AlterNet
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Apr 6, 2011 - Share
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Once again, many liberals have bought into American power as a force for good. But it's just another ugly, expensive war we now own
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Will Republican Voters Believe Anything The Right s Hyperbolic Dysfunctional World | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
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Mar 31, 2011 - Share
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To have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it. They act as if all their Kool-Aid has been spiked.
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Rift in the Right: Many Conservatives Reject the Tea Party s Paranoid Views | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
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Mar 30, 2011 - Share
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A new study shows a big rift in the right -- between paranoid Tea Partiers and establishment conservatives. Before you conclude that's good news, read on.
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4 Biggest GOP Lies About Jobs (And Why Obama Must Repudiate Them) | Economy | AlterNet
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Mar 28, 2011 - Share
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Republicans figure if their big lies are repeated often enough, people will start to believe them.
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GE World s Largest Corporation Paid Zero Dollars in U.S. Taxes Last Year | AlterNet
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Mar 26, 2011 - Share
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How can that be, you ask? Actually, it's pretty simple.
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3/4ths of Senate GOP Doesn t Believe in Science -- When Did Republicans Go Completely Off the Deep End | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
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Mar 23, 2011 - Share
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The Tea Party and its allies had made it unacceptable to the GOP base to be anywhere except pandering to the anti-science crowd.
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Scary: People Who Watch and Trust Fox News Will Surprise You | Media | AlterNet
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Mar 17, 2011 - Share
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One in four Americans believes "most or all" of what's said on Fox News, despite Fox's fabrication of everything from death panels to Climategate
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