Politicians have been raiding Postal Service revenues for years, using them to make the federal deficit appear smaller than it really is. The fiscal gyrations are so twisted that the Postal Service is right now forced to pre-pay health care benefits for employees the agency hasn’t even hired yet…
The college Republicans at Cal-Berkeley have launched a bake sale to protest considerations for admission to minority students; prices for bake goods are based on race and the point they are trying to make is being lost on the point…
Today, President Barack Obama is scheduled to propose a new tax on the wealthiest of American’s, people making over $1 million annually.
The late Molly Ivins, a political columnist and devioted student of Texas politics, has provided us with one last relevent gift — an analysis of Texas Governor and GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry. Despite Adam Probolsky’s recent poll that shows Mitt…
As today’s brutal day on Wall Street spills overseas to a downer Far East market, how do you like that Republican gun-to-your-head debt ceiling deal now? From Sunday’s New York Times, this pearl of wisdom: “It is far too simplistic…
I’m not happy with the compromise struck between the President, the Senate and the House on the drastic spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. Make no mistake, the spending cuts will hurt the poorest and middle class the…
Tired of attacking the poor and destitute in the U.S., the GOP now seeks to take out the poor in other countries all in the name of the holy budget. Undaunted in their advances, they are now willing to severely reduce funding for USAID.
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