GOP include social engineering and denial of rights in budget demands
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From Minnesota Independent, the Republicans took seemingly every noxious bill in the past session, and included them in their demands in the budget negotiations.
How international trade justifies progressive taxation
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The vast majority of economists (over 90%) favor opening our borders to free international trade. Continue Reading
Netroots Nation: the discontent over the disconnect
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I had a blast at Netroots Nation 2011. I met many bloggers, activists, staffers and several celebrities. I made a ton of connections. However, throughout the conference, there was a current of discontent which was often the topic of discussion at parties, before and after panels and in the hallways of the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Inflation: everybody panic, we’re all gonna die!!!
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I just finished watching this, uhm, interesting video and then followed it up with this gem. Both tell of impending (you said within the next year, back in 2009, Glenn Beck) economic doom due to out-of-control, destructive inflation. Continue Reading
House voting to cut WIC
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Republicans in the US House are continuing to push their assault on poor women and children.
Target Corp. anti-union propaganda video leaked
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Gawker, of all sites, has been following efforts to unionize workers at Target stores. First, they collected stories from Target employees. More here. A brief excerpt:
What you know about Canadian health care is wrong
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OK, maybe not everything, but Aaron Carroll has put together the data and graphs to indicate that some things commonly believed are wrong. For example, if you told me so many Canadians streaming over the border to get US health care shows how bad they have it in Canada, my answer would have been Canadians mostly l Continue Reading
CTUL hunger strike day 11
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Every morning for the last eleven days, I have woken up stunned by the courage of the retail cleaning workers I have the privilege to work with as an organizer at CTUL.
Summary of legislative session: denial of rights, denial of science
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The patterns that jumped out from the past legislative session were denial in two senses of the word: denial as in “it’s not real”, and denial as in “you can’t have that”. Continue Reading
Today is just the start.
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Today is just the start. That was the constant refrain from our bus captain during day of action at the capital on Saturday. Today is just the start.