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Beware: A Dangerous Article - e⁽⁶⁾
Caution: This article contains information which banks and big corporations don’t want you to know. Few people realize that the entire world economy is being held up by a huge Ponzi scheme – derivative trading and hedge funds made possible by congressmen, governments, and... ( added 181 days 22 hours ago.)

Are You Being Trickled On Yet? - e⁽⁶⁾
The handwriting is on the wall: We can't compete with India and China. As our standard of living decreases, it will get more and more nasty as the ones in control (and we know who they are - the Koch brothers et al) increase their power over the powerless little people who will eventually be... ( added 194 days 23 hours ago.)

No New Taxes? How About No New Social Cuts? - e⁽⁶⁾
Republicans have three things going for them - hatefulness, lying to the American people, and unbridled ambition for wealth. If you believe what they say, all of our deficit problems are a result of lazy entitlement and welfare slugs. No mention of artificially low corporate and upper tier taxes... ( added 248 days 21 hours ago.)

DeMint and the Speech Lie - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
What is a Speech Lie ? As someone who has addressed groups thousands of times, I am uncomfortably familiar with the Speech Lie. The Speech Lie is an anecdote, or statistic invented to illustrate and support a point within the speech. A Speech Lie may also be an actual lie, but it is not... ( added 2 years 171 days ago.)

When Our Belief’s Go Wrong - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
I’m not sure how I became a progressive (liberal) thinker, because I come out of a family that is almost totally made up of ultra conservative people. I’m not sure if this is new, or not, but it seems like there is a lot of intolerance going on among both republicans and democrats.... ( added 2 years 213 days ago.)

10 Reasons Why There Will Never be a Recovery for Working People - e⁽⁶⁾
For over one-hundred years, Republicans have held to certain principles, and since Republicans are now positioning themselves to gain control of both Houses of Congress and the White House, these principles will be put into action ruthlessly. Nobody can stop this movement. It began with... ( added 155 days 21 hours ago.)

Keep Your Government Hands off my Medicare! - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
If there is one quote that sort of says it all for me regarding the health reform debate it is this one: At a recent town-hall meeting in suburban Simpsonville, a man stood up and told Rep. Robert Inglis (R-S.C.) to "keep your government hands off my Medicare." At a recent town-hall... ( added 2 years 185 days ago.)

GOP Lies About Health Care Reform - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
GOP Lie #1a: The health reform bills force Senior Citizens to submit to an end-of-life consultation every five years. SAY WHAT?: This is NOT ONLY A LIE but it is a perfect example of how the GOP is using fear and lies to kill health care reform. The best lies take something that is true and... ( added 2 years 186 days ago.)

Glenn Beck Must Be Punished - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said, on camera, that he believes President Barack Obama is a racist . Beck made the statement during a guest appearance Tuesday on the " Fox & Friends " morning show. He said Obama has exposed himself as a person with " a deep-seated hatred for white... ( added 2 years 193 days ago.)

Radical Republicans and Democrats: Whaduhyuhdew? - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
I have been told by angry siblings that I am the only liberal in the entire family, that I have been fooled by Clinton and Obama camps. I have recently been told that the symbol of the Democratic party is the jackass which is appropriate because all Democrats are jackasses. I have been told that... ( added 2 years 216 days ago.)

What should the US do about the Iranian Crackdown? - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
What I want to do, and wish we could do, and really wish was a good idea, would be to voice official US support for the protestors of Iran , and, should a revolutionary act take place, I would hope that we would do everything possible to support that act of rebellion. I also wish it rained beer... ( added 2 years 234 days ago.)

Senator Jim Inhofe is an Embarassment to ALL America - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
When I lived in Oklahoma 20 years ago, we had a Senator named Jim Inhofe. When I returned to Oklahoma in 2008 I registered to vote, went to vote, and there on my ballot was a familiar name: Jim Inhofe. I voted for Rice. Almost daily I realize that I voted for the better candidate, and I am so... ( added 2 years 249 days ago.)

Republicans and People of Color - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
I recently heard some things that disturbed me, because I thought they were untrue. I have read, and heard on news casts that the Republican Party is primarily a white person’s party. I remember someone making that point at the convention when the camera scanned the delegates and hardly... ( added 2 years 294 days ago.)

Explain this Filibuster and Reconciliation Stuff to Me! - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
There has been a lot of news talk about the 60 vote threshold vs. the budget reconciliation process. Unless you are a political junky these terms may be baffling. A brief definition of these two terms is in order. Actually the terms have to do with procedural rules of the Senate (akin to... ( added 2 years 319 days ago.)

Man of Steele - Spine of Jello - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
Because I am overt and clearly pro-choice when it comes to abortion and stem cell research, I get a lot of negative feedback whenever my writing contains those views. I am used to mostly religious and mostly Republican commenter blasting me for even discussing the topic. For most religious right... ( added 2 years 334 days ago.)

It's Not Always Wise to Privatize - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
In recent years I have seen this assumption result in a lot of privatization schemes such as privatized prisons, privatized child abuse social workers, the privatization of many of the support and protection functions needed in our wacky war in Iraq , and there was even a costly effort to turn... ( added 2 years 339 days ago.)

Health Care - So Big it Must Fail (And the 50 Year Depression) - e⁽⁶⁾
A couple of years ago I wrote about the coming 50 year depression. I was laughed at of course, but with the real possibility of European nations going broke and a right wing nationalism growing between the cracks, massive upheavals of social contracts are sure to follow. Maybe even war. Similar... ( added 58 days 23 hours ago.)

People - To Big To Fail - e⁽⁶⁾
It’s been building for thirty years, ever since Ronald Reagan asked Allen Greenspan if they could get away with raiding the Social Security Trust Fund to give tax breaks to the wealthy. Greenspan replied, “Maybe for thirty years or so.” Well, the thirty years are up, and so... ( added 114 days 22 hours ago.)

A Snapshot of a Failing Economy - e⁽⁶⁾
Two great pools of wealth, although seemingly at odds, are nontheless conjoined at the hip. Private enterprise hates it when they have to pay high wages or provide expensive benefits, so they look for ways to mitigate this by killing unions domestically and investing overseas where the labor... ( added 161 days 20 hours ago.)

Is Obama Right? Does The Financial System Need Changed? - Beth Kade
Obama will speak on Wall Street in an effort to convince Congress to move ahead and approve a complete overhaul to the financial industry. It has been one year since the collapse of the Lehman Brothers bank and he is set to not only defend his economic policies but urge Congress to carry out... ( added 2 years 149 days ago.)

Winners, and True Believers - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
I was once elected president of a teacher’s association and one of my responsibilities was to be the chair of our PAC (our Political Action Committee). The main responsibility of our Teacher PAC was to interview candidates for the school board and to endorse a candidate, giving that person... ( added 2 years 159 days ago.)

Can a Liberal Change His Mind? - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
I find it very difficult to be open to other positions or ideas when I am sure my own position or idea is the right one. Doesn’t this make sense? Why would anyone that is sure he is right stop and give an open honest listen to something you already think is wrong? What I try to do in my... ( added 2 years 171 days ago.)

Health Care Townhall Mobs: It’s AstroTurf not Grassroots - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
To be fair, officially, the Republican Party, through the elected head of their party, denies that these town hall protests are not created by the Republican Party, but are actually real, grass root, spontaneous outrage pouring out unbidden from average American’s opposed to Obama’s... ( added 2 years 186 days ago.)

More Health Reform Q&A - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
Q: Can't a liberal like you see anything wrong with socialized medicine, the thing you call a single payer option? &nbs ( added 2 years 194 days ago.)

Sotomayor Faces Dumb Questions - RR Tex Norman⁽⁷⁸⁾
The Republicans at the Sotomayor Hearing have heaped shame upon their party as they flooded the atmosphere with stupid, stupid, stupid questions that way too often held a magnifying glass over the secret racism that runs through the Republican Party like marbling in a rib eye state.... ( added 2 years 206 days ago.)

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