Why Bob Barr Matters
On Tuesday, July 22nd Georgia holds a run-off election to the May primary. National attention is focused on the Senate race between Cong. Jack Kingston and David Perdue. The winner will face Michelle...
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Boehner's History of Inaction on Border Control
Speaker of the House John Boehner seems to be in need of a refresher course in how legislation is supposed to happen in the American system of government. Over the course of the past year, Boehner has...
View ArticleMethod to Madness in GOP Talk of Obama Impeachment
In times past, Sarah Palin's blunt call for the impeachment of President Obama for his alleged bungling of the border crisis would have been laughed off, as it deservedly should. Simply consider the...
View Article7 Reasons Consumers Won't Love the $7 Billion Citigroup Deal
The Justice Department's settlement with Citigroup was finally announced today. A $7 billion settlement against a too-big-to-fail bank? What's not to love? We'll answer that with another question: If...
View ArticleCitigroup: The Original Gangsta
Barack Obama's Justice Department on Monday announced that Citigroup would pay $7 billion in fines, a move that will avoid a humiliating trial dealing with the seamy financial products the bank had...
View ArticleDismiss the Ditz
It is easy to lambast the media for lavishing the unconscionable amount of attention to discredited figures like former Vice-President Dick Cheney on topics like war and foreign policy but as a...
View ArticleWill Comcast's Shoddy Customer Service Practices Snowball with a Time Warner...
Anyone who has dealt with Comcast customer service knows it's a purgatory of long waiting time, transfers to nobody who can help resolve your issue, and dealing with inexperienced representatives who...
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House GOP's IRS Budget Cuts: A Field Day for Tax Cheats
The IRS has absorbed big cuts in recent years that have weakened enforcement and damaged taxpayer service. The House Appropriations Committee passed a 2015 IRS budget that would cut the IRS even...
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Here's How Democrats Can Win This November 2014
"All Politics Are Local" "All politics are local" and debunking lies and deceptions demand constancy and perseverance wherever they're spread. Considering what President Obama and the Democrats have...
View ArticleThe Privilege of Normalcy
I can't even imagine what it must be like. I can empathize, but no one who hasn't experienced it can understand how hellish a place must be for parents to send their offspring -- unaccompanied -- into...
View ArticleIsrael Inflicts Illegal Collective Punishment on Gaza
Israel has commenced full-scale warfare on the people of Gaza. The recent tensions began about six weeks ago when Israeli forces abducted 17 Palestinian teenage boys in the occupied West Bank. Then, on...
View ArticleI Spent 36 Hours in a Holding Cell on the US-Mexico Border
It was January 30, 2013, a cool, overcast winter day in Southern California. The plan was to drive in to Mexico, turn around, file some visa paperwork at the border, get my visa and continue on with my...
View ArticleRaising the Floor for Home Care Workers Is Critical to the Nation's Economic...
Transforming low-wage jobs into good jobs that provide living wages is a critical path to robust economic growth. Just ask Flora Johnson, a home care worker from Illinois, whose salary is rising from...
View ArticleReport from Berlin: Global Trade Deals Can No Longer Include Investor-State...
As negotiations move forward on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a wide range of German elected and civic leaders are in disbelief that the U.S. remains serious about...
View ArticleThe Obama Administration Must Let the American People See Footage of My...
Last week, Obama administration lawyers filed a stack of documents in a case about my husband -- including sealed videos of him being taken to be force-fed at Guantanamo Bay. I don't think I could bear...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Non-Working Rich
In a new Pew poll, more than three quarters of self-described conservatives believe "poor people have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything." In reality, most of...
View Article3 Steps To Easy Money From Illegal Immigration
In recent years the influx in children from Central America -- particularly Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador has increased beyond the governments anticipation. Back in 2011, roughly 4,059 children...
View ArticleLet's Be Clear Who Has Caused the Border Crisis -- Us and Drugs
The massive influx of young refugees from Honduras and other Central American countries is due to the drug war, to the illegality of drugs, to the commerce in drugs, and to the unrealism of how we...
View ArticleNew Revelations Cast More Doubt on Bruce Rauner's Fitness For Office
Veteran Illinois political reporter Kurt Erickson has detailed new bombshell revelations exposing yet more direct links between Bruce Rauner and the mistreatment and deaths of the most vulnerable of...
View ArticleSnowden, Go Home
Edward Snowden, leaker extraordinaire of classified NSA documents, is said to be seeking an extension of his political asylum in Russia, where he has resided, beyond the reach of US jurisdiction and...
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