A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) – Congress’s nonpartisan research arm – touched a nerve among free-market ideologues, who reacted to the wonky policy brief by accusing CRS of partisanship and calling their analysis into question. But politicians from both parties, as well as these same ideologues, often cite CRS data and…

From FAIR‘s Ted Koppel’s Terrible Media Criticism:  KOPPEL: The bifurcation is really extreme. I mean, the left is further left and the right is further right. MAHER: The left is not further left. The left is further right. See, this is the problem that the media makes. The left is not further left. The Republicans…

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including $400 billion in interest payments on debt from prior wars. Where do 53% of your Tax dollars go? To fund the most enormous war machine the world has ever known.  Our defense budget is larger than the next 26 countries’ combined.

“I think, umm, my biggest concern obviously would just be for the — ummm– his emotional well-being. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness, in his leadership skills … So for me it would just be the emotional part of it.”

Someone from France told me she found it incredible that many American streets lack sidewalks. Here many communities are built for cars, not people.  This is especially true of suburbs, where pedestrian traffic is at risk from speeding vehicles. In much of Europe people promenade through the streets in the evening, and people shop at…

“One corporation paid $26,000 a year to maintain a post office box in Bermuda as its legal headquarters. That little trick saved them $40 million in corporate taxes…  If you raise these issues you are accused of class warfare. There is class warfare all right. It’s been successfully waged by the affluent 1 percent against…

Let’s hear three jeers for Washington State, which yet again has the ignoble distinction of the most regressive tax structure in the nation – a “soak the poor” system where those with the least pay the highest tax rates. An updated report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) that examines how state…

So Mitt Romney thinks that 47 percent of us are moochers. Let’s keep in mind that Mr. Romney is only referring to the federal income tax. He disregards what comes out of each and every one of our paychecks for Social Security and Medicare. And that’s a hefty amount — 7.65 percent before the great…

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5. Activist and economist Gar Alperovitz offers a diagnosis of what ails America, and prescribes what Noam Chomsky calls “concrete and feasible” solutions. Alperovitz’s emerging “new economy” strategies propose locally-based, bottom-up efforts that democratize wealth and empower communities—changing a faltering system that,…