Facts about the Top 1%
According to Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the richest 1 percent of Americans now own 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. Twenty-five years ago the top 1 percent owned 33 percent of national wealth. The...
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Should MoveOn have sent this email?
I got the email below from MoveOn.org, asking me to call Senators Cantwell and Murray and ask them to support President Obama’s jobs bill. Of course, I support the bill, and our senators should...
The Occupy and D.C. protesters are True Patriots and should wear tri-cornered hats
How un-American: torture, immoral wars, vote fixing, imprisonment without trial, handouts and taxbreaks for billionaires, desecration of the environment, government for the corporations, theocratic combining of church and state, free trade agreements that ship...
What's the purpose of the Wall Street and Oct 6 protests?
The Occupy Wall Street and Oct 6 protests are positive, in that they raise awareness, but it’s hard to see how to leverage them for significant gains at the polls. They may cause Republicans...
Link: Jon Stewart's funny and powerful defense of the Wall Street protests
Jon Stewart comes to the defense of Occupy Wall Street It’s more than humor. There’s real, intelligent journalism.
Big protest at Westlake Park, noon Saturday
Progressives of all stripes are converging at Westlake Center in Seattle tomorrow at noon for a big protest against corruption and injustice. Joining hundreds of similar protests around the country, activists will be saying...
Problems on the Left: a repeat of 2000 and 2008?
Monday at Drinking Liberally in Bellevue, a Democratic friend angrily confronted me and asked me to tone down my criticisms of President Obama. “Do you want a repeat of 2000 when Nader handed the...