January 2012
Obama Urges Tougher Laws on Financial Fraud -... →
Rick Santorum thinks pregnancy through rape is... →
What you missed: the NDAA allows the President to... →
Over half of the prisoners there - 89 of the 171 remaining prisoners - have been cleared for release for more than two years, but prevented from being transferred out of Guantánamo by prior congressional restrictions.
5 Republican Lies About Income Inequality | |... →
What 'Right to Work' Means for Indiana's Workers:... →
Full Text of Obama's State of the Union →
The People's Record: What. The. Fuck. →
“We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’: we must always be a nation of ‘haves’ and ‘soon-to-haves.’”
Republican governor MITCH “I really said that” DANIELS, in delivering the GOP response to the State of the Union Tuesday night.
Continuing the…
Forever Liberal: 10 facts about the state of the... →
think-progress:
Find more facts at ThinkProgress:
1. Since the last SOTU, the economy has created 1.9 million private sector jobs. [Source] 2. The top 1 percent take home 24 percent of the nation’s income, up from about 9 percent in 1976. [Source] 3. Private sector job creation…
Congress urged to return ‘dirty money’ from the... →
Gingrich threatens to boycott debates without... →
Obama paid nearly double the tax rate of Mitt... →
The BRAD BLOG : Do Romney's 2010 Tax Returns... →
1) Romney and his wife, Ann, bought a $12.5 million home in La Jolla, California, in May 2008.
2) A year later, in April 2009, the Romneys sold their home in Belmont, Massachusetts, for $3.5 million, and allegedly registered to vote from an address in the basement of an 8,000 square-foot Belmont manse owned by their son Tagg.
3) the National Journal reported in May 2009 that the Romneys had...
Romney’s released tax return reveals 13.9% rate,... →
“I cannot recall such an obvious example of a member of Congress allocating money...”
– Barney Keller from the Club of Growth on the subject of a former Representative that gave an earmark to a small company who then hired him to lobby for them after he left Congress. Read more in the New York Times. (via govtoversight)
“He makes his money the same way I make my money. He makes money by moving around...”
– Warren Buffett, on why Mitt Romney should pay higher taxes. (via think-progress)
Robert Reich: The State of Our Disunion: A... →
robertreich:
Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama will make the case that government has a vital role. His…
