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   ◊ Will Rogers

   ◊ Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

   ◊ H.L. Mencken

   ◊ Emma Goldman

   ◊  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Measuring Obama's Record

Democratic Leadership Fails American Public on Buffett Rule

At Historic Summit, Obama Rejects Fed Up Latin American Leader's Calls for Drug Legalization

The Pothole In Our Political Psyche

Understanding the Ideological Divide Between Liberals and Conservatives: Is It Possible for Us to Get Along?

Top 50 Things Accomplished by President Barack Obama

Former Mormon: What Americans Need to Know About Mormonism

Is the Media Ready to Stop Letting Politicians Lie?

The Court Battle Over Health Care Is a Struggle for a Future Vision for America

Israel, the US Elections and the "Jewish Swing Vote"

How Netanyahu Seeks to Change US Elections by Pushing War with Iran

Community Versus Individualism: How to Tell the Progressive Story

Giving Kucinich His Due

What America Lost When Dennis Kucinich Lost

Why Rising Gas Prices Could Backfire on the GOP in November

Ayn Rand Worshippers Should Face Facts: Blue States Are the Providers, Red States Are the Parasites

Why Progressives Can't Ignore Religion

Why Are GOP Candidates Competing to be the Greatest Friend of Israel? (Video)

Outrage: Congress Gives States the Go-Ahead to Drug Test for Unemployment Benefits

Why Obama's the Least Socialist President in Modern History (and That's a Shame)

9 Kick-Ass Things Obama Should Do in a Second Term

10 Facts About the Obama Budget

13 States Working Toward Smart, Sane Marijuana Laws

Social Security: A Tale of Two Mitties

Noam Chomsky: "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours" (Video)

Money and Morals

Debunking the "Entitlement Society" Myth

5 Big Lies About the Phony 'War on Religion'

Why the Right Wing Is Petrified of Letting Voters, Instead of the Electoral College, Pick Presidents

Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals

How the GOP Is Resegregating the South

The Republican Myth of Obama's "Entitlement Society"

Time to Rebuild the Middle Class, America's Backbone

Why Is Obama So Chicken, Unwilling to Even Address the Question of Pot and the Failed Drug War?

Is Mitt Romney's Candidacy Part of 'The Eternal Plan' of The Mormon Church?

The Truth About the Conservative Mind: Why Reactionaries from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Have Fought Real Liberty

The 10 Most Brazen Lies Offered by the Remaining GOP Hopefuls

5 Republican Lies About Income Inequality

Two Years After Citizens United, Time to Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

Americans Are Less Nationalistic Than Jingoist Politicians Think

Why Is There So Much God in Our Politics? The Religious Rights Theocratic Plan for the 2010 Election

The Uphill Battle in Citizens United: Tricky Legal Terrain and No Easy Fixes

We Must Stop This Corporate Takeover of American Democracy

Bad Bankers, Bad Fraud Deals, And the President's 'Great Gatsby' Problem

Thanks to Citizens United, Multinational Mega Lobbyist Firm Salivates Over $4 Billion in Campaign Cash

Mitt Romney Wouldn't Know a Free Market If It Bit Him on the Ass

The 20 Biggest Donors of the 2012 Election (So Far)

5 Founding Fathers Whose Skepticism of Christianity Would Make Them Unelectable Today

The Horror: What a Republican President Could Mean for the Supreme Court

Why Ron Paul Challenges Liberals to Come Up with Real Solutions on Finance and War

8 GOP Primary Moments that Would Make Jesus Weep

Fault Line: Politics, Religion and the Tea Party (Video)

Occupying the Conventions? How Protests Will Change Politics-As-Usual in 2012

Ron Paul Thinks Everything Is Unconstitutional

No Such Thing as a Radical Center Party

Why Some Right-Wing Christians Love Ron Paul (and Why Liberal Really Shouldn't)

10 Good Things About a Not So Bad Year

How the GOP Tries to Transform American Into a Selfish,  Souless Place

The Real Reason the GOP Primary is a Pathetic, Incompetent Side Show

Wilkerson on GOP Race (Video)

John Boehner: The Latest Tea Party Stooge

The Post-Truth Campaign

Why the Republican Crackup Is Bad for America

GOP Again Holds Working America Hostage to Its Perverse Ideological Priorities

WHO, Specifically, Blocked Millionaire Surtax?

Who Hates Our Freedoms, Part I

Not-Romney, But Dumber Than Dubya

When Did the GOP Lose Touch with Reality?

Why Washington Is Tied Up In Knots

What's Behind Obama's New Populist Tone?

Obama's Populism and the Ghost of Teddy Roosevelt

One Nation Under Sex: How Politician's Sex Lives Changed America's History

Democratic Governance Is Becoming Discredited (Video)

9 Ideas for Congress to Address the 99 Percent

John F. Kennedy Opposed Israel's Power

Speciesism and Veganism: Transcending Politics and Religion

The First Political Victory for the 99% Movement

Supertrouble

Wake Up Call: Jobs, Not Cuts

Flat Tax: Back in the USSR

The Republican Party's Time Has Come - and Gone

America's Deadly Dynamics with Iran

Why Republican Economics Won't Work

Victory: Senate Democrats Save Net Neutrality

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich

Political Class Clowns

End of the Reagan Narrative?

Rick Perry and the Bankruptcy of Modern Day Conservatives

Obama and Occupy Wall Street (Video)

People Distrust Government - Conservative Mission Accomplished

Republican Jobs Plan: And Economy for the 1%

DeFazio: A Politician That Understands Occupy Wall Street (Video)

A Manifesto for the Impending Second American Revolution

How Occupy Wall Street's Moral Vision Can Beat the Disastrous Conservative World View

The Other Occupation: How Wall Street Occupies Washington

The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America

What the New Deal Accomplished

Whose Side Are You One: The Moral Clarity of Occupy Wall Street

The 4 Billionaire 'Vultures' Trying to Pick Our Next President

Conservatives Want America to be a 'Christian Nation' -- Here's What That Would Actually Look Like

What Should Progressives Do About the President?

Meet the Wealthy Men Trying to Buy Our Upcoming Election

The Rise of the Pro-Ignorant Right Wing Puts Us All In Danger

9 Policies Conservative Were For Long Before They Were Against Them

Land of the Free, Home of the Turncoats

The End of the Middle Class

"The People's Budget" (Video)

Recovering the Constitution from Conservatives

Constitutional Conservatives Don't Know the Constitution (Video)

Tea Party America

Empire of Chaos: How 9/11 Shaped the Politics of a Failing State

US Tiptoes Toward Theocracy

By Not Creating Jobs, Obama Is Not Doing His Own Job. So Do We Have a President or Not?

Tea Party Terror: An Unholy War to Gain Tyranny of the Majority

The "Super Congress" Is a Scam Designed to Force Cuts to Popular Programs and Keep Taxes on the Rich Low

What Happened to Obama?

Corporate Dems Share GOP Wall Street Agenda

Debt Ceiling: The Democrats Take a Dive

The President Surrenders

How Dems Allowed the Tea Party to Rebrand the GOP (Video)

Capitulation

The Centrist Cop-Out

How to Rescue the American Dream from the GOP's Nightmare

Obama Is No Victim of the Right-Wing -- He's Pandered to Corporate Interests for Years

How Obama Squandered the High Hopes of Those Who Elected Him

Dennis Kucinich: "War Takes Money From  the American People & Gives It to War Profiteers"

The Current Political Landscape, Ideology vs. Reality

Sorry Elizabeth, Wall Street Said No

Go Gang of Seventy

FDR Warns Against Those Who Say "Of Course We Believe In Social Security" (Video)

Inside the Right-Wing Christian Law School That Brought Us Michele Bachmann

The Alarming Revival of Ayn Rand: The Right's Weirdest Idol of Them All

Our Missions Is Clear

Budget Games: Wall Street Calls the Play for Republicans

Elizabeth Warren's Choice: Politics or Independence

Shadows and Light

The President's Job Plan (Not)

6 Ways Atheists Can Ban Together to Fight Religious Fundamentalism

The Only Crisis Here Is the One the Republicans Are Making

Making a Progressive Case

What Obama Wants

They Don't Really Care About Us

Why the Tea Party Is Wrong

Why the GOP Loves the Debt

Backwards "Reasoning" Is Destroying Politics

The President Shames Republicans for Resisting Shared Sacrifice

Shock Doctrine: 'Emergency Finance Managers' and the Right-Wing's Power Grab

Infrastructure Work Is Needed and People Need the Work

Medicare Saves Money

There Are 10 Times as Many Atheists as Mormons: When Will Non-Believers Become a Political Force?

Ecstacy as Treatment for PTSD for Sexual Trauma and War? New Research Shows Very Promising Results

Patriotic Millionaires: "Tax Me!" (Video)

Five Progressive Tax Increases That Washington Won't Talk About

Why You Want the Government Running Health, Education and Defense

The Fascinating Story of How Shameless Right-Wing Lies Came to Rule Our Politics

Why Elizabeth Warren Scars Republicans

The Demise of the Moderate Republican

Give the People - and The People's Budget - A Seat at the Table

What Tea Partyers Ignore About the Founders

The Sneaky Ways the Christian Right Has Re-Trenched Itself In Our Politics

Don't Worry About Medicare. Worry About Medicaid

Will Only the Rich Be Able to Run for Office?

Our Chronic Cronyism -- and Corruption

"The People's Budget" (Video)

With an Eye on the Polls, Democrats to Push Tax Hikes for the Wealthy

13 Things We Know About Taxes

Yet Another Poll Shows... Plutocracy Stupid, Democracy Smart

Bullies

Obama Returns to His Moral Vision: Democrats Read Carefully!

No We Can't

The New Republican Landscape

3 Myths About Israel Promoted by the Right-Wing Pro-Israel Lobby

Oliver Stone: Don't Betray Us Barack --  End the Empire

Here's a Real Democratic Budget that Serves the Interest of the American People

Why Washington Isn't Working for the American People

How Obama's Cave In to GOP Extremists Will Devastate the Economy

Quilting a Movement

Why Any Deal to Cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid Would Be a Moral, Economic and Political Disaster

Five Fun Facts About the $14 Trillion National Debt

High Noon on Wall Street

The Republicans Big Lies About Jobs (and Why Obama Must Repudiate Them)

Why Move Jobs from Democracies to Thugocracies?

House GOP Take Aim on Elizabeth Warren

Crushing the Democrat's Base

Deficit Reduction Requires Shared Sacrifice

The Astonishing Stupidity of Not Raising Taxes on the Rich When Budgets Are Tight

How Democrats Can Become Relevant Again (And Rescue the Nation While They're At It)

Austerity and The Budget Wars (Video)

Chomsky: Only a Massive Uprising Will Change Our Politics

Campaigned as Social Security's Protectors, Legislating as Privatizers

How Did Super Bloated Defense Spending Become Such a Sacred Cow That We Can't Have a Debate About Cutting It?

Kennedy's Legacy, Fifty Years Later (Video)

Reclaiming Middle-Class America

Campaign to Cut Entitlements in the U.S. (Video)

Don't Pass Tax Cuts for the Rich and then Tell Me About Deficits

Why the Government Is More Afraid of Debt Than Depression

Obama to Blink First on Social Security

Why Democrats Lose

WikiLeaks and War Is a Lie - David Swanson (Video)

America: Why R Your Peeps So Dumb?

Gaibraith: Who's Side is Obama On?

Obama's Capitulation on Taxes

Republicans Willing to Grow the Deficit and Wealth Gap to Help Nation's Richest

A Tax Deal Fit for the Golden Age

The Green Economy Is Here and It Ain't Pretty

Obama's "Tax Holiday": A Poison Pill for Social Security

Senator's Impassioned Speech: "There Is a War Being Waged Against the Working Families of America" (Video)

Winning the Argument on Tax Cuts and Government Spending

Senate Republicans Filibuster Middle Class Tax Cut Extension

America's Shocking Unemployment Rate Is the Big Economic Crisis, Not the Deficit

Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership"

Rep. Kucinich Slams Fake Afghan Elections, Fake Withdrawal, Fake Taliban

Conservative's Perverse Notion That Economic Sabotage Can Win Them Elections

The Shakowsky Deficit Reduction Plan: A Proposal That Actually Strengthens Social Security

Is American Public About to Toss Israel?

Helen Thomas on Her Resignation and Middle East (Video)

Does Obama Have the Guts to Play Hardball?

Mourning in America: Death of the Middle Class

"Bipartisanship" Hides the Real Power Equation That No One Talks About

How Republicans and Their Big Business Allies Duped Tens of Millions of Evangelicals into Voting for a Corporate Agenda

Election Repudiated Corporate Dems (Video)

The More Money You Make The More Likely You'll Vote Republican

How Dems Allowed the Tea Party to Rebrand the GOP

Elections Results - People Are Collateral Damage

Yes, of Course They're Brownshirts. What the Hell Did You Expect?

Election Will Be Tramatic (Video)

A Compendium of the Corrupt Politicians and Corporate Campaign Cash Flooding This Election

Are Tea Party Members Getting Played?

The Big Biz Behind GOP's 'Small Gov'

A Robin Hood Tax to Pay for the Wars

The Perfect Storm that Threatens American Democracy

Rachel Maddow Busts Chamber of Commerce

GOP Runs on the "Big Lie"

Tea Party Socialism

8 Ways to Fight the Right-Wingers and Corporations Buying Off Our Government

Corporate Hijacking of Our Elections is Well Under Way, with Foreign Countries Chipping In to Destroy Our Democracy

The Family: Secretively Christian Group of Lawmakers Building a 'God Led' Government

The Cash Cow of Anonymity

Sanders: GOP Obstructionism "Unprecedented"

One Nation March to Pressure Obama Admin

Michael Moore: Five Ways the Democrats Can Avoid a Catastrophe and Pull Off the Mother of All Upsets

Matt Taibbi: Tea and Crackers, How Corporate Interests and Republican Insiders Built the Tea Party Monster

Crony Capitalism: Wall Streets Favorite Politicians

The Dismantling of Civilized Society

Republican Party's New Ideas After Two Years of Soul Search: Same as Old

Russ Feingold the Senates True Maverick in the Political Fight of His Life

Republicans Are Pledging Allegiance to the Disastrous Policies of the Bush Years

Is America's Military Prepared for the Israeli Threat?

10 Terrible Things Republicans Will Try to Do if They Take Over in November

The Angry Rich

What's Really at Stake in November?

This Country Just Can't Deal with Reality Anymore

12 of the Most Crooked Candidates on the Ballot in the 2010 Election

Elizabeth Warren Gets White House Nod

Why Rahm Emanuel's Political Calculations Were 100 Wrong

Two Billionaire Brothers Are Remaking America for Their Own Benefit

10 Things Dems Could Do Right Now to Avoid Electoral Disaster

Incredibly Obvious Things In Front of Our Faces

Chris Hedges on Moral Courage

Why American Elect Awful Presidents

Obama's "New Dawn" In Iraq

Take the "For Sale" Sign Off the Capital Lawn

Charge of the Sarah Palin Rough Riders

America Facing Depression and Bankruptcy

What Created the Populist Explosion and How Democrats Can Avoid the Shrapnel in November

Kucinich: Afghanistan is 'Spy vs Spy Carnival of Corruption'

America, Land of Paradox: The Country that Launched Corporate Globalization Should Be the First to End It

At War on Our Own Soil - How Do We Fight Against the Right Wing?

Congress: Act Now to Preempt the Catfood Commission

The Ecstasy of Empire: How Close Is America's Demise?

Get the Money Out of Judicial Elections

Who Runs the World and Why You Need to Know Immediately

How to Put a Stop to Corporate-Funded Government Before It Gets Totally Out of Control

How the Shadow Elite is Shorting 'Third World America'

Reagan Revolution Failure

Reagan Insider: 'GOP Destroyed U.S. Economy'

14 Ways a 90% Top Tax Rates Fixes Our Economy and Our Country

America Goes Dark

What a Collapsing Empire Looks Like

Elizabeth Warren Uncovered What the Gov't Did to 'Rescue' AIG, and It Ain't Pretty

The New Aristocrats of Finance Pose a Serious Threat to Our Democratic Way of Life

Danger! Empathy and Psychopathy as Competing Value Systems in Politics and Economics

The Coming 'Regulation Wars' Could Be a Bloodbath

The Decline and Fall of America

"This Is What Health Care Reform Looks Like": Congress Passes Health-Care Reform

McCain and Lieberman: A Threat to Americans Everywhere

Deem and Pass: Just Another Rule in the Game

US Democracy's End of the Road

Are the Democrats Losing Their Religion?

Disaster Capitalism Comes to Capital Hill

Where Do We Go From Here: Getting Rid of the Oligarchs

Bill Moyers & Thomas Frank: How America's Demented Politics Let the GOP Off the Hook for Their Giant Mess

Our "War" With Al Qaeda Is Getting Us Nowhere

Matt Taibbi and RFK Jr. on Obama's Sellout to Wall Street

It's Time to Get to Work Fixing Our Economic and Political Problems

One Day We'll All Be Terrorists

The Triumph of Ignorance: How Morons Succeed in U.S. Politics

America the Traumatized: How 13 Events of the Decade Made Us the PTSD Nation

How Real Health Care Reform Was Killed by Politicians Trying to Look 'Moderate'

The Ten Worst Nightmares Bush Inflicted on America

Why Our System Doesn't Work

Can We Rescue the Republic Before the Dark Politics Take Over?

Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right?

Man of War: Obama Caves in to Pentagon's Demands - 40,000 More Troops Going to Afghanistan

The Day Has Finally Arrived: The Plunder of Iraq's Oil

Scahill: Obama May Be Afraid of Blackwater

Israeli Terrorism Against America?? INCONCEIVABLE!

Obama and Pelosi Violate First Amendment on Health Care Abortion Amendment

Report: 237 Millionaires In Congress

The Fall of the Berlin Wall - After 20 Years, Isn't It Time to Dispel the Myth of Reagan?

Harry Reid Announces Senate Health Bill with Public Option

Reid and Pelosi Have Delivered on the Public Option -- Now Let's Get This Done

Is the End Near for the Right-Wing's Vice Grip on U.S. Israeli Policy

Pelosi Steps Up as Champion of the Public Option

Pass JUSTICE Act: Reform Patriot Act, Repeal Telecomm Immunity

10 Steps to Disastrous Financial Reform We Can't Allow the Government to Take

Glenn Greenwald: Right-Wingers and Corporations Benefit While Media Stays Distracted with ACORN

ACORN: The Most Cost-Effective Investment the Government (and Foundations) Have Every Made

Why Not Sanctions for Israel?

Obama at the UN: Pragmatic Idealism

The Israeli Occupation of America: How Israel Gained Control of American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion

To Democrats Who Voted to "Defund ACORN": Where's the Defund Blackwater Act?

Quietly, Sotomayor Turns on Corporations

5 Reasons the Baucus Health Bill Fails the basics

911: Truth, Trutherism, and Truthiness

Out of Service

Four More Years of Bailout Ben

Blue Dogs Have More to Lose Than Progressives

Eisenhower's Forgotten Warning and the Threat of Authoritarian Currents in Our Politics

Bill Moyers: Mr. President, We Need a Fighter to Take on the Deranged Right-Wing

After a Year of Sarah Palin, Alaskans Wonders, "What the Hell Were We Thinking"?

Drug Use by Political Candidates Isn't a Deal Breaker, But Hypocrisy on the Issue Should Be

Keeping It Simple, Stupid

Making Sense of the Senate's Inside Game

Obama's Squandered Honeymoon: How Botched Bailouts Hampered Health Care Reform

Lies About Health Care Reform Republicans Have Told Me

Opponents of Health Reform: Stupid, Greedy, or Just Gullible?

Prince of Pot Marc Emery on Farwell Tour as US Prison Term Looms

Name the Public Option After Kennedy, Not a Watered Down Bill

Naming a Health Care Bill After Ted Kennedy Would Be Exactly What The Senator Would Have Wanted

Re-Appointed Fed Chief Ben Bernanke Didn't Get Us Out of the Economic Crisis, He Helped Cause It

The Exponential Idiocy of 'Moderate' Democrats

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

Obama and the Dems Just Sound Too Wonky on Health Care

The Commonwealth of Morons

Is Obama Just Another Politician?

Is Obama Squandering Our Best Chance for Better Health Care?

Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?

Health Care Tyranny: They Stay In Power, You Stay Sick

7 Ways We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat

Is This Why Eric Holder Isn't Going After Bush Officials?

10 Awesome Thing That Would Happen If Health Care Reform Happens

How the White House's Deal with Big Pharmacy Undermines Democracy

The Threat Is Real: Why Right-Wing Rage at Town Hall Meetings Could Turn Deadly

Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Groups Do Corporate America's Dirty Work

Pelosi: Health Insurance Companies the Real "Villains"

How the Ultra-Rich Are Trying to Kill Health Reform

We Need Clear Thinking: There Should Be No Clash Between Public Option and Single Payer

The Wall Street Health Care Connection: Fat Cats Want to Tax Your Benefits

Republicans Will Be Toast in 2010 If the Dems Pass Health Reform, and They Know It

How Corporate Media, Sellouts in Congress and Industry Bigs Have Hijacked the Health  Care Debate

The New Energy Bill May Create a 'Super Lobby' of Powerful Opposition

Our Economy Has Failed -- It's the Reaganomics Stupid!

We're Screwed on Everything from Health Care to the Economy is Dems Don't Shape Up

Why EPA, Not Coal Burners, Should Be in Charge on Climate Change

Rhode Island Will License Medical Marijuana Shops

Obama Signs Financial Bill, Creating Investigative Panel

The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture -- Time to Fight Back?

Progressives Have a Chance to Dominate American Politics for the Next 40 Years

Was Ronald Reagan a Worse President Than George W. Bush?

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