Political Animal (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
WHEN IN DOUBT, BLAME DEMS.... Matt Corley found this gem, showing far-right uber-activist Grover Norquist on CNBC yesterday, discussing the economy. "Well, the economy's in the present state because when the Democrats took the House and Senate in 2006, you...
qwstnevrythg.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
http://thinkprogress.org… Think Progress by Matt Corley In October, ABC News reported that despite President Bush’s promises that the National Security Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program was aimed only at terrorists, the NSA frequently listened to and transcribed the private phone calls of Americans abroad. The network’s report was based on whistleblower interviews with...
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, Ryan Powers, and Igor Volsky Think Progress Having promised to " sprint to the finish " of his second term and "to remain focused on the goals ahead," President Bush is "working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules " aimed at protecting workers,...
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Matt Corley thinkprogress.org Nov 7th, 2008 At the American Bar Association’s conference on national security yesterday, CIA senior deputy general counsel John Rizzo recommended that President-elect Barack Obama “address immediately detainee issues at Guantanamo Bay and in the CIA’s interrogation program.” Rizzo said that the agency’s interrogation and detainee program needs “urgent ”...
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Illustration by Victor Juhasz October 29, 2008 By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, Ryan Powers, and Pat Garofalo The Progress Report Recently, the right wing has seized on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) admission that he wants to " spread the wealth around " as evidence that his tax policies are somehow socialist, communist, or Marxist....
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, and Ryan Powers The Progress Report Seizing on comments Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) made to " Joe the Plumber ," Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) campaign has argued that Obama's economic policies would redistribute the wealth of hard working Americans and provide " just another government giveaway to others...
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, and Ryan Powers The Progress Report Half of all workers would join a union if they could. But as director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund's American Worker Project David Madland writes, "Existing laws make joining a union a Herculean task that few are able to undertake." Indeed,...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
The Center for American Progress: Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, and Ryan Powers: > Economy -- Avoiding Neo-Hooverism: Recently, several media commentators as well as politicians have been championing what the Center for American Progress Action Fund's Matthew Yglesias dubbed "neo-Hooverism" -- the notion that the next president...
