According to the upcoming New York Times Magazine, during the time of the tough negotiations over executive compensation headed by pay czar Kenneth Feinberg, Wall Street had an ally - in both the Treasury Department and the New York Federal Reserve.

The TSA - which keeps us safe from airplane bombers - is without a director.  Why would one of our most vital security agencies be headless?  Well, it's actually quite simple.

Republican Sen. Jim DeMint has used the attempted attack on a airplane bound for Detroit to go after working-class Americans.

Monday

The gift our country needs this Holiday season is an economy that serves us instead of us just serving those who own or control most of the economy.

Former technology officer for Microsoft Nathan Myhrvold thinks that he has found a cheap and reliable way to solve global warming.

The Good. Al Franken for wielding the gavel on Liebermann.

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With apologies to Pastor Niemöller:

First they came for the banksters, and showered them with money and put them in the Administration in a way that was not change we could believe in.

Senate Democrats on Monday evening dropped the plan to include the Medicare to 55 expansion, winning the support of Joe Lieberman and the acquiescence of liberals, in another major step toward building enough support to pass a health-care corporaterrorist giv

What is the growing cost of placating Joe Lieberman as he now loudly proclaims he will filibuster the Senate healthcare compromise of the compromised reformed that's been compromised?

France is looking to match Britain's choice yesterday to impose a one-time 50% windfall tax on bank bonuses.  Amazing what you can get done in a country where it's illegal to bribe politicians!

The House GOP leadership “met with more than 100 lobbyists at the Capitol Visitors Center” on Tuesday to form a plan about how to kill financial reform legislation.

USA TODAY is reporting- When the swine flu vaccine was most scarce, health officials gave thousands of doses to corporate clinics at Walt Disney World,Toyota, defense contractors, oil companies and cruise lines."As a Democratic member of Congress asked, "Was corporate

Hour One - Why the populist left should be reaching out to the populist right...why move on members should be showing up at tea party rallies