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A Warren Run Would Change Everything
Dec. 17, 2014 12:05 pm
By Thom Hartmann A...
Over the past few weeks, Elizabeth Warren has emerged as a leader of progressives on Capitol Hill. She led the charge against the part of the CRomnibus that gutted our financial regulations, and she is still fighting the White House over its nomination of bankster Antonio Weiss as Undersecretary of Domestic Finance in the Treasury Department.
We Thought We Were Free...
Dec. 16, 2014 1:06 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...
Are we really the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On Thanksgiving Day, 26-year-old law student Cesar Baldelomar was pulled over by a police officer in northwest Miami. So what was the reason for his stop? He was playing the song “F**K Tha Police” by N.W.A on his radio.
Scalia Is Dead Wrong On Torture
Dec. 15, 2014 1:05 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...
Torture is about as immoral and unconstitutional as it gets, but that’s not how Antonin Scalia sees it.
During an interview with a Swiss radio station last week, the Supreme Court Justice argued that it isn’t so clear that torturing people is wrong and ineffective.He said,
How could Democrats vote for the "Cromnibus"???
Dec. 12, 2014 7:01 amBy Thom Hartmann A...
Last night, with only hours to go before the government shut down, the House of Representatives passed the so-called “Cromnibus” bill to keep government running. As usual, Republicans used the looming deadline to force through massive cuts and more deregulation. And, once again, far to many Democrats went along with the Republican hostage-taking. Is the Koch Brothers' Curriculum Coming to Your Child's School?
Dec. 11, 2014 1:08 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...
The Koch Brothers are trying to re-write history. Caitlin MacNeal over at TPM is reporting that the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has “encouraged” state high school teachers to start teaching a curriculum that was drafted by a Koch Brothers-funded group.
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At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
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