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October 31, 2002
  • NoWar Blog- Left-Right Against War - I've joined the mass group blog No War Blog put together by my friend Max Sawicky. The basic unity statement... MORE...
  • More Corporate Criminals at Bush Admin - First, Harvey Pitt kills the nomination of a real audit watchdog to the new auditing oversight board, because the auditing... MORE...

    October 30, 2002
  • Shocking! Wellstone Memorial Political - This piece from Slate is the nice version of the tsk-tsking of the "politicization" of Wellstone's funeral. A lot of... MORE...

    October 29, 2002
  • Why the 50-50 Kaus Analysis is Bunk - Kaus is getting some play with a thesis that we have become a bitterly divided nation on the 50-yard line... MORE...
  • When NOT to Hold a Rally - How about when you will look absolutely pathetic compared to the opposing side? I was down in DC at the... MORE...
  • Ecuador May Join Brazil, Venezuela - Amidst the news of Lula's win in Brazil, lost from most international news was the surprise front place victory of... MORE...
  • Do GOP Presidents Expand Govt? - P.L.A. has some compelling numbers on how, against conventional wisdom, the number of government employees expanded more under GOP Presidents... MORE...

    October 28, 2002
  • Why Divest from Israel - Israel is just that issue that just slams a knife between allies on most other issues. MaxSpeak has gone after... MORE...
  • Labor Monday- Special Wellstone Edition - A Man for the Workers- Paul Wellstone Wellstone was dedicated to rewriting labor laws to strengthen the ability of unions... MORE...
  • Wellstone R.I.P. - This is the image that I most respect about Wellstone, not the passionate speeches on the floor of the... MORE...
  • Lula Wins - I've been away travelling for days, so there are many extraordinatry events to note-- the tragedy of Wellstone's death, the... MORE...

    October 24, 2002
  • Forrester: Put a Fork in Him - He's done. Read this New York Times story on how Forrester used Enron-economics to lie about the value of his... MORE...

    October 23, 2002
  • Why Polls May Skew Conservative - MyDD makes a good case that with so many people refusing to answer polling phone calls, the question becomes how... MORE...
  • Why Big Donors Represent Little People - Opensecrets.org, the admirable archive of campaign finance research, has released a report on the biggest donors over the last decade... MORE...
  • Patient Overloads on Nurses Kill - In a major study by the National Institutes of Health, it was found that every additional patient in a nurses... MORE...

    October 22, 2002
  • Labor and Politics - Leo Casey asks in response to my post on Labor's endorsement of Pataki, on an email list we share: Although... MORE...
  • Myth of Declining Voting Turnout - Every election we inevitably have discussions about Americans failure to turnout to vote. Given how much gerrymandering has made elections... MORE...
  • Want Feedback on Site Design - Hey all! As you can see, I've mucked around and added drop-down menus for navigation at the top of the... MORE...

    October 21, 2002
  • Krugman on Instapundit's Sweden Silliness - Krugman dissected Instaman's distorted stats that Swedes are far poorer than the US if you use GNP per capita as... MORE...
  • Employers/Bush Lied About Port Shutdown Costs - Remember those estimates that the port shutdown was costing the US economy $1 to $2 billion per day? Turns out... MORE...
  • Terror: 336,000 Deaths in Indonesia - Last week, 150 people died in Bali due to a terrorist bombing. Each year, 336,000 children under 5 die, 60%... MORE...
  • Why Blogs Matter - Avedon Carol argues that you get better news and opinion on the web, including from yours truly, than in mainstream... MORE...
  • Horror "Comfort Food" - Remember post-911 cultural commentators predicting a desire for quaint cultural "comfort food." Sure, we definitely have a few new Americana... MORE...
  • Unions Endorse Pataki- So what? - Upfront, let me say I'd be voting for McCall on the Working Families party line if I voted in New... MORE...
  • Labor Monday 10-21 - On the Docks: Beating employers to the punch of filing their own charge, the dockworkers have filed a charge... MORE...

    October 19, 2002
  • Scientific Knowledge Suppressed - Unclassified but "sensitive" research funded by the government has been systematically suppressed by the Bush administration in the name of... MORE...
  • Unbelievable! Bush Wants SEC Funding Cut - Once again, Bush is using "security needs" to justify protecting his corporate buddies. Now he wants a 27% cut in... MORE...

    October 17, 2002
  • Community Thurs. 10-17 - Roundup of Community stories, Oct. 17, 2002 Hitting the grassroots, the ACLU has launched a $3.5 million television and grassroots... MORE...
  • Tapped New Look - Despite Kausfiles predictions (see Monday 14th) of impending doom for Tapped -- American Prospect's weblog -- it instead has a... MORE...
  • Ding, Dong..Homeland Security is Dead - At least for now. The Department of Homeland Security was always a stupid idea -- from its creepy name to... MORE...
  • Napster Driving up Concert Tickets - This article makes a good case that file sharing is driving up concert ticket prices for rock concerts. Why? Because... MORE...

    October 16, 2002
  • 50,000 Visits - Well - a small milestone for this web site as it crossed 50,000 visitors since it opened for business in... MORE...
  • Enviro Wed, 10-16 - Roundup of environmental stories, Oct. 16, 2002 An independent auditing group set up by Congress has found that the Bureau... MORE...
  • A New Enemies List - For a laugh, check out this new "anti-American" enemies list from FreeRepublic, which manages to mix Mumia, Pat Buchanan, Al... MORE...
  • Lautenberg Puts War in Perspective - Watch the chickenhawks to be outraged by this statement by Lautenberg. Responding in a debate with Forrester, who denigrated his... MORE...
  • The Enronization of the Army - More Union-Busting by Bush administration through outsourcing and privatization in the Army. Former Enron official and now-Army Secretary Thomas White... MORE...
  • Let's Talk About US Terrorism - Salon has a good reminder that state terrorism has been a normal weapon of US policy and of its allies,... MORE...

    October 15, 2002
  • Tech Tuesday, 10-15 - Roundup of Tech Stories, Oct. 15, 2002 At the Supreme Court, the tech news was the oral arguments on Eldred... MORE...
  • 25% of US have no Coll. Bargaining Rts - New AP story outlines the chunk of Americans who have no right to join a union, including temporary workers and... MORE...
  • Guiliani to Get $4.3 Million from Mexico - Giuliani will be paid $4.3 million for a one-year consulting contract with the Mexico City police department-- an obscene amount... MORE...
  • Bush on Futility of Fighting Terror - Bush's is opposing the 'fingerprinting' of bullets to identify criminals like the DC area sniper. Says Bush spokesperson Ari Fleischer,... MORE...
  • NJ Decision & Statutory Interpretation - Jeff Cooper has a very good explanation of why what the NJ Supreme Court did was not only normal, in... MORE...
  • Remixed Propaganda - From the nice folks at Cafeshops.com. Check out a full selection.... MORE...
  • If Bowles Can Do It, Why not Daschle? - Down in North Carolina, Dem candidate Erskine Bowles has called for killing the rest of Bush's tax cuts for the... MORE...
  • A Worthy Project - You have to have been overwhelmed by the beauty of Yosemite to understand the dismay of environmentalists that an equally... MORE...
  • Bush Fav Union Leader Could be Indicted - A group of top union leaders caught up in insider trading scandal? You'd think the Bush administration and the GOP... MORE...

    October 14, 2002
  • Labor Monday 10-14 - Roundup of Stories, October 14, 2002 Special On the Docks Section The dockworkers are back on the job, but the... MORE...

    October 13, 2002
  • Confirming by Ideology- Schumer Gets it Right - Read this piece by Sen. Schumer who lays out why explicit ideological tests for judges is healthy for democracy and... MORE...

    October 11, 2002
  • Tapped Goes Nativist (sorta) - I have to admit to being both perplexed and dismayed by this response by Tapped (scroll down) to my recent... MORE...
  • Forecast: Pain- Retail Sales Plunge - Retail sales fell by 1.2 Percent last month-- a probably death sign for imminent recovery. The only thing that has... MORE...

    October 10, 2002
  • The ILWU Restraining Order - Here Update: Some have asked how a court could hold the union in contempt for just following the safety rules... MORE...
  • Bush Opposing States Rights - Siding against states rights to innovate on policy, Bush's Justice Department has filed a motion with a federal appeals court... MORE...
  • Amnesty, Partisanship and Pandering - House Minority leader Dick Gephardt addressed a rally in D.C. in support of amnesty for millions of undocumented workers, taking... MORE...
  • Stewart on Dockworkers Injunction - John Stewart is God! On his Daily Show broadcast, Stewart replayed Bush solemnly talking about the economic harm from the... MORE...
  • Community Thursday (10-10) - Roundup of community activism, Oct. 10 Repression? Organize! The Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee has seen a doubling of membership in the... MORE...
  • The Real Population Count - An Appeals Panel has told the Census Bureau to release the adjusted census count that statistically compensates for those missed... MORE...

    October 09, 2002
  • McCain Weaker Than Gore Against Bush - For those still entertaining the McCain fantasy, note this Zogby interactive poll where McCain actually does worse against Bush than... MORE...
  • About Time! Dem Leaders Want SEC Head's Head - Gephardt and Daschle finally called on Bush to fire Harvey Pitt, industry's stooge at the SEC. The final straw was... MORE...
  • Truth Squad on SS Privatizers - Go to Sign the Pledge for info exposing the politician-hypocrites running away from their records advocating social security privatization, including... MORE...
  • Nazis and Feminist Jews - There is lots of back and forth on the Net about the use and misuse of the word "Nazi" but... MORE...
  • Ground Zero Opposes War - If this war on Iraq is being fought to avenge and prevent a repeat of 911, maybe the country and... MORE...
  • Enviro Wednesday (10-9) - Roundup of environmental stories, October 9 Send a "Dirty Dozen" e-card alerting friends to the worst polluters in Congress. Check... MORE...

    October 08, 2002
  • More on Taft-Hartley - Sam Heldman asks that I clarify why the ILWU and labor opposes an injunction ending the lock-out, when it is... MORE...
  • Bush Declares War on Labor - Bush is officially seeking a Taft-Hartley injunction in the dockworker lockout. Update: It turns out that Bush's own mediator had... MORE...
  • Veterans for Wellstone - In Minnesota, the 1.9 million member Veterans of Foreign Wars has endorsed none other than that national peacenik, Paul Wellstone.... MORE...
  • A Funny on NJ Senate Race - Here.... MORE...
  • Tech Tuesday Returns! 10-8 - Roundup of Tech Stories- October 8, 2002 As the Supremes assemble this week, all geek eyes are on Eldred v.... MORE...
  • Black Spot for Lautenberg - Damn, Robert Gregory just blew a big hole in my enthusiasm for Lautenberg. His weak ACLU ratings are not a... MORE...
  • More Tax Cuts to the Wealthy - Millions unemployed and small investors facing a retirement desert. What's the priority of the GOP? Upping the maximum contribution to... MORE...

    October 07, 2002
  • Bank Rewards Gramm w/ Job - Where's the public outrage on the senior Republican on the banking committee being given a job with a bank upon... MORE...
  • Rightwingers Conceding NJ Defeat - Newly reprinted absentee ballots are being sent out in NJ, meaning that any Supreme Court decision will "disenfranchise" those voters... MORE...
  • Bush is Toast in 2004 - When the public thinks a politician is fiddling while Rome burns, they are dead meat. The public will embrace all... MORE...
  • Politics is a Contact Sport - Both Ted Barlow and Eschaton have both recently written about the viciousness of rightwing pundits, which is true but the... MORE...
  • Labor Monday (10-7) - Roundup of Labor Stories, Oct. 7, 2002 On the Docks: With Bush threatening to take the PATCO step of using... MORE...

    October 06, 2002
  • Bush Serving Corporate Interests - Not lefty rhetoric-- the opinion of the American people in this Times article demanding that politicians pay less attention to... MORE...
  • Not In Our Name - New Yorkers says No to Iraq War. This article is relatively accurate-- although as is typical, the media halved the... MORE...
  • More on Lautenberg's Record - Robert Gregory was surprised at my lauding of Lautenberg's progressive record, so I thought I'd add a bit more detail... MORE...

    October 05, 2002
  • 1.5 Million Italians March Against War - See here. And Turkey reaffirmed opposition to attack on Iraq: "Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said here Saturday evening in... MORE...
  • We're All Gonna Die - Stanley Roach on the sinking global economy.... MORE...
  • Feinstein Stabs Labor in the Back - Sen. Feinstein has announced her support for using the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act against West Coast longshore workers-- a massive betrayal... MORE...
  • The Myth that McCain is a Democrat - It's a bit disturbing that even Tapped has bought the line that McCain is now really just a Democrat parading... MORE...
  • Senator Byrd Speech Against War - See it here and listen to portions here.... MORE...
  • How Can Absentees Get Disenfranchised? - The big emotional gambit of the GOP in the New Jersey race is to worry about military absentee ballots. But... MORE...

    October 04, 2002
  • GOP Candidate Ignores "Clear" Meaning of Law - Here's an odd case in comparison to the Torricelli withdrawal; in Texas, a GOP candidate for state legislature was just... MORE...
  • Memo for NJ GOP - "And don't go whining to some higher court!"... MORE...
  • Where are Greens in Uncontested Races? - I admit it-- the Greens joining the GOP in the lawsuit on behalf of Forrester pissed me off almost as... MORE...
  • Stewart Mocks Bush on Corp Crime - Okay, I don't intend to make this a daily log of Jon Stewart's brilliant political attacks, but Fastow's arrest inspired... MORE...
  • Now- that's Solidarity - Denouncing any attempt by Bush to intervene in the West Coast port lockout/conflict between longshore workers and management, unions have... MORE...
  • Corporate Crooks Still Running Show - From today's NY Times: Harvey L. Pitt, under pressure from Republicans and former clients in the accounting profession, is backing... MORE...

    October 03, 2002
  • More on the Housing Bubble - From the Wall Street Journal.... MORE...
  • California: Where Democrats can be Democrats - [My Next Progressive Populist column-- some of this has appeared on the web site in bits and pieces but this... MORE...

    October 02, 2002
  • F----- Greens Join GOP to Oppose Lautenberg - The Green Party has joined with the GOP in court to oppose allowing Lautenberg, one of the most liberal folks... MORE...

    October 01, 2002
  • Jon Stewart on Torricelli - Stewart continues to deliver the best political commentary out there and captures why the whole David Chang gift issue is... MORE...
  • Hurray for Lautenberg - Assuming that the Dems can engineer Lautenberg onto the ballot and into office by whatever scenario, all I can say... MORE...
  • GOP Blocking Homeland Security - Bush's slander against Democrats last week was nasty but the worst part, as TAPPED notes is that it's THE GOP... MORE...
  • The Deficit's Back- So is the National Budget Simulation - Think you can do a better job on the budget than Congress? Check out www.budgetsim.org/nbs/ Back in 1995, as Gingrich... MORE...
  • The Independent Supreme Court - MORE...
  • Kettle-Pot-Black - Bruce Fein, the deputy attorney general for the hack political Attorney General for Ronald Reagan who led the politicization of... MORE...
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    February 21, 2007
  • Amnesia on the Death of Reconstruction - I am going to pick on Brad Delong precisely because he is a brilliant and well-educated academic-- and his list... MORE...

    February 18, 2007
  • So What if Mitt Wants A Person of Faith as President? - There's a bit of a furor that Mitt Romney declared:We need to have a person of fiath lead the country.So... MORE...

    February 16, 2007
  • States Taking Action Against Iraq Escalation - So the New York Times is covering the story that resolutions denouncing Bush's Iraq Escalation have been introduced in over... MORE...

    January 01, 2007
  • Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in... MORE...

    December 22, 2006
  • Dems' Stupid Positioning on Minimum Wage - As a followup to discussing why politicians need to appeal to a broad consensus, it's worth emphasizing that it's easier... MORE...

    December 21, 2006
  • Obama and the Need for Large Progressive Majorities - I've been as disappointed as many other progressive bloggers with Obama's bad votes on tort reform and seeming trimming of... MORE...

    December 13, 2006
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    November 27, 2006
  • Ecuador Goes Left - Another country moves left-- whatever you want to say, Bush has been very good for reviving the global left, especially... MORE...
  • Building a Progressive Majority in the Statehouses - The Progressive States Network today rolled out its legislative agenda for the 2007 session and is looking to promote it... MORE...

    November 13, 2006
  • The Future Belongs to US - While the actual results seem razer-thin in this election, I'll be bold and argue that they are part of a... MORE...

    November 11, 2006
  • Pro-Labor "Conservative Democrats" - One more nail in the narrative that the victory of a few moderate Democrats means this election is really a... MORE...

    November 10, 2006
  • The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus... MORE...

    November 08, 2006
  • A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no... MORE...

    November 01, 2006
  • Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power.... MORE...

    October 19, 2006
  • Immigrant Poor Send More Foreign Aid than US Govt - The United States government spends less money on foreign aid as a percentage of its budget than almost any other... MORE...

    October 17, 2006
  • - Valuing Families:  State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look... MORE...

    October 09, 2006
  • Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be... MORE...

    October 03, 2006
  • Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6... MORE...

    September 27, 2006
  • Civil War on the Right- Dick Armey trashes Dobson - The economic business- right and the religious right are moving towards total civil war. This piece by former GOP Majority... MORE...

    September 24, 2006
  • Allen the Racist - Three college teammates confirm that George Allen regularly used the N- word: Allen said he came to Virginia because he... MORE...

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