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June 2004 Page

June 30, 2004
  • SEIU Endorses Gay Marriage - Once upon a time, the Democrats were described as a party divided between culturally conservative unions versus McGovernite cultural liberals.... MORE...

    June 28, 2004
  • Barbie Loses/Public Wins - This court decision is one of the most important in recent years. Not because the court declared that the artist-defendant,... MORE...

    June 27, 2004
  • Fahrenheit Damn Good - Even on a sunny Sunday afternoon, the lines at my favorite movie theater for the film was amazing, like nothing... MORE...
  • SEIU Beats Arnie in Budget Fight - When Arnie announced plans to slash state funds for home health care workers, many analysts thought he'd roll over the... MORE...

    June 26, 2004
  • New Jobs- No Health Benefits - Whatever jobs are being created, most aren't accompanied with health benefits. So says the HMO executives who aren't seeing new... MORE...
  • Vatican: Okay to Vote for Pro-Abortion Politician - On top of the general "each bishop can do their own thing" statement by the Conference of Catholic Bishops released... MORE...
  • Farhenheit Sells Out - ...the Box Office, at least here in New York City. I didn't reserve tickets ahead of time and now they... MORE...

    June 25, 2004
  • Jim Crow Comes North - Across the South, Jim Crow disenfranchisement continues in the form of barring ex-felony offenders from voting. Given racism in our... MORE...

    June 24, 2004
  • In Iraq, It's the Jobs, Stupid - Why has Iraq been reduced to a politics of ethnic and religious rivalry? This is a country with a rich... MORE...
  • Arnie, the Tribes & the Unions - Okay, this is kind of bizarre. When Arnold negotiated his recent deal with California tribes over casino gambling, one of... MORE...

    June 23, 2004
  • More on Stern Labor Speech - If you read the text of Andy Stern's speech at the SEIU National Convention, the vision he lays out for... MORE...
  • Religious Right Loses - Sometimes in all the heat and rhetoric-- and occasional dire worries-- it's nice to be reminded that on some fundamental... MORE...

    June 22, 2004
  • SEIU's Stern Blasts AFL-CIO - Gear up for big debates on the future of the labor movement after the November election. Andy Stern, head of... MORE...
  • Inequality Kills You - When folks feel oppressed in the workplace, they often have the fantasy that at least the top dogs in a... MORE...
  • Bush Flip-Flops on Health Law - Back in 2000, Bush touted a 1997 Texas law, allowing consumers to sue HMOs, as a model for dealing with... MORE...

    June 21, 2004
  • Bush versus Science - As has been noted, Bush's failed relationship with the truth has extended to undermining scientific standards when it served his... MORE...
  • NLRB Unrolls Assault on Labor Rights - Partly due to slow and revolving appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, the Bush NLRB has not had a... MORE...

    June 20, 2004
  • Statistics are Not Reality - The new economic story among the establishment is that the stupid masses don't recognize that economic stats are telling them... MORE...
  • Weirdest WiFi Problem - Away from politics for a second, I have the weirdest wifi problem. When I visit a friend wth my laptop,... MORE...

    June 16, 2004
  • Our Society Hates Mothers - Why do women continue to make less money than men? Because they take care of kids-- or at least that's... MORE...
  • Iraq War Destroying Army - Well, Bush has accomplished one mission-- undermining the future of the military as more and more GIs decide not to... MORE...

    June 15, 2004
  • Nader is No Progressive Now - Read this interview with Nader in Pat Buchanan's American Conservative magazine. I'm sorry-- while Ralph says some nice antiwar things,... MORE...
  • Halliburton Rips Off Taxpayers - Speaking of Halliburton, if NASA hands over operations to corporate subcontractors, here is the kind of ripoffs we can expect:... MORE...
  • They Just Keep Lying - The International Red Cross has pointed out to the Bush administration that, with formal occupation ending, they are required to... MORE...
  • Shut NASA Down - ...before Bush turns it into a corporate sty for the Halliburton's of the world. Now, we can understand Bush's call... MORE...

    June 14, 2004
  • Thomas: States Can Establish Religion - The Newdow "Pledge of Allegiance" case was dismissed by the majority of the Court on technical standing grounds, but the... MORE...
  • Fraud of 401(k)s - Speaking of social security "reform" and personal accounts, this article in the New York Times highlights why 401(k)s, the model... MORE...
  • Fraud of Social Security "Reform" - Steve at the truly oddly named Deinonychus antirrhopus has a beef with my attacks on social security "reform." He complains... MORE...

    June 12, 2004
  • Welfare for Private Medicare Corps - After the chaos of the "discount" drug card, we are now seeing private Medicare insurers getting their extra subsidies-- quite... MORE...
  • Rush Divorces - So Rush just dumped wife number three. I honestly don't get how conservatives sit around talking about the sanctity of... MORE...

    June 11, 2004
  • ACT for Victory Blog - I'm going to be blogging a lot more about the labor-led Americans Coming Together (ACT) voter mobilization organization, but I... MORE...
  • Reagan Did Control Congress - Atrios objects that Tim Russert got it wrong when he said: RUSSERT: One other political point: The Republicans achieved control... MORE...
  • In Memoriam: Reagan's Victims - It is indeed a solemn day, when we should reflect on the murder and blood on the hands of Ronald... MORE...
  • Red Alert- NLRB Targets Card Check - This is IT- the case every union lawyer and organizer has been waiting for under Bush. Due to disarray at... MORE...

    June 10, 2004
  • Astonishing GOP Meltdown - Atrios caught a remarkable number from the Los Angeles Times poll: in the generic Congressional ballot, Democrats lead Republicans by... MORE...
  • Wal-Mart: Welfare King - Read this report by Good Jobs First, entitled Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never-Ending... MORE...

    June 09, 2004
  • Failures of Reagan- From the Right - This essay, The Myths of Reaganomics, comes from the Mises Institute, a fundamentalist pro-capitalism organization. It highlights the lies of... MORE...
  • If We Do This to Our Guys... - How much more evidence do we need of torture and brutality against prisoners? Check International > Army Now Says G.I.... MORE...

    June 08, 2004
  • Reagan- Irresponsible Debt - As Lloyd Bentsen once said of the Reagan economy, ""You know, if you let me write $200 billion worth of... MORE...

    June 07, 2004
  • Reagan: Enemy of Working People - I just got back from Canada, where the differences between the two major parties seems to amount to whether a... MORE...

    June 03, 2004
  • Rating the Catholic Politicians - Senator Dick Durbin has released a survey of Catholic Senators (pdf) that rates them in three categories: Pro-Life, Domestic Policy... MORE...

    June 02, 2004
  • The Chalabi Spy Scandal - Chalabi was the source of lies about WMDs, the source of lies to the New York Times stoking war fever,... MORE...
  • $2/gal- Just a Taste of Coming Oil Crash - Read this article and be afraid-- and then get angry at the lies being told to the public. The bottom... MORE...

    June 01, 2004
  • Let America Be America Again - This is a brilliant slogan for the Kerry campaign. What this Langston Hughes poem evokes is leftwing patriotism, a concise... 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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