Pew: Obama’s Ratings Little Affected by Recent Turmoil Since the beginning of this year, President Obama has signed a controversial health care measure, coped with a stubbornly high jobless rate, and struggled to manage the largest environmental disaster in the nation’s history. In that period, Obama’s overall job approval rating has moved from 49% to […]

Day after day we watch the video. Horrifying. We didn’t think this could happen because the oil industry has been telling us their operations were safe — even in the most dangerous or sensitive environments. Clearly, they told us wrong. We must demand that Washington turn this tragedy into the catalyst that finally brings us […]

  By GARY SCHARRER AUSTIN BUREAU June 20, 2010, 11:44PM AUSTIN — The demographer who warned a decade ago about Texas’ unhappy mix of dismal education achievement and high poverty is more concerned than ever. Actually, he’s frightened. Also getting restless are growing numbers of Texas business executives. Some don’t see much leadership from politicians […]

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Excellent iReport by my friend and fellow iReporter Cliff Olney on our current economic Depression. His words should be heeded by politicians. The discontent in our nation is not publicly visible or covered in the press. The Tea Party, a mostly (but not entirely as some are my friends with genuine concerns) group of mal-educated […]

As Americans figure out that they were summarily lied to during the healthcare debate those lying will likely pay at the ballot box. I am happy that this awareness seem to be coming earlier rather than later. As such we are likely to keep a progressive government that hopefully can mitigate the failure of the […]

Chris Matthews: ‘Rise Of The New Right’ Special should not scare liberals, it should embolden them. It should make us understand that we have a job to do. The corporatists that controls all aspects of the media have dispatched an echo chamber with a well oiled and tested message that appeals to peoples’ carnal fears. […]

I have been asking for the real Republicans to show up and enter the debate. After all, had it not been for the progressive Republicans’ ground braking legislation like the Civil Rights bill would not have been passed. For too long the GOP has allowed the Dixiecrats (ex-Democrats) to govern their party with the same […]

Carly Fiorina believe in the same free trade US labor outsourcing philosophy as most supply side economic ideologues. This has decimated our manufacturing base. We need leaders who believe in creating an environment where US manufacturing is cultivated and outsourcing is discouraged.

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