"How to fix the Fed:  Dismiss Dimon, boot the bankers, and can the corporations"

Mass voter disenfranchisment: a GOP speciality for decades

Multi-millionaire DINO "Nancy Pelosi's pre-emptive cave on Bush-Obama tax cuts"

"It may be to a lesser extent than the Republican candidate, but the US president is a frontman for financial interests"

"Romney's regressivism"

"Montreal's students defy restrictions as demonstration grow"

"Iran and Europe: 'til death do us part"

That the DINOs are in control of the Democratic Party is obvious. That DINO elected officials in Washington are controlled by Wall Street is also obvious. DINOs are only marginally better than their GOP corporatist colleagues and often just as bad---two versions of the same destructive philosophy......government of, by, and for the wealthy few. << MORE >>

Facebook IPO difficulties consequences of the insanity "Congress and the Presidentperpetuated by signing the JOBS Act."

"How Obama helped authorize Shell's drilling the Arctic"

"GOP and Dems perform the Bain hustle"

"On military budgets and spiritual death"

"The administration takes a break from its war on whiistleblowers to provide classified information to filmmakers"

"Management----bad management----crippled the auto industry's Big Three, not the UAW"

"Obama officials demand full, reform-free renewal of controversial power to eavesdrop without warrants"

That revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street just keeps spinning non-stop. The reality of how Washington works in this fashion is both informative and repugnant.<< MORE >>

Anti-women GOP Women's Caucus.....more GOP hypocrisy

".....over-consumption and rampant pollution was threatening the world's ocean and marine biodiversity"  and "......an epitaph for Planet Earth"

"War pay or the nearly $1 trillions national security budget"

"10 reasons to be suspicious about Wall Street's Facebook fiasco"

"American workers: Shackled to labor law"

There's an old adage: "you are what you eat". But what if you don't really know what your eating???? For example, meat glue may be in your steak, but it doesn't appear on the menu. What is meat glue?<< MORE >>

"Top Obama officials, secretive process create 'assassination list' "

"Snarling banker"

How Congress works...Former JP Morgan Chase lobbyists will be running the Senate Banking Committee's investigations of JPMorgan Chase's up to $7 billion fail whale trade

"Fired up? Ready to go (electrocute people)!

"Catholic institutions sue government over contraception mandate"

"90% of corn seeds coated with Bayer's bee-decimating pesticide"

The deficit is not on regular Americans' radar. What concerns them is the economy and jobs<< MORE >>

"......Break up the big banks now.  Here's how."

"The waltz of the zombie banks"

"101 people sentenced to die were later exonerated"

"Nato talks security and peace, Chicago has neither

"War and cheeseburgers"

"Nato summit leaders should have been forced to watch the moving protest of the former troops chucking their medals away."

"The commencement address that won't be given"

The Democratic Party of the 21st century has become a bastion of phony Democratic elected officials who have hoodwinked the Democratic voter base whom they have betrayed in favor of their Wall Street masters.

Glenn Greenwald at Salon has done an excellent job exposing the DINO destruction of the Democratic Party with his commentary, "Democrats and Bain" and captures that ruinous change with the following excerpt: << MORE >>

"NATO occupies sweet home Chicago"

"Senate Banking chair calls Jamie Dimon to testify: But JPMorganChase is his biggest contributor"

"A new politics that rejects austerity and the whims of war"

"Will Schumer propose a 35% tax rate on capital gains and other tax avoidance schemes?"

Catching up with the rest of the true Democrats: Krugman on Romney 

"Obama's poverty-relieving plan for Africa a profit boon for giant agribusiness"

Very occasionally, the Department of Justice recognizes unconstitutionality when it is pointed out by regular Americans after many egregious incidents.<< MORE >>

"NDAA's 'indefinite detentions' provision' unconstitutional, says judge"

"Another Koch-funded stealth campaign": discrediting climate teaching.

"Behind locked capitol doors, in an almost clandestine operation, Missouri Republicans honor Limbaugh"

"Obama can't knock the hustle" and  "The dog that didn't bark: Obama on JP Morgan"

"Those 'flying coffin' F-22 Raptor duds"

"Bill Clinton, Boehner, and some other rich white guys had a 'summit' and agreed: " "It's all your fault' "

"Greeks to face month of Eurozone 'fear mongering' to swallow austerity" 

Anti-women's rights...."Pharmacists in Kansas can now deny women access to birth control" 

Any union member voting for Romney is nuts.

"Obama's new free speech threat"

Are there any 21st century New Deal Democrats holding office or just millionaire DINO Wall Street corporatist hacks spewing GOP lite? Let's see, some of the Dem base thought Eric Schneiderman was in the first category.<< MORE >>

"Why Jamie Dimon's $2 billion gambling loss will NOT speed financial reform"

"....Dimon, the Whale Man, and Glass-Steagall"

"Financial Regulation: Don't get your hopes up"

"The human disaster of unemployment"

And so it continues across the country in countless election.....overheated paper ballot op-scan counters mis-tally 70% of votes.  Wow! Just in time for 2012 presidential elections.

"The GOP's dead end path to prosperity"

"US arms sale to Bahrain sends wrong signal, groups say"

"Are virus powered cell phone around the corner?" and what about "bacteria powered magnets and the bio-computer era"?

The Wall Street casino privatizes wins aka profits and socializes losses (government aka taxpayer bailouts), aided and abetted by Wall Street's puppets, the anti-regulatory GOP and DINO elected officials.<< MORE >>

"Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase: Why its the scandal of our time"

"Must we stand idly by while world leaders spout this codswallop"

"Five facts that put America to shame"

"America as a shining drone upon a hill"

"Business insider CEO: 'Wall Street is just a bunch of kids playing with dynamite' "

I love the English word, "codswallop". Just the sound tells you it's something yucky and a wonderful description for hypocritical hogwash. It also perfectly describes Colin Powell's claim in his recent book that he didn't know that his 2003 accusations of Iraq's possession of WMDs to the UN were lies.

Yet, the Very Serious People continue to trot him out as an example of a GOP man of integrity, which speaks volumes about him and them.<< MORE >>

"JP Morgan's $2 billion tumble renews call: Break up the big banks"  and also the case for resurrecting Glass-Steagall

"Will Democrats embrace 'Austerity American style?  Crash this party and find out"

"Chicago police ready for NATO summit protestors with 'sound cannon' " but "despite Rahm Emanuel's best efforts, there will be protest"

"Child labor and Agribusiness churn Washington's food fight"

"Should we simply say that any exports -- no matter their moral, ethical, environmental or health implications -- are inherently good?"

Bipartisanship is dying and shouldn't be mourned"

"Despite marriage equality shift, Obama still won't sign LGBT anti-discrimination executive order"

"We're fighting in a war we lost, before the war began"

"US military taught officers:  'Hiroshima' tactics for 'total war' on Islam"

"Holding Bank of America to account"????  however, ".....how that bank silenced a whole town"

"Wall Street's immunity"

Republicans promote, protect and defend a government of, by, and for the wealthy few and corporations. Tax cuts or no taxes for the rich. Everyone else: you're on your own. It's a GOP Alice in Wonderland where up is down, lies are facts, illogic is logic....you get the picture.<< MORE >>

House Repugs want to "trim the fat.....like feeding poor kids and senior to protect military spending from automatic cuts"

"Making chemical giants happy at our expense"

"Showdown in Charlotte" with protests outside and inside BofA shareholders' meeting, andactivists want DNC convention moved out of NC?

"They never intended to share it"

"DC Democrats upset that Feingold called out Pelosi game of footsie with Bowles-Simpson"and exposes the hypocrisy of the Progressive Caucus.

If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck......."ALEC says it's not a lobbying group as some state quietly exempt it from lobbying rules"

Local Virginia Republican Party right wing nut suggests armed insurrection if Obama wins re-election

The deficit scam has been perpetrated by the Republicans, aided and abetted by DINOs in the White House and on Capitol Hill in order to protect and further enrich the wealthy few and corporations while causing economic harm and suffering for regular people.<< MORE >>

"Social Security is not going broke"

"On both sides of the Atlantic, the social ties that bind our political, legal and corporate forces lie exposed"

"How dare the French and the Greeks reject a failed strategy!"

"Sarkozy's footsteps: Will the Democrats be next?"

"New schemes hold the public hostage to private finance"

"Wall Street's speed freaks"

"A sham for Wal-Mart's scam"

Continuing to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan

"There is a plague upon our land"

"The so-called 'recovery' isn't working for working people"

"The stall has arrived"

"More federal judge abdication; a craven subservience to Executive branch security claims"

"Volunteerism or exploitation?  Labor Department's 'Bridge to Work' program rankles some"

"New study refutes claims that tasers are 'non-lethal' "

"AZ review shows private prisons cost more.  So legislature ends the study"

"....new survey showing Virginians have a very low opinion of Eric Cantor (VA-07)"

Just how blatantly can this DINO administration show that it is illogical, anti-common sense, anti-common good, and GOP lite? How much more conspicuously can it dance to the tune of its corporate masters?

Well, the following is a another prime example.<< MORE >>

"Why Obama is not ending the war in Afghanistan"

"Media gets bored with Occupy----and inequality"

"Why we must 'follow the money' of 2012's political ad spend"

"High cost of health care: US spending 'dwarfs' other countries'

"The slickest stunt at SeaWorld"

"ALEC's top five anti-environment 'model' laws"

"The recovery is really good at creating bad jobs"

"Bribery as a business model"

"13 workers killed each day on the job in 2010 (the most recent for which data are available)"

"New study predicts frack fluids can migrate to aquifers within years"

"How can you tell a really smart rich guy from a really silly one? The really smart one would never spend four years writing a book that tries to justify the incredible riches of incredibly rich people."

So, US troops will now stay in Afghanistan for another decade plus says the president in a midnight meeting with Karzai in Kabul.<< MORE >>

"Mayday, Mayday, Mayday"

"Budgets: the ultimate lie-detector"

"....Obama's assassination of al-Qaida's leader has not altered a US default of being mired in disastrous foreign wars

"Why are we striking? Or to put it another way---What's wrong with the world?"

"Bread, Circuses and the Edwards prosecution"

"Latin America delivers a swift kick"

"May Day protests across the globe"

Restoring May Day in the United States.....a timely history lesson about the struggles of workers.

It's a history that resonates today in this country of egregious economic inequality, continuing unemployment hardships for so many, stagnant wages for the majority versus massive wealth for the 1%, a plutocratic, corporate controlled government of, by, and for the wealthy few.

Instead of fairness, real justice, and true equality thanks to a 21st century New Deal, regular Americans struggle to survive in a 21st century Gilded Age of the disgustingly rich few, increasing poverty for many, and a disappearing middle class.<< MORE >>

"The 'Arizonafication' of the US immigration debate"

"Postal workers unions continue fight to stop massive USPS cutbacks"

"Facebook lobbies Washington to 'Like' spying on users"

"What foreign corporations will Obama empower to undermine environmental law near you?"

"The politics of sight"

"The legacy of Chernobyl"

"The meaning of 'austerity measures' in Eurospeak"

"Marco Rubio, GOP veepstaker, another flip-flopping Pinocchio"

What you get with a DINO administration and DINOs on Capitol Hill is GOP lite. It's helping destroy the common good. And we are asked to re-elect this DINO president, despite his betrayals of that common good, because the GOP alternative would be a disaster. That's damning with faint praise, indeed.<< MORE >>

"Is your candidate for higher office 'politically insane?  Five telltale signs."

"The key to reviving U.S. workers’ fortunes may be as simple as amending the Civil Rights Act".

"The NSA, which dwarfs the CIA, is so powerful that those with oversight are too intimidated to check its incursions on liberty"

"Halfway through the lost decade"

"Relax, it's just a run-of-the-mill nuke spill"

"America's mad cow crisis"

"Washington Capitals win over Boston Bruins spurs spasm of racism"

During the Bush administration, many of us thought we were living in an Orwellian nightmare. However, under this DINO administration, the Owellian environment has been strengthened with a mixture of Alice in Wonderland. << MORE >>

"Two Blue Dogs defeated in Pennsylvania primaries"

"The DCCC....not a friend of working families"

"Romney's economic fix and the inequity of private-equity hustlers"

"Crime boasting for profit"

"Unorthodox exception or preferential treatment?  Brooklyn DA refuses to release names of orthodox Jews accused of child abuse"

"Mad cow disease case in US was a 'one-off' caused by a mutation"

"Social Security and Medicare: Myth vs. Fact" and Experts: Contrary to mainstream myth, Social Security is strong and could be made stronger"

"Why does OSHA move at a glacial pace?"

"Nestle's new deal is deja vu: profits trumping public health"

Wal-Mart's huge Mexico bribery scandal fallout

"The lesson for Obama of Europe's failed austerity"

"Labor action and inaction in Colombia Free Trade Deal"

Transparency and accountability are supposed to be some of the hallmarks of this democratic country. Unfortunately, it is suppression and secrecy that seem to be dominant, trumping the constitutional rights that were once valued. What's even more Orwellian is that it's happening under a president and his administration and its supporters who criticized Bush for trampling on the Constitution.<< MORE >>

"Five reasons why the very rich have not earned their money"

"Social Security and Medicare: the number behind the spin"

"Surveillance state evils"

"Shareholders say no on Citigroup CEO pay"

"Our brave new service economy"

"Obama edits out climate change from his Earth Day proclamation"

You can't make this stuff up. The spring meeting of the IMF and the finance ministers of its member nations is a gathering of incompetents, these elite nitwits complimenting each other even though each is stark naked like the emperor.<< MORE >>

"The unlearned lessons of the BP oil spill or corporations can't be trusted to police themselves"

"Helmsley and the 'Little People' "

"Ann Romney, working woman?"

"Two USA Today journalists hit by smear campaign after their Pentagon propaganda story"

"33 corporations that paid no taxes from 2008-2010 have ties to ALEC 

"The Encyclical against cooties"

"Obama's policies: the real scandal in Cartagena"

"EPA rules on fracking leave public health, communities at risk"

"OSHA fines company $400,000 for (13 safety violations) grain dust explosion that killed 6.....but where are the criminal prosecutions?."

"BP toxic legacy: a hidden health crisis festers and marine life deformities in the Gulf, as well as deteriorating ecosystems, collapsed fisheries" 

"America's drone sickness"

"Vatican smacks down American nuns for daring to care about poor people"

"Tactics and principle as French near vote"

The hypocrisy of the Obama administration is a wonder to behold because it's so egregious and omnipresent. But then, what else can you expect from a bunch of DINOs.

Here's another pathetic item in the long list of its DINO policies and actions that espouse this administration's mantra of "well said better than well done" again betraying the common good.<< MORE >>

"The Citizens United gang executes a corporate coup d'etat"

"A president who doesn't even try"

"Obama's announces empty crackdown on oil speculation"

"Union activists are being murdered"

"How 'centrist' Democrats are helping conservatives----and failing America's moms"

"Time to undo ALEC's damage"

"For those doubters, [Tom] Friedman provides conclusive proof that he deserved the award of Atios' One True Wanker of the Decade"

A sickening proto-fascist exhibition of riot police trying to intimidate peaceful protestors from exercising their constitutional rights

"Obama's atomic Solyndra"

"Argentina's critics wrong again about renationalizing oil"

Anti-common good and government of, by, and for the wealthy few are the "values" that Republicans espouse, promote, and intend to inflict on struggling regular people in this country. And the garbage that spews from a Republican controlled House of Representatives in Congress is ongoing proof of that.<< MORE >>

"Yes, Virginia, this is Obama's JOBS Act"

"The war on public sector workers"

"Why a fair economy is not incompatible to growth but essential to it"

"Pothole nation"

"Trumka says the White House announcement about the Colombia Trade Pact is "disappointing and troubling". Why did you bother to endorse Obama so quickly given his insulting track record regarding labor?

"The wonderful world of estate planning for the super wealthy......Romneys were able to give sons $100 million tax free"
"In Arizona, life somehow begins two weeks before conception...."

The hypocrisy surrounding the manufactured stay-at-home moms controversy; also hereand here.

"Jim Yong Kim chosen as World Bank president amid protests"; meanwhile, "Group to World Bank: Stop funding water privatization"

A slap on the wrist for a felony:  "the latest SEC/Goldman-Sachs sweetheart deal is the worst one yet"

"Snarling banker"

"Stop the nuclear industry welfare programme"

"The great white mancave"

"How Occupy co-opted Moveon.org"

"Chris Christie: The heartless, smug, bullying embodiment of the Republican Party"

"Six weeks after he shot Trayvon Martin, the state of Florida has been under pressure to at least contemplate that George Zimmerman at least has a case to answer"

Why the surprise?  "Trumka 'personally outraged' by Obama backed JOBS Act"

Howard Dean, lobbying without disclosure for three years, advises corporate health care clients to 'fund both sides' run attack ads

"Congress has opened US airspace to the drone industry....."

"A pathetic moment for Obama to show executive restraint"

Talk about corporate greed! In 16 states it's apparently enabled by those states' governments.<< MORE >>