Monthly Archives: October 2010

At The Rally To Restore Sanity

October 30, 2010 words by Jon Stewart And now I thought we might have a moment, however brief, for some sincerity. If that’s okay – I know that there are boundaries for a comedian / pundit / talker guy, and … Continue reading

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It’s the Stupidity, Stupid

Posted on Oct 28, 2010 By David Sirota Redistributionist—as epithets go, the moniker is so mild, so … 2008. Today, we’re hammered by screeds against Democrats’ alleged socialism and President Barack Obama’s supposed Marxism. The class war is clearly on—the paranoids and … Continue reading

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Johann Hari: The real reason Obama has let us all down

On the night he won, I too shed a little tear; but the people weeping today are those having their homes repossessed Is Barack Obama a politician whose actions should be judged soberly, or a figure from a feel-good fairytale … Continue reading

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Can’t Keep a Bad Idea Down

October 27, 2010 by: Tom Friedman I confess, I find it dispiriting to read the polls and see candidates, mostly Republicans, leading in various midterm races while promoting many of the very same ideas that got us into this mess. … Continue reading

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The Election That Wasn’t

October 23, 2010 by Tom Friedman In the past two weeks, I’ve taken the Amtrak Acela to the Philadelphia and New York stations. In both places there were signs on the train platforms boasting that new construction work there was … Continue reading

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What Happened to Change We Can Believe In?

By FRANK RICH: October 23, 2010 PRESIDENT Obama, the Rodney Dangerfield of 2010, gets no respect for averting another Great Depression, for saving 3.3 million jobs with stimulus spending, or for salvaging GM and Chrysler from the junkyard. And none … Continue reading

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The Wars That America Forgot About

October 17, 2010 by Tom Brokaw IN what promises to be the most contentious midterm election since 1994, there is no shortage of passion about big issues facing the country: the place and nature of the federal government in America’s … Continue reading

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Dylan Ratigan Blasts Bill O’Reilly “War On Islam”.

First Posted: 10-15-10 02:51 PM    Dylan Ratigan let loose on Friday’s “Morning Joe” with a highly impassioned monologue about what he saw as the widespread failure in America to distinguish between the small group of people who carried out the … Continue reading

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The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America

By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus Report ——-I: Casualties of Economic Terrorism, Surveying the Damage ——-II: The Rise of the Economic Elite ——-III: Exposing Our Enemy: Meet the Economic Elite ——-IV: The Financial Coup d’Etat ——-V: Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy … Continue reading

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Invasion of the Robot Home Snatchers

Posted on Oct 13, 2010 By Robert Scheer The Titanic that is the U.S. housing market has just sprung its biggest leak, and even some of the largest banks responsible for this mess, like Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, are now … Continue reading

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