Category Archives: 99 Percent

Video: The Allegory of the Cave

Although the current news is John Boehner and the House GOP caving on the two-month extension of payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits, the major difference between the left and the right has to do with another type of cave, … Continue reading

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‘Bizarre Religious Claims’ Couple Deported

‘Bizarre Religious Claims’ Couple Deported By Walt N. Ponde The Corpus Christi Sun-Journal December 23, 2011 SPECIAL TO THE SUN-JOURNAL — The strange tale of illegal immigrants Jose and Maria Natividad has finally come to an end after a federal … Continue reading

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We Come in Peace…

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Today’s Quote: GOP Willing to Ruin the Economy to Defeat Obama

Imagine if some Democrat, say Sen. Harry Reid, had made a statement like this in 2003 — “The single most important thing we want to achieve is to make President Bush a one-term president”? Rush Limbaugh would still be screaming … Continue reading

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Today’s Quotes: Wall Street

“The richest one percent of this country owns half our country’s wealth, five trillion dollars. [It’s more now.} One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons … Continue reading

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Today’s Quote: Ex-Republican Knows How to Beat the Greedy Old Plutocrats

It’s true, many good progressives don’t know how to frame an idea simply in plain language (some of the sign-makers of OWS could teach them a thing or two), and tend to bury their point in the third paragraph, long … Continue reading

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Cartoons: Crapitalism Illustrated

As anyone who has been paying attention knows (like the fine cartoonists below), we no longer live in a capitalist system, if we ever did. Instead we live in a Bizarro World economy where the failures of the rich are … Continue reading

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The Romney $10K Betting Bill

Heard tell the DNC is putting these things out. Can that be true — the Dems are fighting back with humor instead of hrumphing like Queen Victoria’s elderly maid or wetting themselves in fear? If so, the GOP is in … Continue reading

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Duckworth Will Trounce Loudmouth Nutjob Walsh in 2012

If you don’t know about Teabagger Congressman Rep. Joe Walsh from Illinois, you’re probably better off for it. He’s a more-mouth-than-brains nutcase who screams at his constituents and spouts all sorts of crapola right-wing nonsense. A typical Republican hypocrite, he … Continue reading

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Gingrich Misleading About ‘Janitor’ and Teacher Pay in New York

Set down any hot liquids before I reveal this shocker: Newt Gingrich has been misleading (‘lying’) about the relative pay of NYC teachers and union janitors. As PolitiFact notes, an average first-year teacher makes about 1.4 more than a first-year … Continue reading

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