The Senate convenes again today where they plan to resume consideration of The Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010 (H.R. 4853). Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has scheduled a procedural vote for 3 p.m. today to move forward on the measure, which includes an extension of unemployment benefits for the next 13 months…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
E-Mails Show Fox News Drives Radical Right Agenda
Reports that a Fox News editor directed his staff to use a politically charged phrase recommended by a Republican pollster to misrepresent the Democrats’ health care reform plan is proof that Fox is driving a radical right-wing political agenda, says Ethan Rome, executive director of Health Care for America Now, a grassroots coalition that includes…
The Delusion of God and the Virus of Religion
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the Dark Ages. Guest Column by Gordy Slack Richard Dawkins is the world’s most famous out-of-the-closet living atheist. He is also the world’s most controversial evolutionary biologist. Publication of his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene,…
First Snow of the Season Hits Middle Alabamaland
The national weather forecast calls for cloudy skies in central Alabama on Sunday, with a chance of snow flurries in the morning, the afternoon and overnight. The cold wind is blowing in out of the west at 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. The chance of snow for Sunday night is…
WikiLeaks Lawyers Prepare for US Spying Indictment
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the man behind the publication of more than a 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables, could face spying charges in the U.S. related to the Espionage Act, Assange’s lawyer said on ABC News. “Our position of course is that we don’t believe it applies to Mr. Assange and that in any event…
Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory Show Claims Gulf Oil Blowout Planned
More Shock Capitalism? Part 2 We report. You decide.
House Democrats Reject Tax Cut Compromise
Reid Introduces Senate Bill Friday, but Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont Filibusters The Senate has begun debate on the tax cuts and unemployment benefits deal Friday morning after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spent eight hours on the Senate floor railing against the compromise and vowed to filibuster the bill. “I am simply here today to…
Endangered Whooping Cranes Fly Into Georgia
OperationMigration.Org Thirteen whooping cranes follow an ultra-light through West Jefferson County two years ago as they passed over Alabama Power’s Miller Steam Plant on the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River Ten young whooping cranes have completed three quarters of their migration from Wisconsin to Florida. They flew into Georgia from Alabama Thursday and…
Just How Dangerous is WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange?
To Catch a Somewhat Pasty Predator The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook Julian Assange: The Whitemare Hero or villain, the only thing that can be said for sure about Julian Assange is that he lacks a certain amount of melanin.
Senator Bernie Sanders to Lead Opposition to Tax Cut Deal
Strange Bedfellows: Socialist Senator Joined by Tea Party Representatives Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The Christmas Tax Fight Continues Vice President Biden Tells House Democrats the Tax Cut Deal is Set in Stone? Who’s Right: Obama or the ‘Base’?
How Do You Cut Taxes and Reduce the Deficit?
Short Answer: You Can’t The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook Daily Show: Oliver – Supercuts John Oliver explains that the wealth from the Bush tax cuts will trickle down like a golden stream of oddly hot champagne.
Tax Cut Deal Rewards Republican Obstructionism
Two years ago, working Americans had high hopes that we would ultimately emerge from the deep, punishing financial debacle with a sharp focus on a fundamentally stronger, fairer and more balanced economy. Today, that vision has dimmed, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement responding to the tax cut deal reached between President Obama…
Progressives Fume Over Obama-GOP Compromise on Tax Cuts
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Fight or flight?
Should President Obama Seek Reelection in 2012?
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson The question has come up in a serious forum in recent days — and no I’m not talking about Fox News here — on whether President Obama should seek a second term, based on whether he could do more for the country in the next two years by removing…
President Obama Approval Rating Holding Steady Since Midterms
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has held steady in the mid-40s since the midterm elections in November. His average rating for the week leading up to the midterms was 45 percent, where it has remained until the week of Nov. 29-Dec. 5, then it moved one notch to 46 percent. The most recent weekly…
Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Critical Habitat Designation for Vermilion Darter
Glynn Wilson Turkey Creek Falls on an autumn day The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated 13 miles of Turkey Creek on Tuesday as critical habitat for the endangered Vermilion darter, a tiny, multi-colored fish found only in Jefferson County, Alabama. The darter’s critical habitat area includes five streams near Pinson, in Turkey Creek and…
Democrats Cave on Fighting GOP to Let Bush’s Tax Cuts for the Rich Expire
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Nevermind…
President Obama Addresses the Nation on Tax Cuts, Unemployment Benefits
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Public Should Demand an Investigation of Karl Rove
Secret Corporate Campaign Cash Subverts American Democracy When Karl Rove learned he’d be able to channel unlimited corporate money into the 2010 elections, he must have felt like a kid in a candy store. But apparently this wasn’t enough — he’s taken advantage of tax-exempt non-profit laws to funnel tens of millions of dollars into…
We Are the Enemy Now
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson We are the enemy now (sung to the tune of “Your in the Army Now”). Come on boys and girls. Somebody write the song. Come on cartoonists. Draw our demise. Walt Kelly drew a good one for the first Earth Day in 1971, including that now famous line: “We…
