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Undernews: January 9, 2012
Thursday, 12 January 2012, 7:13 pm | Undernews
Barney Frank is right. The Democrats may not be perfect but at least they’re not nuts. The Republican candidates believe that slashing government is a good way to increase jobs. But one of the biggest government budget cuts occurs following wars ... More >>
Undernews: December 14, 2011
Monday, 19 December 2011, 4:42 pm | Undernews
Former New Mexico governor and barely-blipping GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson resurrected the specter of Newt Gingrich’s doobie-dabbling and pot policy on MSNBC this weekend. Here’s Newt’s most recent position, as of 1996, when as Speaker ... More >>
UNDERNEWS: October 20, 2011
Friday, 21 October 2011, 12:59 pm | Undernews
Since history only hangs around these days for six months or so, it is easy not to notice that Republicans don’t act like Republicans anymore nor Democrats like Democrats. Robert Taft, Dwight Eisenhower, or Margaret Chase Smith would be horrified at such ... More >>
UNDERNEWS: October 18, 2011
Friday, 21 October 2011, 11:48 am | Undernews
A record-high 50% of Americans now say the use of marijuana should be made legal, up from 46% last year. Forty-six percent say marijuana use should remain illegal. When Gallup first asked about legalizing marijuana, in 1969, 12% of Americans favored ... More >>
Undernews: October 6, 2011
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 11:10 am | Undernews
Reoccupying America update: Occupy Charlotte; 20,000 gather in NYC; What Cain and Romney think about it; Occupiers a bit more popular than Tea Party, alot more than Congress; 25 arrested in Seattle; Students in 100 colleges walk out in support; NYC ... More >>
Undernews: October 1, 2011
Monday, 3 October 2011, 10:18 am | Undernews
When they telling you that you're rebelling against them in the wrong way, you're winning United Steelworkers support protest List of credit unions for when you're ready to leave your greedy bank Protests spread across the country BBC update Wall ... More >>
UNDERNEWS: September 21, 2011
Monday, 26 September 2011, 5:44 pm | Undernews
Radical Muslims used bombs, planes and small arms to kill and injure Americans; radical Republicans use the budget process. Radical Muslims oppose Christianity; radical Republicans give it a bad reputation. Radical Muslims practice Sharia law; radical ... More >>
UNDERNEWS: September 17, 2011
Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 3:11 pm | Undernews
How the Republicans are out of touch with America Culture Gallup finds that 53% of Americans support same sex marriage 69% oppose eliminating funding for PBS 58% of Americans say legalize marijuana 77% support DADT repeal Economics Poll: Americans ... More >>
Undernews: September 11, 2011
Friday, 16 September 2011, 3:23 pm | Undernews
I headed toward the spot where the towers once stood, passing dazed, ashen and speechless groups of police officers and firefighters. I would pull out a notebook to ask questions and no sounds would come out of their mouths. They forlornly shook their heads and ... More >>
UNDERNEWS: September 3, 2011
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 11:42 am | Undernews
Late this week, President Obama stunned the EPA and environmentalists by dropping plans to tighten Bush-era ozone standards. His logic? Tighter rules would increase the "regulatory burden" that Republicans blame for the crappy economy. More >>
UNDERNEWS: August 26, 2011
Tuesday, 30 August 2011, 2:45 pm | Undernews
“We are not evacuating Rikers Island,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news conference. Bloomberg annouced a host of extreme measures being taken by New York City in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, including a shutdown of the ... More >>
UNDERNEWS: August 22, 2011
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 11:07 am | Undernews
The FCC - acting under pressure from the GOP - has agreed to remove the so-called Fairness Doctrine from its books. As described by Wikipedia, "The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission, introduced in ... More >>
UNDERNEWS: August 16, 2011
Monday, 22 August 2011, 5:18 pm | Undernews
I have been trying to understand the new eternal fundamentals of leadership according to the likes of Michelle Rhee, Arne Duncan and others who see government and non-profits as badly in need of corporate principles. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far. ... More >>
UNDERNEWS: August 10, 2011
Friday, 12 August 2011, 5:34 pm | Undernews
The day before Obama’s inauguration I was in the block next to my old office on Capitol Hill. There were two National Guardsman drinking coffee on the corner. I looked at them with a stroke of undeciphered déjà vu. Then I remembered. The last ... More >>
UNDERNEWS: August 7, 2011
Monday, 8 August 2011, 5:06 pm | Undernews
S&P’s intrusion into American politics is also ironic because much of our current debt is directly or indirectly due to S&P’s failures (along with the failures of the two other major credit-rating agencies ¬ Fitch and Moody’s) to do their jobs ... More >>
Undernews: July 22 2011
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 2:09 pm | Undernews
Percentage of total U.S. debt, according to Business Insider: • Hong Kong: $121.9 billion (0.9 percent) • Caribbean banking centers: $148.3 (1 percent) • Taiwan: $153.4 billion (1.1 percent) • Brazil: $211.4 billion (1.5 percent) • Oil exporting ... More >>
UNDERNEWS: July 16, 2011
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 12:45 pm | Undernews
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has long been a darling of conservative evangelicals, but shortly before announcing her White House bid, she officially quit a church she’d belonged to for years. Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, and ... More >>
Undernews For July 12
Monday, 18 July 2011, 10:28 am | Undernews
Although Obama is currently within about 50 electoral votes of beating most Republican candidates, and even leads his most serious competition – Mitt Romney - by better than two to one, the 2012 race is far from settled. More >>
UNDERNEWS: July 12, 2011
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 6:04 pm | Undernews
Although Obama is currently within about 50 electoral votes of beating most Republican candidates, and even leads his most serious competition – Mitt Romney - by better than two to one, the 2012 race is far from settled. More >>
Undernews: July 8, 2011
Monday, 11 July 2011, 1:45 pm | Undernews
From the moment he took the White House, the President has wanted to cut Social Security benefits. David Brooks reported that three administration officials called him to say Obama “is extremely committed to entitlement reform and is plotting politically ... More >>
