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The Return Of The Working-Class Hero
E. J. DionneWASHINGTON — For more than three decades, working-class Americans receded as cultural heroes, replaced in the popular imagination by swashbuckling entrepreneurs, brilliant innovators, and shrewd investors who make millions at the touch of a computer key.
It was not always this way.
Lights. Camera. Corruption.
Leonard Pitts Jr.You want to know the worst part?
It isn’t the incident where a police officer stopped a man at the 207 Quickstop convenience store and threw his purchases — cans of Red Bull — to the sidewalk.
It isn’t the incident where an officer stopped a woman outside that Miami Gardens store, pawed through her purse, then emptied the contents onto the ground and kicked at them.
Rand Paul To Detroit: You’re Being Punished Because You Don’t Worship The Rich
@LOLGOPSenator Rand Paul (R-KY) has been reading Jack Kemp’s Wikipedia page.
Kemp — a former congressman, secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 1996 Republican nominee for vice president — was famous for being a conservative Republican intent on reaching out to minority communities. When not one right-wing politician showed up at the 50th anniversary of Dr.
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Top Republican Invokes Detroit To Call For Cuts To Veterans’ Benefits
At least one top Republican is invoking the bankruptcy of Detroit and the rescue of the auto industry to call for cuts to the benefits of military veterans.
“Forty-four cents of every dollar we spend goes to military personnel,” House Armed Services Committee chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) told Politico.
The Return Of The Working-Class Hero
WASHINGTON — For more than three decades, working-class Americans receded as cultural heroes, replaced in the popular imagination by swashbuckling entrepreneurs, brilliant innovators, and shrewd investors who make millions at the touch of a computer key.
It was not always this way.
Forgiveness At Heart Of Mandela Legacy
Every once in a very great while, we get these people who rise above the confines of self. Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday at the age of 95, was one of those. He navigated his life by the polestar not of self, but of freedom and in so doing, became the founding father of a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal.
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Lights. Camera. Corruption.
You want to know the worst part?
It isn’t the incident where a police officer stopped a man at the 207 Quickstop convenience store and threw his purchases — cans of Red Bull — to the sidewalk.
It isn’t the incident where an officer stopped a woman outside that Miami Gardens store, pawed through her purse, then emptied the contents onto the ground and kicked at them.
WATCH: Rand Paul Says We Must Hurt The Long-Term Unemployed To Help Them
After President Obama used his weekly address to call on Congress to extend unemployment insurance for the 1.3 million Americans — including 20,000 veterans — who have been out of work for more than 26 weeks, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) offered the counterpoint on Fox News Sunday.
“I do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks that they’re paid for.
Rand Paul To Detroit: You’re Being Punished Because You Don’t Worship The Rich
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has been reading Jack Kemp’s Wikipedia page.
Kemp — a former congressman, secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 1996 Republican nominee for vice president — was famous for being a conservative Republican intent on reaching out to minority communities. When not one right-wing politician showed up at the 50th anniversary of Dr.
Pope’s Critique Of Capitalism Raises Ire On The Right
If the United States has a state religion, it’s capitalism.
That hasn’t always been so, but few adults under the age of 60 would know that Ayn Rand was once reviled by believers, that the working poor were once seen as honorable folk, and that churchgoing Christians did not always believe it their duty to defend the ways of Big Business. Indeed, there was once a time when even the U.S.
This Week In Crazy: Rick Santorum Is A Non-Communist Nelson Mandela, And The Rest Of The Worst Of The Right
Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the wildest attacks, conspiracy theories, and other loony behavior from the increasingly unhinged right wing.
Read more...Weekend Reader: The New Democrats And The Return To Power
Today the Weekend Reader bring you The New Democrats and the Return to Power by Al From, founder of the Democratic Leadership Council. The New Democrats and the Return to Power features From’s guidelines to reforming the Democratic Party back to the Clinton era.
Read more...Book-Cooking Bank Gets To Keep Its Books Cooked
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) — Here’s a not-so-comforting lesson for investors, courtesy of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Just because the SEC says a company’s earnings were fraudulent doesn’t mean the company will ever be required to correct them.
The SEC this week accused Fifth Third Bancorp of committing accounting fraud during the height of the 2008 financial crisis.
‘The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday’: Journalist Enters World Of Low-Paid Temp Workers In Southern California’s Warehouses
Journalist Gabriel Thompson’s “Holiday Crush,” first published by the Investigative Fund in conjunction with The Nation, exposes the world of seasonal workers working in California’s Inland Empire — an industrialized area packed with warehouses that hire temporary workers during the holiday season.
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