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Stocks Are Down! Obama's Unpopular! Who Cares?
ColorLines editor Kai Wright writes in his blog that the real crisis in America is about people scraping money together for survival day to day, not the political horserace portrayed by officials and the fourth estate. Labor Day weekend began with a familiar whimper: The economy created exactly zero jobs in August. There’s not much…
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HIV Rates Rise in Black Gay and Bisexual Men
ColorLines editor Kai Wright writes in his blog that while alarming, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent report about the rise in HIV infections among men who have sex with men was not unexpected. Young black gay and bisexual men are the only population in the U.S. in which the pace of HIV’s…
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Obama’s Spending Freeze Flip-Flop
It lasted a week. A week of President Obama starting to sound like the brave leader millions of Americans elected. And then we got to the policy part. Clearly, his opening bid for next year’s budget is designed to prove he’s more of a deficit hawk than Republicans. The administration’s upcoming budget, which the president…
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Is Consumer Protection the Public Option of Finance Reform?
The political world’s atwitter speculating about what the Democratic debacle in Massachusetts will mean for health insurance reform. But the rapidly diminishing fortunes of the Senate Democrats are already evident in a quieter, yet equally consequential policy debate: Whether—and how—Washington will ensure that Joe the Consumer gets a fair shake from the big banks. The…
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Rush Limbaugh and Pat Roberston Make Vile Remarks on Helping Haiti
Sure, it was predictable that the right’s most venomous voices would find a way to turn America’s desire to help Haiti into something dark. But you’d think these guys would at least wait a day before starting to spew their bile. Nope. Pat Robertson has declared that Haiti brought the destruction on itself by, well,…
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Glenn Beck's Worst Nightmare: An America Without Minorities
There are no “minority” races in the public school systems of America’s Southern and Western states. Literally. A new study, released last week and reported in the New York Times, reveals that white students are no longer a demographic majority in the 15 states of Dixie. The same has been true in the West since…
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Moralist Karl Rove Gets Second Divorce
Karl Rove’s gotten his second divorce. That ought to be his private business, to be sure. Except, once again, here’s a person who has made it his public business to police every body else’s relationships. So, I welcome a thorough, detailed examination of every aspect of Rove’s private life. Starting with his hypocrisy. Salon’s Glenn…
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The Boomers Broke It; Can Gen X-ers Fix It?
If the 21st century’s opening decade has revealed anything about American life, it’s this: We’re a nation that’s much better at breaking things than fixing them. We opened the epoch by thrashing about the globe, looking for something to smash in reaction to 9/11. We’ve closed it by wallowing in the inevitable wreckage of our…
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Reform Movement Socks It to Lieberman (Video)
A MoveOn parody of the Senate Democrats’ lame response to Joe Lieberman’s antics about says it all… And if you’re forgetting how direly all of this matters to black America, by the way, here’s a reminder. But for all the anger around Lieberman, the fault lies in the White House. Many of us have criticized…
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Joe Wants to Filibuster. Why Not Let Him?
[Scroll down for update] Here we go again. In case you somehow missed it: Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman has decided he’d rather be a spoiler than a reformer. He’s declared he’ll filibuster any health reform bill that includes an expansion of Medicare to cover people as young as 55, despite the fact that he supported…
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