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  • Conservatism Collapses in the Emergency Room

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    A column I\’ve just posted on Firedog Lake takes Sen. John McCain and the Bush administration to task for failing to address one of the most critical failings of our health care system: our overstressed urban hospitals. It was one of the elephants in the room when McCain rolled out his health care plan last…

  • Let\’s Bank On Rebuilding America

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    Instead of a silly argument over a \”gas tax holiday,\” we desperately need a serious discussion about the nation\’s infrastructure. And there is a good legislative proposal that could be the basis for that discussion. There are bills in the House (HR 3401) and the Senate (S 1926) that would create a national infrastructure bank.…

  • The Time for Inaction Tour

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    The conservative war against the war on poverty continues today as Arizona Sen. John McCain goes to the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. From what we\’ve seen so far, McCain is coming to the still-devastated city with nothing that will actually address the compounded conservative failures of not protecting the city from the flood and…

  • Let\’s Get Real Economic Stimulus

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    It\’s now more clear than ever that the so-called economic stimulus package Congress passed earlier this year is inadequate. It is now time to demand that Congress get to work on finishing the job by passing a second economic stimulus package in the coming weeks—and do it on its own merits, without falling into the…

  • Cancerous Conservatism Debilitates Workers

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    Perhaps the ultimate workplace expression of conservative \”you\’re-on-your-own\” ideology is FedEx Ground, where all of the workers who deliver packages are not FedEx employees but are independent contractors. FedEx sells that as \”the ability to grow your own business.\” But for Jean Capobianco, a FedEx contractor who was the subject of a profile in Sunday\’s…

  • Push for Workers\’ Rights

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  • Bitter? Of Course. Here\’s Why

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    Honest discussion about the roots of working-class angst and how to address it has gotten seriously burned in the firestorm of controversy fanned around comments by Sen. Barack Obama that working-class people are \”bitter\” about the economy and government. However poorly phrased his original comments were, they were based on a fundamental truth: that conservatism,…

  • Forty Years Later, Still Far From the Mountaintop

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    “You know, Jesus reminded us in a magnificent parable one day that a man went to hell because he didn\’t see the poor. … And I come by here to say that America, too, is going to hell, if we don\’t use her wealth. If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to…

  • Pat Buchanan\’s Racist Rant

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    MSNBC has another Imus problem, and his name is Pat Buchanan. In fact, the racist drivel that Buchanan has recently penned (posted on Human Events, among other places) is arguably more offensive than the insult Don Imus thoughtlessly tossed at the Rutgers University women\’s basketball team, which eventually led to the simulcast of his syndicated…

  • Merci, John McCain, for Killing American Jobs

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    The Campaign for America’s Future has released a 30-second video that mocks Sen. John McCain’s involvement in an Air Force tanker contract that, as a result of McCain’s intervention, has gone to the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), the parent company of Airbus, instead of American-based competitor Boeing. It coincides with a trip…