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Does Holding Banks Accountable Count as “Terrorism”? Glenn Beck Thinks it Does.
This weekend, the New York Times told the story of a man named Charlie Engle who is in jail for being sold a bad loan. Engle did commit a crime by signing a so-called “liar loan,” in which he falsely...
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‘Odd Alliance’ Between the Tea Party and the Corporate Lobby? Maybe, But It’s...
The New York Times today reports on what it calls the “odd alliance” between populist-seeming Tea Party groups and corporate lobbyists. The paper’s investigation into a Tea Party group’s all-out...
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Supreme Court Seems Likely to Throw Out Global Warming Case
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a high-profile global-warming case: American Electric Power v. Connecticut. At issue is whether and how courts can hold corporate polluters accountable...
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Tea Party Bemoans “Government-Corporate Cronyism” … Really???
Tea Party groups have been busy protesting companies that support eco-friendly and other progressive policies or help Democrats… they’ve even been protesting GE, NOT because the company exploits...
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Issa Deregulates While the Troops Get Evicted
“Support our troops!” rings the familiar battle cry of many Republicans in Congress. However, a new post by Courage Campaign calls attention to how, when talking about supporting the troops, they...
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Pandering for the Primaries, Pawlenty Tacks Right
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty officially launched his presidential campaign today in Iowa. Although he has been campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire for a couple of years now, you may not...
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Americans Support Tax Increases
We know the Republican view on taxes. In Minnesota, the government has shut down over Republican refusal to raise taxes on the fewer than 8,000 people making over $1 million. On the national level,...
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Pawlenty Brags about Former Minnesota Government Shutdown; Hopes we Forget...
Former Minnesota governor and GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is trying to deflect criticism of his role in Minnesota’s current government shutdown by touting is role in a previous...
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Warren faces Issa one more time before launch of Consumer Financial...
Elizabeth Warren appeared before the House Oversight Committee yet one more time on Wednesday – her third trip to the Committee – in advance of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) launch...
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Republican Obstructionism Knows No Bounds
We’ve seen Republican Obstructionism at work against our federal judicial system, as Sen. Mitch McConnell and his cohorts have blocked many exceptionally-qualified, mainstream jurists from receiving an...
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Darrell Issa's Two Hats
Rep. Darrell Issa’s ties to big business run deep, and as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, Issa has functioned quite efficiently as an arm of a Wall Street lobbying...
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No New Taxes! (Except for the Poor and Middle Class)
You might remember, if you haven’t forced it from your memory, that a few weeks ago Congress participated in some nerve-wracking brinksmanship over a routine but necessary raising of the debt ceiling,...
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‘What You Talkin’ Bout, Willard?’
If you watched TV in the 1980s, you surely remember this:The TV show Diff’rent Strokes– which featured the iconic tagline “What you talkin’ bout, Willis”? – was produced by PFAW’s founder Norman...
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GOP Planning to Use Disaster Aid as a Bargaining Chip
Steve Benen points out that in the wake of Tuesday’s East Coast earthquake and in anticipation of the hurricane expected to hit the eastern states this weekend, House Republicans are getting ready to...
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In Tight Race with Elizabeth Warren, Scott Brown Bucks Party to Endorse...
Last month, PFAW’s Marge Baker wrote an op-ed for The Hill suggesting a simple way that Congress can respond to the energy behind Occupy Wall Street: by finally confirming Richard Cordray to head the...
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