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Scott Walker's Walking Papers? Wisconsin Recall Effort Approaches Climax

Don C. Reed | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Bob LaFollette, Progressive, Democracy, Wisconsin, Republicans, Democrats, Scott Walker, Job Losses, Politics News
Don C. Reed

On June 5, this Tuesday, who will come to the voting booths? Will it be supporters of stem cell research for a cure -- or those who would ban what began in Wisconsin? As a stem cell research supporter myself, I regard Scott Walker as a dedicated enemy of America's hopes for cure research.

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The Marie Antoinette of Health Insurance and How to Dethrone Her

Jamie Court | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Jamie Court, Medicare, Progressive, Affordable Health Care, Rate Hikes, Insurance Reform, Health Care, Wellpoint, Anthem Blue Cross, Dianne Feinstein, Angela Braly, Medical, California, Politics News
Jamie Court

Health insurance rates are like a runaway train and there's no police force or firefighting squad with the power to stop them. Thirty-five states require health insurance companies to get permission before raising rates, but not California.

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Liberal, Conservative: Are You Born That Way?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Politics, Democrat, Video, Neuroscience, Progressive, Personality, Brain, Talk Nerdy to Me, Republican, Chris Mooney, Science, Conservative, Liberal, Cara Santa Maria, Science News, The Republican Brain, Ideology, Science News

2012-05-07-Screenshot20120507at1.18.50PM.jpgDo we have traits that can be used to reliably predict whether someone is liberal or conservative in nature?

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Progressive Politics Played a Big Part in Integrating Baseball

Christopher Lamb | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Progressive, Race in Sport, Sociology of Sport, Jackie Robinson Story, Integration of Baseball, Jackie Robinson Integration, Jackie Robinson Day, Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey, Sports News
Christopher Lamb

Major league baseball will honor Robinson today, as it does every year, with Jackie Robinson Day. Today players will all wear Robinson's 42, which is the only number in baseball retired in perpetuity.

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The Big Distraction

Max Skolnik | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Leadership, Progressive, Small Business, Ward 4, Ethics, Harry Thomas Jr., Community Schools, Education Reform, Max Skolnik, Dc, Scandal, Election, 2012, Promise Neighborhood, DC News
Max Skolnik

We have lost sight of the true problems facing the District. While we fiddle with the composition of a new ethics board and technical changes to the municipal code, DC burns with 30% child poverty and 50% youth unemployment rates.

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It's Time Washington Saves the American Dream

Jose Hernandez | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Leadership, Progressive, Congress, Nasa, Populism, California, Jose Hernandez, Social Security, Ca-10, Medicare, Space Shuttle Discovery, Astronaut, American Dream, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News
Jose Hernandez

The son of migrant-farm workers, I was able to rise from the fields of California and touch the sky on the Space Shuttle Discovery as an Astronaut, a lifelong goal I was able to achieve thanks to the promise of the American Dream.

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Zach Carter

WATCH: Occupy Wall Street Protests Ignite Progressive Political Fire In Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Politics, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Progressive, Video, The Nation, Robert Reich, Van Jones, Economy, Occupy Wall Street, Jobs, Obama, Campaign for America's Future, #Occupywallstreet, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- With the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations inspiring scores of similar protests nationwide, a progressive conference in the nation's cap...

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A Diva Is Gone: Vesta, You'll Be Missed

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Krxa, Sting, Billboard, Long Beach, Kfi, Karel, Charles Karel Bouley, Janet Jackson, Kgo, Andrew Howard, Kjfk, Kjrb, E. J. Jackson, Advocate, Liberal, A&M Records, Gay, Huffingtonpost, Los Angeles, Wvnj, Kyns, Progressive, Radio, Vesta Williams, Vesta, green1640, Talk, Knx, San Francisco, Entertainment News
Charles Karel Bouley

Vesta Williams was one of the greatest singers in R&B and music, period. And I was lucky enough to call her a friend. Her voice is now silenced but her drive and passion live on forever in her music and videos.

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Latest Propaganda: Debt = Sewage

Alan Grayson | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Progressive, Medicaid, Medicare, Grayson, Fight Back, Koch, Social Security, Politics News
Alan Grayson

Coming from the right-wing worshipers of the free market, their latest analogy seems odd. Borrowing is a voluntary, "arms-length" agreement between two autonomous beings, which is exactly what the free market is all about.

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A Wisconsin Centennial Worth Celebrating

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Post Office, Kennedy, Labor, Stamp, Fighting Bob, La Follette, Compensation, Usps, Democrats, Workmans Comp, Progressive, Workplace, Wisconsin, Centennial, Postal Service, Workmens Comp, Workers Comp, Work, Chris Weigant, Robert La Follette, Workers Compensation, Gaylord Nelson, Injury, Workers Comp Centennial, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Since the news yesterday was a bit depressing for progressives, I thought it was time to mark an important upcoming centennial: on the first of September in 1911, the first constitutional workers' compensation law took full effect in Wisconsin.

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God's Progressive Prophets

Omar Baddar | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Muhammad, Progressive, Religion and Politics, Prophets, Jesus, Liberal, Moses, Progressive Prophets, Religion News
Omar Baddar

There is no escaping the conclusion that religious figures like Moses, Jesus and Muhammad were in fact liberal progressives, courageously fighting against major societal injustices that were largely driven by religious fanaticism.

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Bubble-Wrapped Inside Our Economic Stalemate

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: De-Regulation, Economy, Middle Class, Jobs, Regulation, Guilty, Conservative, Eliot Spitzer, Investors, Progressive, Education, Charles Ferguson Inside Job, 2012 Presidential Election, Inside Job, Banks, Italy, New York, Greece, Elections 2012, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

If you feel fed up by the stalemate over the economy and you want to know who to blame, watch Inside Job. They are all to blame. This past week as the...

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Shearer Uneasy With Corps in New Katrina Film

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Krxa, Long Beach, Kfi, Charles Karel Bouley, Karel, Kgo, Kjrb, Los Angeles, Liberal, Shearer, Obama, Huffingtonpost, Gay, Army Corps of Engineers, Progressive, Kyns, Andrew Howard, The Big Uneasy, Radio, Kkgn, Kudo, Katrina, Slidepollajax, Talk, Knx, San Francisco, Entertainment News
Charles Karel Bouley

It's easy to forget about Katrina and New Orleans, since it was almost six years ago. But actor/comic/filmmaker Harry Shearer has not forgotten. As a part-time resident of New Orleans he's lived it from the beginning.

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Fighting For America's Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011

Al Franken | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Netroots, Progressive, Al Franken, Republicans, Politics News
Al Franken

Medicare, and Medicaid, and investment in infrastructure, and public education, and workers' rights, and civil rights, -- these aren't just good progressive ideas, they're examples of traditional American values.

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The Lion's Den That Was Netroots Nation

Sally Kohn | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Blogosphere, Andrew Breitbart, Progressive, Tone, Dan Pfeiffer, Netroots Nation, Bloggers, President Obama, Netroots, Right Online, Civility, Professional Left, Politics News
Sally Kohn

Should the "professional left" aggressively push the Obama administration to do more for working families? Hell yeah! Yet the tone of the questioning was infinitely more critical than friendly.

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Modern Monetary Theory: The Last Progressive Left Standing

Warren Mosler | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Reese Neader, Social Security, President Obama, Cpc, Modern Monetary Theory, China, Transfer of Wealth, Institutional Structure, Unemployment, Deficit Reductions, US National Debt, Treasuries, Epi, Taxes, IMF Bailouts, US Dollar, Mmt, Public Infrastructure, Low Taxes, Public Monopoly, Sovereign Debt Default, Progressive Agenda, Seniors, Federal Deficits, Printing Money, Progressive, Inflation, National Sovereignty, Medicare, Populist, Hyperinflation, Cap, Business News
Warren Mosler

The headline progressives are in full retreat. They have found out the hard way that their bleeding heart pleadings -- 'yes, the financial markets might destroy us, but how can we cut this or that worthy cause' -- don't cut it.

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Explaining Taxes

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Taxes, Social Security, Lobbying, Politicians, Stocks, Congress, Business, Lobbyist, Income Tax, Progressive, Bribe, Tax, Corporations, Capital Gains, Sales Tax, Gulliver, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The concept of taxes, of course, is pretty easy to explain. Except when you look at it too closely.

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Weekly Audit: The Shocking Truth About Taxes

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.19.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The super rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their tax rates are lower. According to I...

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President Obama's Budget Talk: Did I Miss Something?

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.15.2011

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Charles Karel Bouley

In the budget "debate" the Democrats have had it wrong all the time. They contended that the budget was no place to have an ideological debate about things like Planned Parenthood, the EPA or NPR. But that's exactly the place to have that debate.

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Morfin: a Progressive Tug

Cali Slaughter | Posted 06.07.2011

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Cali Slaughter

Beyond the hard results, countless factors enter into the electoral process to create lasting change in the way politics are conducted.

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Obama on Libya: Mission Accomplished?

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.29.2011

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Charles Karel Bouley

On Monday, President Barack Obama took to the airwaves to tell the American people about his decision to use military force to intervene in the Libyan...

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Coming Full Circle: Ireland After St. Pat's

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charles Karel Bouley

Ireland may be a world away for so many of you, but let me tell you, it's waiting to welcome you. It's been welcoming people for thousands of years and will go on.

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"Spring Awakening"-- Teen Masturbation, Pregnancy, Incest, Suicide and Rape In A Catchy Musical

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charles Karel Bouley

Watching the touring company of "Spring Awakening" at their premiere night at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, CA was awkward at times; but then again, so was puberty so that's the point.

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Reform Revolution on the Dole

Shaun Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: At the Chalk Face, Standardized Testing, Progressive, Conservative, Shaun Johnson, Education Reform, Education News
Shaun Johnson

I've lately decided to be a bit more, I don't know, explicit with my resistance of mainstream education reform.

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Michele Bachmann's Brilliant Move

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Progressive, Populist, Sotu, Overton Window, Liberal, Right Wing, Tea Party, State of the Union, Michele Bachmann, Michele Bachmann Response, State of the Union 2011, Sotu 2011, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

Michele Bachmann's idea of giving a second Republican reply to the State of the Union was politically brilliant. Democrats, progressives and real populists would be well-advised to understand why.

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