The Line at the DMV
By Dave Johnson for Speak Out California Two previous posts explored the outline of the California state budget, and the process by which the budget ...
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House Dems War Cry: Surrender!
Tom Andrews | Posted 12.09.2007 | Politics
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In the battle over the military occupation of Iraq, House Democrats have apparently decided that the only way to avoid losing is to not show up.
What The Reagan/Bush Debt Means To You
Dave Johnson | Posted 12.08.2007 | Politics
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As I write this, the U.S. national debt is about $9.17 trillion dollars. Don't for a minute think that you do not owe that money.
No Budget? No Paycheck.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
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President Bush has been proven wrong in some big and spectacular ways this week. But while he continues to channel his foreign policy advice from Plu...
Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Serves Up Call to Political Action
Bryan Bissell | Posted 12.03.2007 | Home
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A group of 125 college students listened to Ben Cohen, of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, talk about changing the priorities of the budget.
Good Lord, Democrats, Don't You See What's Coming?
Dave Johnson | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics
Why aren't Democrats and progressives out there NOW with a counter-narrative, explaining to the public why conservatives and their ideology are bad for America?
Dems Block $70 Billion In "No-Strings" Iraq Funding -- But For How Long?
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics
Members of the House and Senate came together on Tuesday morning to work out how to fund U.S. armed forces at home and abroad. But at the end of the ...
2007 Spying Said to Cost $50 Billion
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 10.29.2007 | Politics
The director of national intelligence will disclose today that national intelligence activities amounting to roughly 80 percent of all U.S. intelligen...
SCHIP Costs Too Much!?!?!?!?!
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics
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Maybe we should have included an arms appropriation in the bill. Then Bush would have given it a blank check.
Is It Time For Harry Reid To Step Down?
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.24.2007 | Politics
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Is it time to call on Harry Reid to step down from his position as Senate Majority Leader? This column poses the question, but admittedly, provides no...
Column: The Lesson of the DMV
David Sirota | Posted 09.14.2007 | Politics
Conservative syndicated columnists dominate disproportionately dominate newspapers. So I am going to need readers like you to contact your local papers asking them to carry my column.
No on Nussle
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 09.03.2007 | Politics
Bush desperately needs a budget director who will make him face the facts, not fan his fantasies. I am afraid Jim Nussle is not that person.
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Dave Johnson | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics