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Wall Street's 10 Biggest Lies of 2009

Les Leopold | Posted 12.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Hunger, Wall Street Bailout, Unemployment, Morgan Stanley, TARP Money, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Billionaires, Socialism, Paul Volcker, Executive Compensation, Wall Street Bonuses, Business News
Les Leopold

Not only are we richly rewarding those who wrecked our economy, but also, we have to put up with hundreds of fabrications about how the big banks got us here. Here is my biggest, fattest lies list for 2009.

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Bill O'Reilly: A Socialist in Denial

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 12.26.2009 | Media

Read More: The O'Reilly Factor, Law and Order SVU, Immigration, Socialism, Border Wall, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Wolf, Everify, Bill Oreilly Anti-Immigration, Bill Oreilly Immigration, Bill Oreilly Socialism, Media News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

In an emotional outburst, Bill O'Reilly condemned Dick Wolf and NBC for a recent Law and Order episode. What is essential is that in his core views on immigration, O'Reilly is a hard-core socialist.

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It's the 'Public' Not the 'Option' in 'Public Option' That Counts

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Health Care, Chuck Schumer, Framing, Medicare Buy In, Health Care Reform, Bernie Sanders, Socialism, Health Insurance, Republicans, Politics News
Benjamin R. Barber

The "public option" provision to be traded off was perhaps the only place in the bill where the rights and interests of the 'public' are publicly recognized.

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Tiger Should Take More Than "Indefinite" Leave, He Should Take Swedish Parental Leave

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 12.14.2009 | Sports

Read More: Parental Leave, Golf, Sweden, Tiger Woods, Elin Nordegren, Fatherhood, Socialism, Elin Nordegren's Mother, Fathers, Tiger Woods Mistress, Tiger Woods Affair, Indefinitie Leave, Tiger Woods Scandal, Sports News
Nathan Hegedus

Tiger would do well here in Sweden. For Swedes' sense of privacy and reserve far outstrips their distaste of all things porn and sleaze.

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News Flash: Medicare Didn't End Freedom in America!

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare, Socialism, Operation Coffeecup, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Aaron E. Carroll

The most outlandish arguments against health care reform aren't new. When Medicare was fought, cries of socialism and the end of freedom were rampant.

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Climategate and the Life-Cycle of Nontroversy

Matt Osborne | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Zombie Outrage, Climate, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Obama Climate Change, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Climate Crisis, Climate Change Legislation, Mainstream Media, Nontroversy, Media Criticism, Stovepiping, Zombie-Outrage, Denialism, Climate Legislation, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Media News, Socialism, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming Denial, Climate Change Bill, Memes, Media Bias, Climate Bill, Green News
Matt Osborne

Nontroversy feeds on empty, twisted brains. In this case, a general unfamiliarity with the language of scientific banter allows the "climategate" nontroversy to overwhelm the consensus on global warming.

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21st Century Socialism's Impact on Latin American Economic Performance

Daniel Wagner | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Socialism, Latin America, Brazil, World News
Daniel Wagner

In spite of the avalanche of oil wealth, the Latin America's petro states have generally failed to invest adequately in local infrastructure or keep pace with the rising levels of expectation among their populations.

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Will Republicans Ever Have a Viable Alternative to the Public Option?

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Option, Life-Cycle Health Insurance, House Health Reform Bill, Republican, Obama, Socialism, Politics News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

The House health care overhaul bill passed not because Democrats prepared a good proposal but because Republicans showed an amazing inability to present a viable alternative.

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WSJ: AIG CEO Robert Benmosche Ready To Quit Over Pay Constraints

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Geithner, Regulation, Credit Default Swaps, Obama, White House, Bailout, Insurance, Treasury, Benmosche, Wall Street, Robert Benmosche, New York, AIG Bailout, House, Kenneth Feinberg, Financial Reform, Aig, Metlife, Capitalism, Tim Geithner, Financial Regulation, Executive Compensation, Liddy, Barack Obama, Banks, Socialism, Bonuses, Ken Feinberg, Executive Pay, Edward Liddy, Senate, Business News

NEW YORK — After just three months as head of battered insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post a...

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It's Amazing What's Considered Radical These Days

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Fascism, Communism, Universal Health Care, Medicare, Socialism, Politics News
Aaron E. Carroll

The House passed health care reform on Saturday night. I can't believe it's been this hard. How far has the Right (and the Left) moved to the right? Bear with me as I take you into the past.

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Lessons For US Economic Policy From The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Experiment, 1989, East Germany, Economy, West Germany, Regulation, Democracy, Capitalism, Fee Market Economy, Lessons From Fall of Berlin Wall, Lessons From Germany, Berlin Wall, Communism, Paul Samuelson, Economic Policy, Germany, Unification, Command Economy, Cold War, Socialism, Free Market, Fall of Berlin Wall, Berlin, Politics News

The abrupt and miserable end of the socialist experiment--it all happened so fast, with East Germany getting absorbed into West Germany on Oct. 3, 199...

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Conservatives/Republicans Have "New Rules" for President Obama

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama School Speech, Olympics, Afghanistan, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Criticism, Socialism, Health Care, Politics News
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

New Rule: Don't engage in the outrageous, unethical practice of inviting your friends and donors to use the bowling alley at the White House. Instead give them no-bid contracts like we did for Halliburton.

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"Black Tuesday" and "Happy Days Are Here Again" at 80

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Income Distribution, Labor Unions, Black Tuesday, Tax Rates, Happy Days Are Here Again, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Socialism, Capitalism, Free-Market Economics, Barack Obama, Recession, Great Depression, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Crisis Mccain, Business News
Robert S. McElvaine

In what must rank as one of the most ironic coincidences in history, "Happy Days Are Here Again" was recorded on the day that was to be called "Black Tuesday" and become synonymous with the with the onset of the Great Depression.

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Why Ostrom's Nobel Is Even More Shocking Than Obama's

Randall Amster | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Resources, Tragedy of the Commons, Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear Weapons, Economics, Conflict, Cooperation, Resource Conflict, War, The Commons, Nobel Peace Prize, Socialism, Mutual Aid, Business News
Randall Amster

Make no mistake, despite the somewhat tame Nobel committee description, Ostrom's body of work is inherently radical, demonstrably anti-corporate, and implicitly socialistic.

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What Olympia Snowe's Support Could Mean

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Rush Limbaugh, Public Option, Senate Health Committee, Senate Finance Committee, John Boehner, Progressives, Democratic Party, Bipartisan, Sarah Palin, Senate, Joe Wilson, Health Care Reform, Senator Olympia Snowe, Bipartisanship, Socialism, Health Care, Republican Party, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

By supporting a moderate bill in committee, Snowe has made the GOP, or at least part of it, relevant again; succeeding where Michael Steele, John Boehner, Joe Wilson, Rush Limbaugh and others have failed.

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Republican Leaders Join In Honoring New Rotunda Statue Of Radical Socialist Woman

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marx, International Workers of the World, Mitch McConnell, Mcconnell, The Spirit of Lenin, John Boehner, Leninism, Wells, Teacher, Statue, Republican, History, Pelosi, Barbara Bindley, American History, Socialist, Lies My Teacher Taught Me, Nancy Pelosi, Russia, Syndicalist, Handicap, Reid, Radical, Red, Leaders, How I Became a Socialist, Socialism, Alabama, marxists.org, James W Loewen, Childhood, Lenin, Soviet Union, State Quarter, HG Wells, Chris Weigant, Revolutionary, Marxism, Harry Reid, Plutocrat, Why I Became an IWW, Republicans, Boehner, Aclu, Capitol, Brooklyn Eagle, Syndicalism, Rotunda, Loewen, Bindley, Iww, Wobblies, Wobbly, Politics News
Chris Weigant

A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.

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Afraid of Socialist Healthcare in America? It's Already Here

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Health, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Socialism, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Politics News
Michael J. O'Neil

Any health care system that does not provide unlimited care to everyone employs rationing.

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Michael Moore Asks: What Would Jesus Do?

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Charles Sheldon, Roman Catholic Church, Jesus, Michael Moore, Michael Moore Capitalism: A Love Story, In His Steps, Blessed Are the Poor, What Would Jesus Do?, Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity, Socialism, Bishop of Chicago, Entertainment News
Paul Raushenbush

Roman Catholic Priests are the surprising voices of clarity and conviction in Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story. They aren't ambivalent -- they characterize capitalism as evil.

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A Right to Health Care Is a Public Option

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Socialism, Public Option, Senate Finance Committee, Maria Cantwell, Max Baucus, Health Insurance, Alan Grayson, Health Care, Politics News
Miles J. Zaremski

The public option for health care is far from death's door. But it is our job to convince Democrats, that the sine qua non of health care is the public option.

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Michael Moore & Me

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bernie Sanders, Socialism, Capitalism, Michael Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News
Sen. Bernie Sanders

Capitalism helps create an entrepreneurial spirit. But on the other hand, especially since the Reagan era, what we have seen in this country is an unfettered type of cowboy capitalism.

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My Brother Loves Glenn Beck, But I Still Love My Brother

Suz Redfearn | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Rush Limbaugh, Cambridge Police Department, Right-Wing, Msm, Peter Fleckenstein, Fda, 9/12 Tea Party March, Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, New World Order, Acorn, Tea Baggers, Joe Wilson, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Ayers, Birther, Curtis Blackwood, Glenn Beck, Sec, Socialism, Tea Party, Czars, Liberty Group, Politics News
Suz Redfearn

My brother rolled into D.C. from Boston on a chartered bus, arriving in the dark outside a Marriott. I scanned the pack of fairly nondescript folks ...

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Oh, Now You Care

Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Socialism, Tea Baggers, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Tea Party, Illegal Immigrants, George W. Bush, Politics News
Vanessa Carmichael

Shame these outraged citizens weren't taking it to the streets during the Iraq War. We could have used their righteous indignation when Rumsfeld threw millions of Saddam's money at militants.

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The Big Bailout of '08: Hindsight Is Blind

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Bank Failures, Paulson, Bailouts, Bernanke, Recession, Michael Moore, Socialism, Dick Fuld, Capitalism, Thain, Geithner, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Maybe Michael Moore's anti-capitalist screed is actually an interesting nexus where right and left converge in hatred of the system that rewards failure and lets the bad guys run the next iteration of the machine.

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Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Documents Radio/TV Diva Gertrude Berg Popular from Great Depression Through McCarthy Era

Penelope Andrew | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chris Milanos Downey, A Majority of One, Ed Asner, African-Americans, Actresses, Aviva Kempner, Catholic-Americans, Emmy Award, Red Channels, Richmond-Virginia, Documentary Film, Tony Award, Gertrude Berg, Jewish-Americans, Rosalind Russell, Aphrodite Palans Andrew, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Communism, The Black List, Screenwriters, Red Scare, Philip Loeb, Huac, Socialism, Susan Stamberg, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg, Women Directors, Norman Lear, Radio, The Rise of the Goldbergs, Greek-Americans, The Goldbergs, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg underscores a unique moment in our history when the Jewish experience crossed over into households composed of African Americans and Midwesterners, as they all listened to The Rise of the Goldbergs.

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O'Reilly Endorses Public Option, Which He Previously Called "Socialism"

Think Progress | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Middle Class, Federal Reserve, Fox News, Socialism, Healthcare Reform, Bill O'Reilly, Healthcare Costs, Health Insurance Reform, Health Care, Politics News

Last night on Fox News, Bill O'Reilly actually told a Heritage Foundation scholar who was fear-mongering government-backed health care that he favors ...

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