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Considering this:"Nearly half of the unemployed--45.9%--have been out of work longer than six months, more than at any time since the Labor Department began keeping track in 1948...Overall, seven million Americans have been looking for work for 27 weeks or more, and most of them--4.7 million--have been out of work for a year or more."And this:How do you get to this?:"Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the economy has now recovered sufficiently for government to begin...

. From TPMDC:   "Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, currently running third in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary race, says he's not sure if Constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion apply to the followers of the world's second-largest faith, Islam. At a recent event in Hamilton County, Ramsey was asked by a man in the audience about the "threat that's invading our country from the Muslims." Ramsey proclaimed his support for the Constitution and the...

In April of this year Karl Rove and former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie launched American Crossroads, billed as "an independent, national grassroots political organization whose mission is to speak out in support of conservative issues and candidates across America.""Independent?" Besides Rove and Gillespie:"American Crossroads...is the brainchild of a team of veteran GOP consultants, including former RNC chairman Mike Duncan, Republican operative Jim Dyke and Steven J. Law, who is leaving his perch as...

The bloviator-in-chief yesterday, from behind the golden microphone at the Excrement In Broadcasting Network: "On his show Thursday, Limbaugh blasted [Fox News anchor Shepard] Smith for not showing the video, suggesting that Smith only showed restraint because he didn't have the "guts" to show it. "Even Fox caved on this. Even poor old Shep Smith went down there and said that everybody's wrong on this, that Breitbart is wrong and so forth," Limbaugh said during...

To listen to the Bush administration history revisionists and legacy reconstructionists one would think that his 2 terms in office started on September 12, 2001. For years they have reminded us how President Bush "kept us safe" for over 7 years following 9/11, which is kind of like saying that other than the iceberg incident the captain of the Titanic had an impeccable safety record. Now that Republicans are running on a platform of taking...

Two prominent Republicans gave us a preview of what to expect should the GOP regain the majority in the House in the November mid-term elections. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann......said:"I think that all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another, and expose all the nonsense that has gone on."The man who would be Speaker, John Boehner......has a three point plan--repeal health care reform, kill climate legislation, and (surprise !) extend all the...

I am a racist. I admit it. I can't stand so many of these old(er) white men who sit on their asses collecting a paycheck they don't deserve while people under them with no power or authority, but a heckuva lot of responsibility for P&L, lose their jobs as a direct result of what the old(er) white man did or didn't do.I can't stand the fact that in Corporate America, it can be a...

One of our newer readers (at least in terms of comments) challenged my budget proposals and offered some new and interesting suggestions. I say they were interesting because they were well thought out, but they deserved some attention. I thought about replying to them directly, but decided to use the concept as a jumping off point. This is going to be one of those audience participation kind of things. The concept of the sacred cow...

As I was watching Rachel Maddow's opening segment tonight it brought to mind this comment from Huey Freeman on this morning's post about the Shirley Sherrod firing. Huey wrote:"...what I find to be the most troubling is the story that's not being covered, which is that the right is making a concerted effort play on people's racial fears to bring down the Obama Presidency...The right is playing a sinister game. Instead of trying to...

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