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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored...

As our politicians in Washington dicker and bicker over the details of health care reform--over how the CBO will score this, or how many votes can we get for that, or how can we deal the president a political blow on this, or what can we vote for and still keep the campaign contributions flowing on that--here's what happening to REAL people in the REAL world. A husband and father in Wisconsin, Bill Caudle,  has...

This news is troubling, if true:"The US is expected to announce a significant surge of up to 45,000 extra troops for Afghanistan after Gordon Brown said that 500 more British troops would be sent to the country. President Barack Obama's administration is understood to have told the British government that it could announce, as early as next week, the substantial increase to its 65,000 troops already serving there... Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, the...

Pardon my disillusionment this morning on the prospects for meaningful health care reform. That would be health care reform that includes a public option, a real one, not a POINO (public option in name only) and other elements upon which President Obama campaigned. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on CNN's State of the Union yesterday:"As you saw the president say in the joint session to Congress, he believes a public plan, a public...

Remember when President Obama said this in a September 14 speech to Wall Street on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers?"We will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked excess at the heart of this crisis, where too many were motivated only by the appetite for quick kills and bloated bonuses."Then came this on October 13: "On Thursday, Goldman Sachs will announce the firm's bonus payments for 2009. Analysts...

Rush Limbaugh's ongoing tantrum over being excluded from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams is hilarious to me. Especially this statement yesterday that the NFL is an "outpost of racism and liberalism": <br />Yes, that outpost of racism where 70% of the players are African-American. Where 17 of the top 25 salaries belong to African-American players. Just for our 2 Texas teams, the highest salaries on both the Houston Texans and the...

I found this at Firedoglake, and thought it was a great take on how the hundreds of millions spent by lobbyists trying to influence legislators in order to maintain the status quo could have been put to much better use:"In an article at CNN.com we learn how much money is being spent in an attempt to prevent real health care reform:"The health care sector has spent $263 million this year lobbying Congress for changes to...

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the 45th president of the United States. I'm not sure when the election took place (silly me, I thought the ballot read Obama/Biden, my bad) but this is now the most powerful person in Washington, D.C.:Don't believe it? Who was the person former President Obama singled out for praise the day the Senate Finance Committee passed its version of health care reform? Olympia Snowe: "I want to...

The Republican National Committee launched its new website, GOP.com, yesterday. It was an inauspicious beginning, to say the least, but typical of the modern-day GOP. Administrative passwords were exposed, the "Future Leaders" page was initially blank but later changed to "You," Michael Steele's blog originally titled "What Up" was amended to read "Change the Game," (I thought "change" was a bad word) and when the RNC hosted a kick-off conference call the website was down....

All you need to know about why the deck is stacked against us in the battle for health care reform. From Bill Moyers via Crooks and Liars:"Take a close look at that woman sitting behind Montana Senator Max Baucus. He's the Democrat who's the Chairman of the Finance Committee. Liz Fowler is her name. And now get this. She used to work for WellPoint, the largest health insurer in the country. She was Vice President...