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Right-wingers frenzied to save tax cuts for rich
September 14, 2010Several House and Senate Republicans are complaining that GOP Minority Leader John Boehner fell for a trap laid by President Obama when he said last weekend that, given no other option, he would vote for extending middle class tax cuts even if it meant allowing the Bush tax cuts for the rich to expire.
Read moreBoehner blinks on Bush tax cuts for the rich
September 13, 2010House Minority Leader John Boehner says he'll vote for Obama's tax plan.
Read morePalin is new Joe McCarthy, says AFL-CIO Trumka
August 27, 2010AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Sarah Palin's radical right rhetoric is "poisonous, dangerous and strikes of McCarthyism."
Read moreGermans take note of wealth gap in America
August 24, 2010The days when Europeans believed that in America the streets are paved with gold are long over.
Read moreDisney worker rejects employer’s substitute hijab
August 23, 2010ANAHEIM, Calif. - Is Disney policy part of the Islamophobia being trumpeted by the ultra-right?
Read moreRecord jobless numbers trigger new alarm
August 20, 2010Despite economic forecasts to the contrary jobless claims rose last week by 12,000 to 500,000, the third straight weekly increase and the first time in nine months that they hit the half-million mark.
Read moreDisneyland worker sent home for hijab
August 19, 2010A Muslim employee in Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel has been sent home from work with no pay for refusing to take off her hijab while working as a hostess in a hotel restaurant.
Read more'New' GOP proposals smell like old ideas
August 19, 2010Responding to criticism that they have no plan to pull the country out of economic crisis, Republicans have begun rolling out a variety of 'new' plans.
Read moreCollege grad adds union organizing to job as a laundry hauler
August 18, 2010Unorganized California hotel workers stage a one-day strike.
Read moreOil still a problem in the Gulf, scientists warn
August 18, 2010The oil that BP and the government claim is gone from the Gulf of Mexico is actually still there, and threatens the eco-system, two groups of scientists said this week.
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