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Speakout for Good Jobs Now Tour

By cassandra_m June 15, 20117 Comments

ProgressiveCongress.org in conjunction with the Congressional Progressive Caucus is sponsoring a Congressional listening tour -- the Speak Out Tour -- of the US, with the goal of giving Americans a chance to talk about the thing they most care about, jobs:

Biden Joins NY Investigation into Validity of Mortgage Paperwork

By cassandra_m June 14, 2011

Attorney General Beau Biden is joining the investigation started by NY AG Eric Schneiderman in looking at mortgage Trustee Banks Bank of New York Mellon and Deutsche Bank.

Governor Markell on Radio Times

By cassandra_m June 13, 2011

Wish I had known about this earlier -- Governor Markell was on with Marty Moss-Coane on Radio Times during the first hour this AM.

Anyone Know There Is Another GOP Presidential Debate Tonite?

By cassandra_m June 13, 201153 Comments

Well, there is one and go figure -- the Clown Show gets to debate itself. Of course, this is one more exercise is just how much batshit crazy these guys will commit to in order to get the approval of the teajadis.

Ungrateful

By cassandra_m June 9, 20114 Comments

They got an extraordinary bailout funded and guaranteed by the taxpayers of the United States of America -- they still are -- and yet Jamie Dimon of ~~Citibank~~ Chase is whining about regulations from Dodd-Frank:

Bob Herbert is Back

By cassandra_m June 9, 20112 Comments

...and he's writing for The Policy Shop, the in-house blog of the DEMOS group. His piece there is called The Jobs Emergency and America in Crisis:

Late Night Video — Hear No Evil

By cassandra_m June 8, 20116 Comments

The so-called Libertarian Rand Paul tells Sean Hannity that he is willing to undermine our freedom of assembly in order to round up people who are listening to people talking (just talking) about the overthrow of the US government. So Steven Colbert observes that (according to Paul) apparently we have Freedom of Speech, but not Freedom of Listen:

Committee Hearing for New DelDOT Secretary Tomorrow

By cassandra_m June 7, 20112 Comments

This is a heads up -- the nominee for Secretary of Transportation, Mr. Shailen P. Bhatt, meets with the Senate Executive Committee to testify on his nomination on June 8, 2011.

Late Night Video — My Water’s On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song)

By cassandra_m June 6, 20112 Comments

In the tradition of Schoolhouse Rock, Jay Rosen and his graduate school class (Journalism) at NYU teamed up with Pro-Publica to produce this nicely done musical explainer of hydraulic Fracking for natural gas.

The Most Prominent Politicians from Delaware

By cassandra_m June 6, 20119 Comments

Erik Loomis over at Lawyers, Guns and Money is working on a project to identify the most prominent politicians from each state. He is working on this in order of admission to the Union, which means that a survey of Delaware's politicians is up first in this task.