"The Daily Show" host John Stewart on Tuesday mocked Fox News for its tendency to report on anecdotes about food stamp abuse. Stewart joked about a n... Read more
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Did you know? After the last post on this page is a link to "Older posts".Wednesday, March 5, 2014
41 GOP Senators Try To Filibuster Judge, Then Confirm Him Unanimously
The post-nuclear Senate is a strange place. Forty-one Republican senators voted Wednesday to filibuster Pedro A. Delgado Hernandez of Puerto Rico, a ... Read more
How To Reduce Food Stamp Spending Without Cutting The Program
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would also slash food stamp costs by almost $5 billion per year.The post How To ... Read more

Wisconsin Locals Fight For Regulation Of Carcinogenic Fracking Ingredient
A bill aimed at limiting the power of local governments to regulate
frac sand mines is causing controversy in Wisconsin The ... Read more

The Massive Policy Failure That Paul Ryan Wants To Emulate
Paul Ryan says 1990s welfare reform was a major success. Here's how it's failed on almost every metric.The post The Massive ... Read more
RWW News: John Hagee Says The Crisis In Ukraine Is The Beginning Of The Last Days
John Hagee says that the situation in Ukraine is the beginning of the Last Days, as Russia and various other nations prepare to invade Israel.
http://youtu.be/BU3xcg8FGoY
http://youtu.be/BU3xcg8FGoY
Is the Universe an Accident?
Theoretical physicist Alan Lightman suggests that our universe is one of many possible variations, leaving physicists at a cosmological dead end. Lightman's latest book is The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew.
http://youtu.be/fRG558zuWNU
http://youtu.be/fRG558zuWNU
Housing Crisis 2.0 Coming Soon Thanks To Wall Street
*Housing and consumer activists warn that Wall Street is about to crash the housing market -- again. The activists said they are particularly concerned about the growing number of companies looking to issue bonds backed by rental properties -- bonds that a coalition of groups described as "eerily like" those mortgage-backed securities that helped fuel the last housing bubble...The 2008 housing crisis happened because banks were willing to give even risky borrowers a mortgage, driving home prices to unsustainable peaks. Those mortgages got sold into bonds that defaulted once homebuyers stopped making their monthly payments. This time, gun-shy bankers are hard-pressed to give anyone but the most stellar borrowers a mortgage, said the groups, which include California Reinvestment Coalition and the National Consumer Law Center. Yet, home prices are rising again. That's because Wall Street investors with deep pockets and the ability to pay cash for homes are muscling out ordinary buyers in places hard-hit by the housing crisis, like Phoenix and Atlanta. Once these wealthy investors have bought the homes, they flip them into rentals -- often covering up large issues like plumbing and mold with cosmetic fixes...* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
http://youtu.be/HCDDESkNaAw
http://youtu.be/HCDDESkNaAw
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
The Mess on Our 'Information Superhighway'
No private party ought to be getting rich off a basic public trust.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/mess-our-information-superhighway

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/mess-our-information-superhighway
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