- On the Fiscal Cliff, Republicans Got Nothin'--And according to one of them, that's just fine.
- There's Only One Relevant Question For The Republicans: 'Seriously? You're Going To Block A Tax Cut?'
- Alleging Republican 'blind eye' on defense spending, GOP senator proposes cuts--Why is military funding such a sacred cow?
- Boehner: No 'Difference' If Revenue Comes From Middle Class Or Super Rich--But it's like they don't care about the middle class anyway.
- Krugman: The Big Budget Mumble NYT
- Steele: Norquist blocking progress on debt deal--"Former RNC chair said the agreement would be done in '24 hours' if Norquist weren't involved."
- GOP's $4.6T 'fiscal cliff' counterproposal rebuffed--They, again, wanted to kill off Social Security and Medicare.
- Are Republicans Already Blowing the Next Election?
- Time magazine: the GOP is "full of it" and the press won't call them on it
- Jon Stewart: Fiscal Cliff Like An Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth That We Created And Fired At Ourselves
- How One GOP Plutocrat Helped Make 20,000 Kids Homeless--"Homelessness in New York has skyrocketed, thanks in part to years of conservative policy predicated on right-wing ideology."
- The Obscenely Rich Men Bent on Shredding the Safety Net
- Five Facts About America's Pathological Wealth Distribution
- Elizabeth Warren Wins Senate Banking Committee Seat: Sources
- Their Problem With Elizabeth Warren NYT
- Can Wall Street Tame Elizabeth Warren?
- As Senator, How Might Elizabeth Warren Help Your Finances?
- How important is the fiscal cliff for investors? Hint: Not very--But that's not stopping them from fearmongering.
- Obama Administration Sues Big Banks for Mortgage Fraud…Finally
- Wall Street Professionals Admit: Yes, Lots of Us Are Corrupt
- Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan Apparently Can't Remember Anything--"Moynihan's recently unveiled deposition in the MBIA v. Bank of America case will go down as one of the great Nixonian-stonewalling efforts ever, and one of the more entertaining reads of the year."
- Occupy Returns with a New Idea
- The Faustian Bargain between States and Banks--"States and banks have made a deal with the devil. Banks buy the sovereign bonds needed to prop states up in the tacit understanding that the states will bail them out in a pinch. But experts warn that this symbiotic arrangement might be putting the entire financial system at risk."
- Loss of income caused by banks as bad as a 'world war', says BoE's Andrew Haldane--" The financial crisis has been as economically devastating as a world war and may still be a burden on 'our grandchildren', a top Bank of England official has said."
- German man locked up over HVB bank allegations may have been telling truth--"Gustl Mollath was put in a psychiatric unit for claiming his wife was involved in money-laundering at the Bavarian bank. But seven years on evidence has emerged that could set him free."
- Arizona: Jan Brewer's Immigration Backlash Begins
- Judge To Birther Orly Taitz: "Evidence Is Not Stuff Printed From the Internet"
- President uses racial code to demean Romney at White House lunch--Oh noes!
- The Internal Polls That Made Mitt Romney Think He'd Win
- A detached Romney tends wounds in seclusion after failed White House bid
- Romney';s Five-Point Plan To Deal With The 47 Percent Gaffe
- Beyond Big Bird--"While Big Bird as a character served as a symbol in the fight to protect public broadcasting, it is now important to move past support alone and use nonprofit media to make genuine political changes in the country."
- PBS auto-tunes LeVar Burton Salon
- Patrick Stewart: Don't Support PBS Stations
