- Obama takes his case to people for "fiscal cliff" deal
- Republicans wave the white flag--Even Ann Coulter thinks so.
- McConnell Filibusters His Own Bill To Lift Debt Ceiling--Maybe the Senate can work something out to stop this ridiculousness.
- Poll: Republicans think anti-tax pledge is bad idea--GOP is still scheming how to avert the blame.
- Republican Congressman's Excuse For Not Extending The Middle-Class Tax Cuts--"Rep. John Duncan (R-TN) admits that he won't extend middle-class tax cuts in order to keep control of the floor out of the hands of Democrats."
- Why Not Push the Pentagon off the Fiscal Cliff?
- Billionaires Warn Higher Taxes Could Prevent Them From Buying Politicians--"Introducing a new wrinkle into the already fraught fiscal cliff showdown, a consortium of billionaires today warned that if their taxes are raised they will no longer have enough money to buy politicians." Let's see how many fall for this piece of satire.
- Senate Republicans' profiles in moral cowardice
- What Kind of Party Votes Against Protection for People With Disabilities?
- Stewart Rips GOP: 'They Hate The United Nations More Than They Like Helping People In Wheelchairs'
- Michigan passes 'right-to-work' measures--"Michigan's GOP-dominated statehouse voted Thursday in lame-duck session in favor of right-to-work laws that critics say would limit workers' rights and weaken unions."
- "This is where Democracy goes to die today."--"In this clip, State Rep. Brandon Dillon (D-Grand Rapids) explains his opposition to House Bill 4054, a proposal to make Michigan a 'right-to-work' state. The proposal was pushed through the House in one day without a single committee hearing and without taking a single word of testimony."
- 'It's Not Just Anti-Union. It's Anti-Worker.' NFLPA and MLBPA Join Fight Against Michigan Right-to-Work
- NFL Players Union Opposes Michigan's 'Right-To-Work' Push: 'We Don't Think Workers Deserve This'
- Obama: Right-To-Work Laws Mean 'Right To Work For Less Money'
- Krugman: The Forgotten Millions--"Let's get one thing straight: America is not facing a fiscal crisis. It is, however, still very much experiencing a job crisis." NYT
- The End of Middle Class Growth: What It Means for the Future of Work, Family, and the Economy
- McJobs Should Pay, Too: Inside Fast-Food Workers' Historic Protest For Living Wages
- The argument in the floor: Evidence is mounting that moderate minimum wages can do more good than harm
- This week in the War on Workers: This cartoon about taxing the rich outraged Rush Limbaugh
- Was spruce-up of Point Breeze lot a trespass?--Good samaritan gets sued by city for cleaning up trash.
- Disabled daughter dies just hours after state takes her from mom--Stay classy, Florida.
- Rick Scott's Job Czar Hunting Deutsch Quits After Collecting Unemployment Benefits While Traveling Through Europe--Stay classy, Florida.
- Florida State seeks details of young women's sex lives--Stay... ah, forget it. This is why they got their own Fark tag.
- Wikipedia Bans Congress--"A one-week ban on IP addresses associated with the US Congress will stay in effect until the Wikipedia Foundation can collect comments on abuses of Wikipedia by Congressional staffers."
- Republicans' Immigration Bill Blocked by Senate Democrats--It would have ended up "abolishing an annual lottery that distributes green cards to foreigners from countries with traditionally low immigration to the United States." NYT
- The GOP's immigration jam
- Understanding Immigration Reform"--Comprehensive immigration reform means different things to different people. What should we look for in attempts to fix the system?" NYT
- Top 10 Reasons Why The U.S. Needs Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- Illegal immigration drops after decade-long rise Salon
- How President Obama Won a Second Term--"Political strategist James Carville breaks down where the Republicans went wrong – and what it means for the future."
- Where Americans stood this election--"See how much selected voter groups voted Democratic or Republican in the 2012 election national exit poll."
- Ex-Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist tweets he’s 'proud and honored to join the Democratic Party'
- The Real Republican Adversary? Population Density
- Florida Rejects Christian Slater's Ballot--He resorted to using a provisional ballot after waiting for hours in line to vote.
- RNC launches official review on 2012 election
- GOP Resurrects Plan to Rig Electoral College--"After Romney got walloped on November 6, Republicans want to change how electoral votes are awarded."
- Almost Half of Republicans Indulge the 'Stolen Election' Delusion
- Billionaire Casino Mogul Sheldon Adelson Says He'll Double Down On GOP - Literally
- Will the GOP ever get serious?--"The Republicans' big-idea guys and policy wonks outlined their 2016 platforms this week. They sound a lot like 1980." Salon
- Paul Ryan Responds To Election Defeat By Swinging Even Further To The Right
- Joe Scarborough: Conservative Media Is 'Destroying' Republican Party
- Publicist confirms it: Fox News banned book critical of George W. Bush
- Fox News has oldest cable audience
- PR Stunts: Fake Study Links Fox News to Low IQs--"It was a headline destined to simultaneously inspire a dozen highfalutin op-eds and a million bitchy comments: Fox News Viewers Are the Dumbest. One problem, though: it was what we in the media world call 'a bunch of BS.'"
- FCC Taking Beating For Plans to Gut Media Consolidation Rules--Wawtch Sen. Bernie Sanders discuss why 'big media shouldn't get bigger.'
- Time Gives Up on Factchecking--"Corporate media can't find a way to tell the truth."
- 10 Brilliant Quotes by Noam Chomsky on How Media Really Operates in America
- The Oatmeal: I wrote a response to Jack Stuef's BuzzFeed article about me--The amount of misinformation in Stuef's article is absurd, and I saw a pathetic hack piece on Salon piling on Inman.
- What Disturbs Us Most About the N.Y. Post Subway Death Cover
