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Connecticut State Rep. Mike Lawlor has penned an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune, advising his peers in the Illinois legislature on how to think about the prospect of impeaching Governor Rod Blagojevich. Lawlor and the CT legislature impeached criminal governor John Rowland a number of years ago and Lawlor’s experience and thoughtfulness shines through in [...]

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Per Markos, it’s clear that the joke is and has always been on us.The question remains how we respond to being the butt of a joke before we pick up our marbles and go home. Just to be clear, here’s the Way Things Work, as listed by kos but previously observed by anyone who has [...]

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Marcy Wheeler lays it out: Yet then Bush throws in the demands that Republicans made–without noting that this was basically an ideological ploy to break the union, all the while demanding that employees of American-owned companies make significantly less than the employees of Japanese-owned companies. Targets: The terms and conditions established by Treasury will include [...]

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President-elect Barack Obama has nominated California Democrat Hilda Solis to be Labor secretary. This is a great pick for working Americans, the labor movement, and progressives. I have a post of on SEIU’s blog that goes into Solis’s labor record in some depth, especially her forceful advocacy for the Employee Free Choice Act. You can [...]

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The New York Times editorial board gets shrill: We can understand that Americans may be eager to put these dark chapters behind them, but it would be irresponsible for the nation and a new administration to ignore what has happened — and may still be happening in secret C.I.A. prisons that are not covered by [...]

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As if aristocracy wasn’t enough of an insult to voters, Caroline Kennedy is giving New Yorkers the Sarah Palin treatment. In a carefully controlled strategy reminiscent of the vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin, aides to Caroline Kennedy interrupted her on Wednesday and whisked her away when she was asked what her qualifications are to be a [...]

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No one could have predicted… China said it has the right to block Web sites its says break its laws after being accused of restarting the practice it halted during the August Olympic Games as part of a promise to widen media freedom. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Tuesday that certain Web sites had [...]

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I was born in Brooklyn and have lived about half my life in New York. As a result, I find statements like this, on Caroline Kennedy’s pursuit of New York’s Senate vacancy, even more offensive than I might were I merely an American citizen. “It’s a tough thing — you can’t run against the little [...]

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Tim Karr of Free Press makes a convincing case that the WSJ piece on Google and net neutrality is bunk. Karr is probably one of the two or three most important leaders in the fight to preserve net neutrality. If he says there’s nothing to the Journal piece, I’ll take his word for it.

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Shorter Google: Hey we can afford tiered service in a non-net neutrality world. What, can’t you? Google isn’t a partner with the progressive movement. They will sometimes line up with us, but at the end of the day they will choose to act on behalf of their corporate bottom line and not their motto of [...]

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