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I have very little fellow feeling for the banksters, but there was a tinge of empathy the other day when I read this quote Susie Madrak picked up on from a New York Times article about Wall Street's reaction to the proposed banking tax: "The big banks, the lobbyists say, have become increasingl

Laugh if you want, but even the Chinese know that it would be a fabulous idea to link Anaheim, CA to Las Vegas, NV by high speed rail, potentially creating 90,000 jobs in the process, which is why a Chinese export-import bank is looking to finance it after the US federal government decided

At a presidential town hall last week in Tampa, Florida, Vice President Biden talked about rail spending from the Recovery Act:

Years may pass before we know the full impact of the Supreme Court's recent decision to grant corporations extraordinary and unprecedented political speech rights as if they were real people and n

One of the several burning questions following the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision was touched last night in the State of the Union.

Since I last wrote about Obama's most recent set of policy proposals, I ended up in an argument with a guy who said that supporting transportation spending over a child care tax credit promotes structural sexism by favoring a mostly male employment sector over a mostly female emp

President Obama's recent statements in advance of the State of the Union have centered around supporting middle class families through tax cuts, deficit reduction and job creation. But not very much job creation.