Share HAITI Here is the American Red Cross website. Here is Doctors without Borders. Here is UNICEF. Please donate if you can. TYPICAL CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS – TENS OF THOUSANDS DEAD & THEY DON’T CARE By now you’ve heard that Pat Robertson said that Haiti was cursed by a pact revolting slaves made with the devil [...]

Share The US Chamber of Commerce: Committed in Increasing the Cost of Doing Business The Insurance Industry has paid the US Chamber of Commerce between $10 million and $20 million to run ads against health reform, according to a report in The National Journal.  Some commentators have asked “So what?” when confronted with this news. [...]

Share Google may be leaving China, not for any ethical reasons but to save its own skin.  Still, this is to be welcomed as several major US corporations have assisted the Chinese government’s censorship, montoring and persecution of its own people.  Much of the insecurity infrastructure put in place during the run up to the [...]

Share Paul Krugman demolishes the argument that social progress destroys economic progress today.  The 15 EU countries from the Reagan era have outperformed us in terms of per capita gdp, all while guaranteeing universal (and better) health care, a decent retirement, and an education.   How will conservatives respond to this?  Maybe we should ask Sarah Palin, Fox News’ new twit..terer [...]