Here are five things you and your neighbors can do to celebrate the planet and put some energy cost savings back into your local economy.
Here are five things you and your neighbors can do to celebrate the planet and put some energy cost savings back into your local economy.
Is Social Security a good deal for Latinos? As the workforce gets browner in the coming years, it's a reasonable thing to ask whether Social Security taxes and benefits help all workers in the same way.
Speaker Boehner is trying to hide the exorbitant cost that he is undertaking in his defense of DOMA, which will easily cost millions of dollars. It's especially annoying when compared to his rhetoric on the need to slash the federal budget.
Ten quick ones from the boys at Limerick & Verse... A chicken with stars in her eyes Cut miscreant farms down to size. "A journalist hen?!" The...
Some of the better conservative talk radio hosts can be fearless questioners, even if their queries have everything to do with their political agenda and nothing to do with exposing the whole truth.
Something the media largely missed in the midst of multiple budgetary battles this week was the fact that this is what bipartisanship looks like.
The threat that Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell would put our nation into default by not allowing the debt ceiling to increase unconditionally simply isn't credible, because it would lead to the end of the Republican Party as we know it.
To be sure, Republicans have always been against the concept of Medicare. But hypocrisy entered into the discourse last year, when they attempted to position themselves as the ones who were going to "save Medicare."
The Planned Parenthood Mike Pence wants to eliminate looks nothing like the Planned Parenthood that three million patients rely on each year. It's time to end this political vendetta. It's wasting valuable time.
Appearance at GOP fundraiser is less than 24 hours after holding up the country. Stamford, CT -- On the heels of helping to avert the looming budget...
A very small number of political leaders have ended up with startling control over the country's priorities, and the public has been left piecing together what is happening well after it's been decided.
The politicians aren't telling us the truth about the budget cuts, probably because we aren't asking. Well I did ask, and I got a Democratic leader defending a Republican leader's secrecy. That's the real story of the budget showdown.
HuffPost's Howard Fineman appeared on MSNBC's 'Hardball' on Monday night alongside MSNBC Political Analyst Richard Wolffe to discuss the recent budget...
Paul Ryan's core beliefs aren't everyone's core beliefs. Many Americans don't believe that the only measure of effective government is "How much spending can you cut?" or "How many programs can you cripple?"
Now that the present Federal budget crisis has been resolved, it may be a good time to assess what was accomplished and what that small success may portend for the future.
Although both sides claimed victory after agreeing on a 2011 Federal budget minutes before the April 8th deadline, it was a smashing win for Republicans and a huge loss for Democrats.
It's time to stop playing nice. Good cop-good cop doesn't work. We need a bad cop. We need a strong progressive wing to keep shouting "no deal!" every time the White House wants to concede.
It was not necessary to shut down the government over a dispute involving less than one percent of the budget. What was done in Washington last week was extreme in the way that unskilled negotiators often act.
Never underestimate fear of change, particularly when what is required is a deep shift in attitude. Most of us are so conditioned to deploy both langu...
In this week's case study John Boehner plays the Good Cop who's negotiating with and "trying to help" the weakened Barack Obama in crisis.