Thursday, December 25, 2025

Joe Manchin’s America

The resurgence of the culture-of-poverty debate.

Rep. Jamaal Brown introduces legislation that will propose income tax reform for ultra-wealthy

The introduced tax code for the nearly 700 billionaires would raise $1 trillion over ten years, according to a press release.

Resistance that won’t quit: A timeline of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Despite a Trump executive order undoing nearly nine years of defiance, the story of the-pipeline-that-won’t-die isn’t over.

June’s Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit is Up 9 Percent

The June trade deficit rose from the months prior because of rising imports.

The essence of evil; Republicans’ treachery against their fellow Americans

What Republicans are doing should be considered as an act of treachery.

Republicans craft health care plan to screw Trump voters

There is at least a small irony in the fact that millions of Trump voters will be frontline losers if Trumpcare gets signed into law.

China has it, America doesn’t; a vision, a strategic plan for the future

Is there any plan of any kind that this Trump-led government is following?

Laboratories of Democracy

Perhaps it's time to for the Democrats' strategic geniuses and the rest of us to pay a bit more attention to state rep/senate races.

Court bars Biden’s student debt relief program leaving program in legal limbo

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruling came after six states claimed that the debt relief plan "threatens their future tax revenues and circumvents congressional authority."

Donald Trump: The American-Made Fraud

A nation already suffering from unfair trade and archaic bridges cannot afford the raging fireball that is Donald Trump.