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Goodbye, Liberty! 10 Ways Americans Are No Longer Fre...
By Escape The Illusion on August 31, 2012 | No Comments
By Richard (R.J.) Eskow. Our struggle for liberty is a fight against concentrated wealth. Our most fundamental rights, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, are under assault. But the adversary is Big Wealth, not Big Government as conservatives like to claim. Consider: Life? The differences... -
4 Ways That Democrats Want To Cut Taxes On The RichBy Escape The Illusion on July 28, 2012 | No Comments
By Josh Harkinson. The big debate in Washington right now centers around whether or not to “tax the rich.” This week, Senate Democrats passed a plan to cut income taxes on the middle class while increasing them on families that make more than $250,000 a year. Next week, House Republicans... -
The 10 Craziest State Legislatures In AmericaBy Escape The Illusion on July 24, 2011 | No Comments
By Kenneth Quinnell. The worst things that have passed in the states, in both quantity and quality, are coming from Republican-controlled legislatures. While attention was naturally focused on the changes in Congress that came as a result of the 2010 elections, an overlooked, but vitally important, ... -
Exxon Makes $30.5 Billion, So GOP Votes Unanimously T...By Escape The Illusion on May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
By Brad Johnson. Exxon Mobil is by far the most profitable company in the new Fortune 500 list, riding “high oil prices to a staggering $30 billion in income” in 2010. Exxon made over $10 billion more than fellow oil giant Chevron, the third most profitable company (AT&T edged out Chevron f... -
Public Employee Unions Don’t Get One Penny from...By Escape The Illusion on March 5, 2011 | No Comments
By Joshua Holland. Nobody has to belong to a union or support its political activities, but you’d never know that from reading the news. Let us begin with this simple, indisputable truth: public employees’ unions don’t get a single red cent from taxpayers. And they aren’t a ... -
Obama Makes a Muscular Defense of Social Security, Bu...By Escape The Illusion on January 26, 2011 | No Comments
By John Nichols. President Obama used his second State of the Union Address to deliver a muscular defense of Social Security, the crown jewel program of the New Deal that progressives had feared was under threat as the president triangulated to the right following November, 2010, election setbacks f... -
The New American OligarchyBy Escape The Illusion on December 2, 2010 | No Comments
By Andy Kroll. There is a war underway. I’m not talking about Washington’s bloody misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders. It’s a war fought on the airwaves, on television and radio and over the Internet, a war of words and images, of half-truth, innuendo, a... -
S 510 Food Safety Bill now Dead in the Water – ...By Escape The Illusion on December 1, 2010 | No Comments
By Mike Adams. It is now being revealed that US Senators slipped up in a big way when passing the Food Safety Modernization Act on Tuesday: They added what are effectively “new taxes” into the bill, and according to the U.S. Constitution, only the House of Representatives can initiate le... -
Lexington GOP Censures Knott For “Raghead”...By Escape The Illusion on June 14, 2010 | 7 Comments
Chalk another one up for the good ole boys of the South Carolina GOP. Every time I read something about this group it feels like a slow, deep slide back to 1865. The Lexington County Republicans censured State Senator Jake Knotts Friday night for his nasty racist remarks about “ragheads.”... -
Gulf spill helps revive left-for-dead energy legislat...By Escape The Illusion on June 13, 2010 | 4 Comments
By Lisa Mascaro, Tribune Washington Bureau. Reporting from Washington — Passing a major energy bill seemed virtually impossible a few weeks ago, but Democrats, bolstered by public anger over the gulf oil spill, are pushing for legislation with renewed hope of success. A new energy bill could be sh...
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