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Payroll Tax Cut Fails to Proceed
Boehner On Whether Letting The Payroll Tax Cut Expire Hurts The Economy: ‘I’m Not An Economist’
Mitt Romney with Fox and Friends on the Unemployment Numbers
Colbert On A Testy Mitt Romney
Gingrich Doubles Down On Child Labor: Poor Kids Should ‘Clean The Bathroom’
Newt Gingrich: "I'm Going To Be The Nominee"
Kermit the Frog To Wolf Blitzer: ‘I Have To Tell You, Newt Is From The Swamp’
Ron Paul Launches Brutal Attack on Newt Gingrich
Cain: I helped a friend in need; my wife didn’t know about it
Bachmann: Gays ‘can marry a woman if they’re a man’
Michele Bachmann Wants To Close US Embassy In Iran That’s Been Gone for 31 Years
Our Listener Tom at Occupy LA

Jobs & the Economy

Jobs Report: 140,000 private-sector jobs added; 20,000 public-sector jobs lost; Sept & Oct revised upwards by 72,000; unemployment rate drops to 8.6%
Unemployment Drops to 8.6% as Private Sector Adds Jobs
Andy Stern: The free-market fundamentalist economic model is being thrown onto the trash heap of history
Payroll Tax Cut Extension Rejected In Senate Vote; GOP wanted to slash 200K jobs
Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Consumers
Fact Check: Barack Obama says taxes are lower for middle class today than when he took office – he’s right.
Norquist Tells GOP That Raising Taxes On The Middle Class Doesn’t Count As A Tax Increase
Expiration of jobless benefits sparks debate
Ohio Gov. John Kasich Is ‘Very Pleased’ That The Auto Rescue He Originally Opposed Saved The Auto Industry
Sidebar: Guns are a big seller on Black Friday

GOP 2012

How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street by Frank Luntz
Why Republicans Embrace Simpletons and How it Hurts America
Cain Says He Aided Accuser Without Telling His Wife
Herman Cain sets Monday decision deadline
Why can’t it be Ron Paul?
Elizabeth Warren Is Pulling Ahead Of Scott Brown: Poll
Sidebar: House Votes To End Public Funding Of Presidential Campaigns

The Occupation

Occupy protesters disrupt Cain event
Protesters greet CEO of Wells Fargo at NCSU
Cops Invade Occupy Boston To Seize Its Sink
Civil rights lawyers move to fight Occupy evictions nationwide

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They're Killing you Glenn Beck...

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Occupy Oakland, who's REALLY responsible for the violence?

Randi Rhodes interviews Alternet's Joshua Holland as they take issue with who's to blame for the escalation of violence at Occupy Oakland with over the top police tactics. Robocops clad in riot gear lobbing tear gas canister's into the heads of protestors doesn't happen by accident, someone ordered these officers to take a hyper-aggressive approach - versus having unarmed cops on 10 speed bikes in shorts to handle peaceful protestors. Unlike TeaParty protestors who were making threats while strapped in rifles.

While some police departments have no problems with the Occupy protesters, others - like Oakland, Denver, Atlanta, and New York - have already attacked Occupiers. Long before any of the violence on the streets started at any of the Occupy rallies and marches, a serious of meetings and decisions were made in Mayor's and Governor's offices across the country - and many of these chief executives weren't looking to avoid conflict.

Journalist Joshua Holland, of Alternet, was at Occupy Oakland during one of the recent unfounded attacks by the police He detailed what he saw, what he didn't see, and what - if anything - the government, the police, and the protesters can do to make sure that no one crosses the wrong line...

Bo to the link below for a great interview on a subject that's not getting nearly enough coverage...

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GRAPHS: Inequality And The Truth

Want to upset your conservative friends who deny there's an inequality problem in America? This is the graph for you. Of course, they're also partly right…

As Derek Thompson of The Atlantic recently published, the income inequality in America isn't a myth, as some on the right think it is. As Thompson points out about our current income inequalities, "The upshot is that the average 99th percenter makes more in a year than somebody in the bottom quintile would make in 150 years." His chart reflects an uncomfortable reality most conservatives would rather ignore.



Of course, as Thompson also notes, the top one percent pays four time mores than the bottom forty percent in federal income taxes - something that tends to upset some on the left.

Thompson isn't the only one who's been debating whether economic inequality even exists lately. Jonathan Chait in New York magazine points out several blowhards and experts from different sides who've been battling over this issue lately.

Chait gets the last word in this debate, however, as he also points out that even if you're right, "[debunking] some blowhard isn’t going to make the blowhard admit he’s wrong."

It's still good to know you're right though, isn't it?

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