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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Today Republicans in the House will bring up a bill to raise the limit on the national debt, a move required before the government can borrow any more money to finance its operations. Actually, we reached the debt limit a couple of weeks ago, but the Secretary of the Treasury authorized […]

Posted on May 31st, 2011 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Coming home from where I go Sunday mornings, I listen to a replay of Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion.” Yesterday he sang the Civil War song “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,” by Walter Kittredge.  I sang along and, for the first time, I listened to the words I was […]

Posted on May 30th, 2011 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: American Wars | 1 Comment »

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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Rebekah used to live in the next town south of mine. I’ve never met her, but I know her mother, which probably is how Rebekah got to me in the first place. That was in 2008, when she set out to organize people around the world to stop and sing for […]

Posted on May 24th, 2011 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson This comes from MoveOn.  The video runs 2 minutes and 12 seconds and is packed with information that’s important to everyone who cares about the future of health care for people under 55.  In case you don’t recognize the name: Robert Reich knows a thing or two about the economy, having […]

Posted on May 23rd, 2011 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson The last time we saw the sun around here was on the morning of Friday, May 13. Rain started in the afternoon. Since then, we’ve had a succession of rain showers and deluges, with daytime skies ranging from silver to pewter to lead (the metal, I mean), but no sun. There’s […]

Posted on May 18th, 2011 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Climate Change, Environment | 2 Comments »

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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson The people who want to break the back of the labor movement call the legislation they’re pushing a “right-to-work” law. They’re so cute, those Right-wingicans. Stuff enough money in their campaign stash and they’ll call a turd an orchid – and try to pass a law to make you call it […]

Posted on May 12th, 2011 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Labor, Union busting | No Comments »

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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson The way the story goes, a man fell off the observation deck of a 50-story skyscraper. Each time he passed another floor he reassured himself, “So far, so good.” That would make a great campaign slogan for the national Republican Party, heading into the 2012 elections. If I were a Democrat […]

Posted on May 11th, 2011 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Economy, Election 2012 | No Comments »

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Once in a while I come across a blog post so powerful that I can’t just condense and link to it. It has to be seen in full. This is one of those posts. Enough About Osama Bin Laden. When Will Wall Street Crooks Go To Jail? Where Are The Jobs? by: Hillbilly Sat May […]

Posted on May 9th, 2011 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Jobs, Taxes | 1 Comment »

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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Clearly, members of the tone-deaf House Republican leadership got their ears unblocked by constituents during Congress’s Easter Recess. The evidence: Both Finance Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), previously self-appointed experts on what “The American People” want, discovered that said people are not nearly as enthusiastic […]

Posted on May 5th, 2011 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Economy, Election 2012, Federal Budget | No Comments »

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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Here we have a photo of some of the 130,000 acres the Army Corps of Engineers has flooded. The Corps blew up portions of a levee to protect the town of Cairo, Illinois, which sits at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The rivers were threatening to flood the […]

Posted on May 4th, 2011 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture | 2 Comments »