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GOP Presidential Contender Herman Cain Takes Lead In Second Poll

Posted on October 14, 2011October 14, 2011 by TRP

“Fueled by Tea Party supporters, conservatives and high-interest GOP primary voters, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain now leads the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll,” NBC News deputy political director Mark Murry reports. He says that: “Cain checks in as the first choice of 27…

Reporter Ejected From Jeb Bush’s Ed Summit for Asking About Rupert Murdoch

Posted on October 14, 2011 by TRP

During the Q&A session, Steve Begley, a blogger from the K-12 News Network, asked Klein about what Murdoch had in mind for his foray into the education business, which Murdoch has said is a $500 billion market largely untapped by the corporate world. After noting Klein’s $4.5 million annual compensation, Begley asked him what sort…

Our health-care productivity problem, in one chart

Posted on October 14, 2011 by TRP

For months now, the health sector has led the economy in job creation, producing more than 300,000 more jobs since this time last year. Even as overall job creation sputtered last month, the health sector added 44,000 new positions. But health-care job growth isn’t necessarily a good thing, at least when it comes to controlling…

McCain vows to nullify defense cuts if they’re triggered

Posted on October 14, 2011 by TRP

“If there’s a failure on the part of the supercommittee, we will be among the first on the floor to nullify that provision. Congress is not bound by this. If something is passed, we can reverse it,” McCain responded. But then what’s the purpose of creating a trigger, if Congress can simply overturn the budget…

Fact Check: Mayor Menino Falsely Claims Arrested Occupy Boston Members Are ‘Outsiders’ From ‘Another Country’

Posted on October 14, 2011 by TRP

    On early Tuesday morning, Boston police violently arrested 141 members of Occupy Boston for expanding their peaceable assembly to a new encampment without city authorization. The number of activists participating in the occupation of the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the heart of Boston’s financial district has steadily grown since the beginning of October,…

Poll: Support For Death Penalty At 39-Year Low

Posted on October 14, 2011October 14, 2011 by TRP

    A Gallup poll released today found support for the death penalty in the United States is at a 39-year low. As Gallup reports, “this is the lowest level of support since 1972, the year the Supreme Court voided all existing state death penalty laws in Furman v. Georgia.” via Poll: Support For Death…

Occupy Wall Street: Zuccotti Park Cleanup Called Off, Say NY Officials

Posted on October 14, 2011 by TRP

    The cleanup of a plaza in lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending cheers up from a crowd that had feared the effort was merely a pretext to evict them. Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said the owners of the private park, Brookfield Office Properties,…

Telemundo Holding First GOP Debate

Posted on October 14, 2011 by TRP

Spanish-language Telemundo network announced Thursday it will host its first presidential primary debate in December. The Republican primary debate will be held in Las Vegas and comes weeks before the early primaries begin. The locale is key, as Nevada is one of two early primary states with a growing number of Latino voters. Florida is…

Occupy Detroit plans march today

Posted on October 14, 2011 by TRP

  Protesters are gearing up for a march and occupation of Detroit today, which could last for 60 days.The Occupy Detroit group — inspired by the protests on Wall Street seeking social, political and economic change — plans to meet at 4 p.m. today at the Spirit of Detroit statute on Woodward. The group will…

Occupy Wall Street vs. The Arab Spring

Posted on October 13, 2011October 13, 2011 by TRP

A short film juxtaposing the two movements, with words from our leaders.

Alabama Immigration Law: Protesters Stage Work Stoppages, Shut Down Businesses

Posted on October 13, 2011 by TRP

    At least a half-dozen poultry plants shut down or scaled back operations Wednesday and many other businesses closed as Hispanics in Alabama skipped work to protest the state’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law. The work stoppage was aimed at demonstrating the economic contribution of Alabama’s Hispanic immigrants. It was unclear exactly how widespread the protests…

RIP, American Jobs Act

Posted on October 13, 2011 by TRP

President Obama’s jobs bill, as written, died a predictable death in the Senate last night. Democrats were able to muster fifty-one votes for passage, but that’s well short of the sixty needed to overcome a Republican filibuster. The New York Times called the vote both a “major” and “significant” setback for Obama in this morning’s…

Fox News Poll Backfires: 70 Percent Support Occupy Wall Street | ThinkProgress

Posted on October 13, 2011October 13, 2011 by TRP

Fox News is running a poll on their website asking readers if the 99 Percent movement represents their views on the economy. In a move that likely surprised the network — which has consistently belittled, smeared, distorted, and otherwise dismissed the protests — the vast majority of respondents, many of whom are likely Fox viewers,…

Flood-Gate: Perry Officials Try to Hide Sea Level Rise from Texans with “Clear-Cut Unadulterated Censorship”

Posted on October 13, 2011October 13, 2011 by TRP

    In one of the most flagrant recent instances of scientific censorship, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) refused to publish a report chapter unless all mention of climate change and its impact on sea level rise were eliminated.  The author — Rice University oceanographer John Anderson, a leading expert on sea level…

Poll: Herman Cain Leads Mitt Romney By 8 Points

Posted on October 13, 2011October 13, 2011 by TRP

Herman Cain appears to be the latest Tea Party sensation. A new poll from Public Policy Polling has the one-time Godfather’s Pizza CEO leading Mitt Romney by eight percentage points, 30 percent to 22 percent. Those are the exact same percentages the very same polling outfit reported yesterday for Cain and Romney in Iowa where…

Obama’s Failing E-mails: Where Did the President’s Mojo Go?

Posted on October 13, 2011 by TRP

Here’s the thing I’m starting to think Obama never understood: yes, for most of us the 2008 campaign was partly about him, but it was more about the campaign itself—about the sudden feeling of power that gripped a web-enabled populace, who felt themselves able to really, truly hope. Hope that maybe they’d found a candidate…

It’s the Inequality, Stupid | Mother Jones

Posted on October 12, 2011October 12, 2011 by TRP

A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244.     via It’s the Inequality, Stupid | Mother Jones.  

Millionaire tax would pay for Obama jobs bill, CBO says – Oct. 7, 2011

Posted on October 12, 2011 by TRP

The Democrats’ proposed tax on millionaires would raise an estimated $453 billion, more than enough to pay for President Obama’s jobs bill. That’s the latest from the Congressional Budget Office, which on Friday released its cost and revenue estimates for the American Jobs Act of 2011. The bill calls for $447 billion in new and…

Republican Presidential Debate Turns Into Strange Faculty Lounge

Posted on October 12, 2011October 12, 2011 by TRP

Charlie Rose’s famous oak table ended up looking like the faculty lounge of the world’s strangest economics department. On speed. Rick Santorum wants to “beat” China. Mitt Romney warns that “if you don’t stand up to China, you will be run over by China.” Herman Cain denies that the criticism of his “9-9-9” plan’s arithmetic…

Debate In 100 Seconds: Repeal Everything!

Posted on October 12, 2011 by TRP

The Republican presidential candidates gathered in New Hampshire to come up with bold solutions for solving the American economy. What did they come up with? Repeal Everything! Oh, and jail Barney Frank.   via Debate In 100 Seconds: Repeal Everything! | Election 2012.

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