Blogging for the 99% and the preservation of our Democracy against the Corporatists and the Citizens United ruling.
It’s so hilarious to listen to the pundits stressing out over the fact that there is not one single set of demands from the Occupy Wall Street movement. Well, I remember the Tea Party, and I have kept the photos of those marches displayed in online reporting on the Tea Party gatherings.
While the pundits remember the Tea Party after it was fully established, the Tea Party wasn’t exactly... 
When the markets closed after news of the debt deal signing, the Dow Jones had dropped 265.87 points, or 2.19 percent, the biggest sell off in two years. This followed Boehner’s boasting that he got 98% of what he wanted in the negotiations. I don’t doubt it at all.
The market today accurately predicts the state of the economy six months from now. Why? Is the stock market prescient?... 
Yes, it’s a snow day here in Wisconsin, but a “Winter Storm Warning” should have been declared the moment that Scott Walker took office. His first acts were to take a budget surplus and give away so much to his wealthy corporate supporters, that a budget deficit existed. Even this deficit did not rise to the level of a mandated “Budget Repair Bill”, but wrapping himself in... 
We all heard that Obama said that even his Administration was guilty of being “too cozy” with the oil superpowers that were supposed to be regulated by the U.S. government, not coddled and fawned over.
We also know that BP had no environmental impact plan, except to say that it was “inconceivable”. It would be funny to relate that back to the movie “The Princess Bride”, which remarked on the... 
There has been much talk about why the Big Oil corporations have run rough-shod over American environmental concerns. We know that Big Oil literally owns many members of Congress. We know that Bush stopped any regulation of the oil industries during his eight years in office. The only push-back during the Bush years when it was found that oil company lobbyists and the government regulators were... 