The Last Days of the President | The Atlantic | 1973

Johnson had decidedly mixed emotions about his successor. He was puzzled by Nixon's cold style ("Imagine not inviting one member of Congress to Tricia's wedding. If you don't respect them, they won't respect you") and aghast at some of Nixon's domestic policies. Shortly after leaving the White House, he remarked to a Texas businessman: "When I took over the presidency, Jack Kennedy had left me a stock market of 711. When I left the White House, it was over 900. Now look at it. That's what happens when the Republicans take over—not only Nixon, but any of them. They simply don't know how to manage the economy. They're so busy operating the trickle-down theory, giving the richest corporations the biggest break, that the whole thing goes to hell in a handbasket."

Paul Krugman: Prisons, Privatization, Patronage

Paul Krugman: "So let’s see: Privatized prisons save money by employing fewer guards and other workers, and by paying them badly. And then we get horror stories about how these prisons are run. What a surprise! So what’s really behind the drive to privatize prisons, and just about everything else? One answer is that privatization can serve as a stealth form of government borrowing, in which governments avoid recording upfront expenses (or even raise money by selling existing facilities) while raising their long-run costs in ways taxpayers can’t see." Read it here:

Bill Moyers with Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith on the Banks - The Psychopathy of Wall Street

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Clinical diagnosis (PCLR) of personality of corporation

Opinions by Dr. Robert D. Hare, Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker.

Paul Krugman's solution to getting fiscal stimulus | PBS News Hour

18 June 2012 Amid a tough economy, economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has probably captured as much attention -- and notoriety -- as anyone else in his field. Part of his Making Sen$e of financial news series, Paul Solman speaks with Krugman whose new book "End This Depression Now" suggests some radical policy-making. -

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Obama elevates amid disrespect

President Obama announced a new policy on immigration today, saying the government would stop deporting some children of illegal immigrants. The President's speech was interrupted at one point by Neil Munroe, a blogger for Tucker Carlson's website, the Daily Caller. Watch it.

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations". - George Orwell

Marty Kaplan on Big Money’s effect on Big Media

27 April 2012 Bill Moyers talks with Kaplan about how taking news out of the journalism box and placing it in the entertainment box is hurting democracy and allowing special interest groups to manipulate the system.

Delbert McClinton - "Giving It Up For Your Love"

Ed Schultz and Bernie Sanders discuss the GOP war on the US Postal Service

4 April 2012

Michael D Higgins on the banks bail out

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Bernie Sanders: "Break up the big banks"

James Lipton critiques Mitt Romney

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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Wall Street greed

14 May 2012 | The Ed Show | MSNBC

ZZ Top Live at Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010

Waiting For The Bus and Jesus Just Left Chicago

Texas Tribune: State Senator Wendy Davis on the SD-10 Race, by Evan Smith

19 April 2012 State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, talked about why she thinks she can get re-elected in a GOP district — and why the liberal label doesn't fit.

"Let America Be America Again," by Langston Hughes

First published in Esquire magazine, 1936, from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Knopf), ed. Arnold Rampersad, with David Roessel

Robert Reich on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart discussing his eBook 'Beyond Outrage'

19 April 2012

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Bill Moyers essay: It pays to be rich

Published on Apr 13, 2012 by MoyersandCompany With help from the government, the tax code, and their own money, there's no limit to how rich the super-rich aim to be -- disconnecting themselves further and further from the American people as a result. Bill Moyers examines the gap.

Presidents Reagan and Obama support Buffett Rule

Reagan and Obama form an unlikely alliance to make sure bosses don't pay lower taxes than their secretaries. They are opposed by Mitt Romney and the GOP of 2012.