Why Does the GOP Hide Its Agenda?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 27th, 2011 5:29 am by HL
Why Does the GOP Hide Its Agenda?
Joan Walsh, Salon
Prepared for President Obama to give a “centrist” State of the Union address to prove he can work with intransigent Republicans, I was pleasantly surprised. They may be small things, but a few points stood out. I was happy he pledged that “we simply cannot afford a permanent extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans,” adding “Before we take money away from our schools, or scholarships away from our students, we should ask millionaires to give up their tax break.”
Where Will the Money Come From?
Moscow’s Silent War Explodes
Austin Bay, San Antonio Express-News
First Tunisia, Now Egypt?
Mona Eltahawy, Washington Post
To understand what drove tens of thousands of Egyptians to erupt Tuesday in the largest protests in a generation against President Hosni Mubarak, you only had to see one photo of events in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, a Nile Delta factory city where an estimated 5,000 people turned out.Some images from Tuesday show Egyptian police beating unarmed protesters and throwing rocks at them (sadly, an increasingly common tactic).
