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Posts published in January 2014

Marianne Williamson Statement on the Future of Her Campaign for Congress

Dear friends,

The political world was atwitter yesterday over the retirement of Congressman Henry Waxman, who announced he will not run for reelection. Mr. Waxman has had a long and illustrious career as a Congressman, and I join with others in my sincere best wishes for the next phase of his life and career.…

Dennis Spisak on Child Poverty

Submitted to IPR via Facebook

What can we say about Democrats and Republicans being in charge of this state and country? Well, for one thing, we now see a rise in children poverty thanks to their leadership and policies.…

Jim Cook: Americans Elect Leader Starts Whispering about 2016 with Reference to Teddy Roosevelt

Jim Cook at Irreguar Times:

In the leadup to 2008 and 2012, the effort to elect a corporate presidential candidate through a privatized, corporate-controlled election began with a series of planted letters to the editor or op-ed pieces or TV interviews in which “opinion leaders” spoke of supposed “centrist” yearnings in the heartland and their discovery of the exciting new “grassroots” movement called Unity08 (in 2008) or Americans Elect (in 2012).…

Independent gubernatorial hopeful Evan Falchuk says campaign has grown significantly while crisscrossing Massachusetts

Evan Falhuk

(The following story was originally published on MassLive)

SPRINGFIELD — As Evan Falchuk has spent his days and nights crisscrossing Massachusetts talking to voters and listening to their concerns, he says his campaign for governor has grown by leaps and bounds, swelling to hundreds of volunteers in addition to his full-time staff.…

Ben Manski: The Shriveling State of the Union

The Republicans are right when they they point to America’s 25+ million jobless and ask whether the President is serious in proposing job training as his primary remedy.…