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Part One: FEMA and Disaster – a Look at What Worked and What Didn’t From a FEMA Insider
An Urban Search and Rescue Team bring victims of the flood waters of New Orleans to dry land by boat, August 30, 2005. (Photo: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA ) …
Tea Partying Like It’s 1954
In the early fifties, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) used his position to smear establishment Americans as agents of the Soviet threat. (Photo: History In An Hour) The …
The Debt-Ceiling Debate: An Orwellian Affair
It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to avoid a state of nausea whenever I turn on my television. The ongoing debate over the national deficit and the much fraught …
Forget Compromise: The Debt Ceiling Is Unconstitutional
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) delivers a Republican response to President Barack Obama's speech on the national debt at the Capitol in Washington, April 13, 2011. President Obama …
Mainstream Reporters: Too Close to the Field to Get the Debt Story
(Photo: Sergio Alvarez / Flickr) If you were a spectator in a sky box seat looking directly down on the Washington debt debate, you’d be seeing a …
The $1 Trillion Debt Ceiling Deal of July 31
On Sunday evening, President Obama and Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, announced they had reached an agreement on cutting $1 trillion in spending in …
Will the US Credit Rating Be Downgraded?
As we get the final details of the debt ceiling deal between President Obama and Congress, we still have to wait for the verdict of the credit rating agencies. …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Gives in to Right-Wing Hostage Takers, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
Congressional Republicans Hack Away at Medicaid While the Rich Hollow It Out From the Inside
From left: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) after a Republican response to President Barack Obama's speech on the national debt at the Capitol …
Norway Sounds Alarm Bells About Growing Right-Wing in Europe
Surrounding a statue of former Prime Minister Christian Michelsen, a memorial of flowers and candles was made to honor the victims killed in an act of domestic terrorism last …