http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:21:36 -0700 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:49:20 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d22-Is-Americas-Middle-Class-a-powder-keg-waiting-for-a-match?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner On November 6, 2009 Jason Rodriguez  went  back to the building where he had once worked as an engineer. He opened fire killing one person and wounding five others.  From armed robberies to feed the children or pay the rent to suici... Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:49:20 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d22-Is-Americas-Middle-Class-a-powder-keg-waiting-for-a-match?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d20-The-California-water-heist-stealing-from-all-of-us?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner Should Corporations be allowed to profit from buying and selling water that belongs to all of us? California's public water utilities and resources are governed by a group of private corporations, individuals and semi-public and public officia... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:16:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d20-The-California-water-heist-stealing-from-all-of-us?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d19-I-wont-say-I-told-you-so-but-Geithner-still-needs-to-go?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner Yesterday and again today in a Congressional hearing Tim Geithner's resignation was a topic of discussion. I will say I told you so long before now. On March 23, 2009 in Toxic Assets: Geithner just put only the rich in Titanic's lifeb... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:26:28 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d19-I-wont-say-I-told-you-so-but-Geithner-still-needs-to-go?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d18-What-happened-to-the-man-of-vision-we-elected-president?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner Last week I saw where the New York Times had an editorial stating that Middle Class American wages were too high. The gist of this article was that we needed to have another 20% reduction in wages to be competitive with the rest of the world. The ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:00:32 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d18-What-happened-to-the-man-of-vision-we-elected-president?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Hungry-in-America-a-growing-problem?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner According to government statistics 49 million Americans are going hungry. What is even more heart wrenching is that 17 million of these are children.  President Obama promised during the campaign to eliminate childhood hunger in America by 20... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:44:26 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Hungry-in-America-a-growing-problem?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d15-Globalization-American-suiclde-model-of-Capitalism?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner William Pfaff is the originator of this idea that Global Capitalism, as practiced by America, is little more than national economic suicide. If only those in power making decisions had considered some of his idea's. The Corporate def... Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:59:34 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d15-Globalization-American-suiclde-model-of-Capitalism?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d12-Child-labor-Global-Capitalisms-ongoing-shame?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner So you want to talk about morality? Lets talk about the immorality of American companies that have taken jobs from Americans and gone overseas so they can pollute the atmosphere with impunity, violate workplace safety, wage and hour laws and use c... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:24:42 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d12-Child-labor-Global-Capitalisms-ongoing-shame?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Did-C-Street-Cult-influence-the-Stupak-Amendment-?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner Rachel Maddow may have been the first to ask this question but certainly won't be the last to ask, how much influence did the group, The Family,  have on Bart Stupak's ( D-MI ) authoring his anti-abortion amendment to the health ... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:48:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Did-C-Street-Cult-influence-the-Stupak-Amendment-?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d10-Drill-baby-drill-all-you-want-we-have-reached-peak-oil?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner Our political leaders are all working under a delusion that we have loads of time to begin developing alternative sources of energy. While some believe Peak Oil Theory is a mistaken theory others believe we have already reached peak oil. We live o... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:54:53 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d10-Drill-baby-drill-all-you-want-we-have-reached-peak-oil?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d9-84-of-Green-technology-jobs-being-outsourced?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner The unasked question in the whole stimulus debate is how many real jobs will go to real Americans seeking work?  According to Robert Oak of the Economic Populist and a report from American University School of Communication by Russ Choma not ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:59:48 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d9-84-of-Green-technology-jobs-being-outsourced?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d8-The-Tea-Party-Movement-Corporate-Americas-very-real-revolution?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner The Left had better wake up and smell the coffee. This isn't just a faux version of attempting to do the Right Wing version of the 1960's. This is a very real revolution.  This revolution aims at nothing less than the final corpo... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:49:51 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d8-The-Tea-Party-Movement-Corporate-Americas-very-real-revolution?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d5-The-New-York-Yankees-are-the-Goldman-Sachs-of-baseball?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner Once again we are treated to the rule of money over anything else and unfortunately it is our national past time emulating our pathetic federal government and its treatment of  Wall Street. I haven't read it and I likely won&#39... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:05:26 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d5-The-New-York-Yankees-are-the-Goldman-Sachs-of-baseball?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d4-Election-2009-Its-still-the-economy-stupid?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner GO PHILLIES iF the voters have a choice between a real Republican and a wanna be Republican in Democrats clothing, why would they vote for the wanna be? The message was not about Obama no matter what the brain dead pundits say.. This was ... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:11:30 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d4-Election-2009-Its-still-the-economy-stupid?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d3-Republicans-will-sweep-to-victory-in-off-year-elections?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner Republicans looking for reasons to cheer will have plenty to celebrate tonight. In elections that many pundits tout as a test of Obama's strength, he will have virtually no coat tail effect and his campaigning for some of the Democratic P... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:58:10 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d3-Republicans-will-sweep-to-victory-in-off-year-elections?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Dying-for-your-supper-II-USDA-recalls-546000-pounds-of-ground-beef?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner A New York company, Fairbanks Farms, was voluntarily recalling 546,000 pounds of ground beef.  Some of this companies products may be linked to two deaths and 26 people who reported E.coli like symptoms. The USDA said the meat was process... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:15:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Dying-for-your-supper-II-USDA-recalls-546000-pounds-of-ground-beef?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d1-The-second-battle-of-Blair-Mountain?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner I have written before about preservation issues. The Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia where my ancestor, James Larue McCown fought his first battle in America's Civil War is being threatened by Wal- Mart. It would seem dollars and ... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:09:01 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d1-The-second-battle-of-Blair-Mountain?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m10d30-In-the-end-Limbaugh-is-just-a-loser?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner If you missed the latest moronic outburst by Rush Limbaugh on the radio, never fear you can just go to the local bar and the guy sitting down on the end with six shots of Jack Daniels in him will give you a fairly reasonable facsimile. For ye... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:58:28 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m10d30-In-the-end-Limbaugh-is-just-a-loser?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m10d29-Fox-and-MSNBC-keeping-America-the-land-of-the-entitled-and-home-of-the-lazy?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner It is a good thing the "Baby Boom" generation wasn't the one that had to deal with both a Great Depression and World War II.  My parents generation for all their faults,  just rolled up their sleves and got to wor... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:49:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m10d29-Fox-and-MSNBC-keeping-America-the-land-of-the-entitled-and-home-of-the-lazy?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m10d28-Geithner-and-Summers-economic-plans-are-like-backyard-mechanics-tinkering-with-a-race-car?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner You have to understand the economy to know how to fix it. Geithner, Summers, Bernake and company are like back yard mechanics who have a blown engine and believe all they need to do is replace the spark plugs. The wealthiest ten percent of the... politics Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:41:05 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m10d28-Geithner-and-Summers-economic-plans-are-like-backyard-mechanics-tinkering-with-a-race-car?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Joe-Lieberman-the-only-public-option-is-to-die-quickly-and-broke?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner It wouldn't take too many more of these types of sell outs like Joe Lieberman on health care for me to start thinking like some of those Fox viewers that maybe we do need to March on Washington.  I'm fed up with being turned over... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:49:43 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-3629-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Joe-Lieberman-the-only-public-option-is-to-die-quickly-and-broke?cid=exrss-Philadelphia-Progressive-Examiner