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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Ted Cruz: Wrecking Ball

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Labels: GOP, government shutdown, ted cruz, The Tea Party

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Mash of Ted Cruz filibuster: your tax dollars at work.

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Jon Stewart's takes on Ted Cruz's filibuster. Very funny.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Ted Cruz Reads Green Eggs And Ham. Ted Cruz Filibuster

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This is another close friend from the writing world. Nicole is a wonderful writer dealing in the world of young adult fiction. She has a real flair for action and bringing that world to life. This site highly recommends this book.

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Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created ModernAmerica

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Madmen Season Five

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Out Across the Nowhere

A close personal friend of mine, a friend of the blog, who has contributed an article on nursing homes and had her fiction here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2011/08/hungry-original-fiction-that-first.html

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Amy Goodman The Silenced Majority

FDR PBS Presidents Series

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The man who broke Bush's Florida fiasco in 2000. Anything Greg Palast writes I recommend

Stop The War On Workers

Just When I Make It To The Middle Class They Eliminate It

The War On The Middle Class: The One War We're Winning

Work Hard: Wall Street Needs Your Money

Corporate Plan For America

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The Labor Movement: The folks who brought you the weekend. Bumper Sticker.

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A great movie on the modern American media

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Intelligence

I've been in class with Susan a few times. She worked for the CIA. This is an intelligent and funny book.

The Iguana Tree

I've known Michele. She is a fine writer. This is an excerpt published here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/03/angel-story-of-workers-from-south-of.html

What's The Matter With Kansas?

"Like a French Revolution in reverse-one in which the sansculottes pour down the streets demanding more power for the aristocracy-the backlash pushes the spectrum of the acceptable to the right, to the right, farther to the right." http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/06/two-quotes-from-thomas-frank-on-this.html

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