Oh, are we getting ripped off. And now we’ve got the data to prove it. From 2009 to 2011, the richest 8 million families (the top 7%) on average saw their wealth rise from $1.7 million to $2.5 million each. Meanwhile the rest of us – the bottom 93% (that’s 111 million families) — suffered on average a decline of $6,000 each.
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Alabama lawyer Jim Porter will replace current NRA President David Keene. Porter, a conspiracy theorist who calls the Civil War the “War of Northern Aggression”, is the son of the man who chaired the 1977 annual meeting at which hardliners took over the organization and began transforming it into the no-compromise lobbying powerhouse the group remains today. He believes U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is “rabidly un-American” and that Hillary Clinton tried to help Holder “kill the Second Amendment at the United Nations”. He believes President Obama wants “European style Socialism”. He also plans on letting Wayne LaPierre continue to be “the face of the organization”. The more things change…
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Our favorite blogger is back in the ring to weigh in on why Rand Paul might herald the end of the Republican party! Plus, Dave Zirin returns to tell us how the sports establishment took him by surprise after NBA player Jason Collins became the first openly gay athlete in one of the four U.S. pro sports leagues. We’ll also get Mark Walsh’s reaction to his former colleague Steve Case’s interview in the New York Times (read it here), and we’ll try to find out just how serious the right wing nuts are when they confess to gunning for an armed insurrection against the U.S. government.
Jeff Duncan, R-Dumbass, author of the recent bill to prevent the government from collecting data about the economy.
Communications expert Susan Crawford is in the ring to tell us how we became a Captive Audience to the biggest telecommunications monopolies in the world, and how we can recapture the regulatory ideal. With Dave Goodfriend, Mark Walsh, Jon Aberman and Dave Zirin.
Our favorite Progressive magazine editor is back in the ring to weigh in on the need for sanity in the aftermath of an insane week. Plus, the president of Marymount University in Arlington is in the ring to school us on what’s at stake in higher education! All this and more, with “Mad Mark” Walsh and “Jabber Jon” Aberman.
Daily Mirror columnist John Prescott sums up Margaret Thatcher’s legacy just the way he says she would have wanted him to: coldly and dispassionately. Read it all here.
De-fund the public school system? End collective bargaining? Undermine the Affordable Care Act? End class action lawsuits by citizens taking on corporations? It’s all on the agenda for Arizona’s ALEC funded state legislators. Seventeen bills introduced in the Arizona legislature in 2013 can be tied to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and every member of the Republican leadership in the state are current or recent ALEC members, according to a new report from the Center for Media and Democracy and its allies“ALEC in Arizona: The Voice Of Corporate Special Interests In The Halls Of Arizona’s Legislature.”
Our favorite no-bullshit uber-journalist is back in the ring hot off the presses at Rolling Stone Magazine with his latest expose of yet another f*ck-tard of the finance world! Plus, Goodfriend goes gonzo at tax time! Left Jab host emeritus Dave Goodfriend is back in the ring to take a swing at our tax code. With Dave Zirin, Mark Walsh and Jonathan Aberman.
Jab Room regular Thomas Frank is back in the ring to tell us how Hollywood keeps getting it wrong when it comes to Washington. Plus, our favorite blogger, Bill Scher, returns to weigh in on why our President doesn’t need a Grand Bargain. And Jennifer Ives, Director of Business Investment in Arlington, is in the ring to tell us how government-funded technology plays a crucial role in industrial development. All this and more!
As technologies become more advanced and the scientific and engineering knowhow required to develop new industries become more demanding, a failure to focus on innovation may result in a nation that is economically irrelevant. So says “Left Jab” host Jon Aberman in his latest installment on HuffPost. Read it here!
June 3rd, 2013
The Jab Room’s resident social gadfly, Thomas Frank, is back to take a swing at the “Literature of Creativity” and what it can teach us about the ownership of ideas. Plus, historian Patrick McCray is in the ring to tell us how The Visioneers of emerging technologies navigate the shifting landscapes of the present and future! All this and more, with Dave Zirin on sports.
...and people who use food stamps are "takers"?!
May 19th, 2013
Reporter Kim Barker has spent years investigating social welfare nonprofits and the “Dark Money” that feeds them. She’s in the Jab Room to tell us how the IRS haters have finally managed to swallow their own tale and called it a scandal. Plus, U.S. historian and independent journalist Allen Ruff is in the ring to weigh in on what’s fact and fiction at home and abroad. All this and more, with Dave Zirin on sports!
