Today's post is written by CLN's Senior Editor, L. David Sikes. Mr. Sikes is a businessman and former public company CEO, serving on several boards of start-up companies. He has a keen interest in left-of-center politics, and provides comedic insight and unique perspective to Center Left Nation. SPRINGING OUT OF POVERTY by L. David Sikes Newt Gingrich has come up with what I think is on ...

Soooo, low taxes for the wealthy on their capital gains, estate inheritance, and all that carried interest falderal, are supposed to be GOOD for our economy. Good, the already-wealthy tell us, because rich folks will INVEST all that money (that they save by not having to pay equivalent taxes as the rest of us) in the economy. And the result of this investment will be a boon for everyone because i ...

Five of the existing and former GOP presidential candidates support policies that would make many forms of birth control illegal. Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Ron Paul have all signed on to the "Personhood Amendment" which would declare a fertilized egg, that has not implanted in the uterus, is a full person. Even Mitt Romney said in a Fox News interview with M ...

Thought we all needed a giggle this evening!

Maybe we ARE getting our message out!

The Bush tax cuts have devastated our national budget. Taxes have now fallen nearly 20 percent below the nation's historical average. GOP Bruce Bartlett, from the Reagan administration, says "Taxes are ridiculously low, and yet the mantra of the Republican Party is 'Tax cuts raise growth.' So – where's the f-ing growth?" According to former Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffe, now Governor o ...

The political parties are realigning once again. As the old Dixiecrat Democrats once left the Dems and moved to the GOP when the Civil Rights law was passed, and as the Black minority moved from its traditional Republican Party affiliation (that began under Republican President Lincoln) to the Democratic Party, we are now again seeing shifting political alliances in our country. Today's older ...

Here's the evidence. Since the 1960s corporate profits are at an all time high; wages are at an all time low; corporate taxes are at an all time low; and personal taxes are close to an all time low. RECAP: Corporations are swimming in money, while wages are at rock bottom. And taxes are so low that our country struggles to pay our bills. GOP SOLUTION: Why, of course their economic fix is ...

The Republicans' Super Committee Plan offers a whopping 0.5% in new taxes to help balance our federal budget! Wow ... 1/2 of one percent. (See tiny sliver marked "Tax revenue" on the Republican proposal.) Oh, and yeah ... take a look at WHICH party has a larger debt reduction plan? Hmmm, there's $1.06 Trillion MORE debt cutting in the Democrats' proposal than in the "fiscally responsible ...

Concentrated wealth in the hands of the few not only skews the economy and produces inequality, but it also undermines our democracy. This concentrated wealth leads to overwhelming political power by influencing elections, setting legislative priorities, and pressing for judicial ruleings that favor corporations and the already wealthy. And all this concentrated political power by the few leads ...