by Richard Eskow | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog
David Corn at Mother Jones has released another Romney video. This one's from a Bain Capital meeting in 1985 in which Romney says Bain's business model is to acquire companies and then "harvest them at a significant profit" in five to eight years. The word "harvest"...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog
Get the word out. The movie Won't Back Down is another propaganda product of the corporate/conservative machine, put in theaters to get you to support union busting and school privatization. Over at the Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch, Mary Bottari writes in...
by Bill Scher | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog
Earlier this week, The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza wrote a piece that began with what was intended as a rhetorical question: "Quick, name President Obama’s best moment in the 2012 campaign so far? What about Mitt Romney’s high point?" Cillizza was trying to...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog
It's one of the dumbest, most insulting, dismissive, and frequently heard bits of rhetoric spewed forth from the sneering mouths of conservative pundits and politicos. So, it stands to reason that congressional Republicans would like to make it the law of the land....
by Dave Johnson | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog
The Department of Labor has announced a new "Make it in America Challenge" to American businesses, to "to accelerate the trend of insourcing, where companies are bringing jobs back and making additional investments here in America." The challenge is a national...