by Bill Scher | Feb 22, 2007 | Blog
Prolific and incisive filmmaker Robert Greenwald today launched the FoxAttacks website and unveiled an online video exposing Fox News's efforts to smear Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama as he is being introduced to voters nationwide. For Greenwald,...
by Bill Scher | Feb 21, 2007 | Blog
Most of the media saw today's report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and concluded the headline was that overall health care spending continues to rise. Not the Washington Post. It's headline? "Medicare Benefit Appears to Slow Spending Growth on...
by Bill Scher | Feb 21, 2007 | Blog
The NY Times reports today that the European Union will cut greenhouse gas emissions 30% by 2020, if the US will too. Obviously, the EU knows that President Bush won't bite, and if you read between the lines of the NYT piece, it would seem the offer is a way to gloss...
by Bill Scher | Feb 20, 2007 | Blog
Roll Call reports today: Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has warned that he may block a House-Senate conference on the minimum-wage bill unless he is assured his Democratic colleagues will join him in demanding inclusion of a sizable tax-cut...
by Bill Scher | Feb 20, 2007 | Blog
The following was written by Campaign for America's Future Co-Director Roger Hickey and Online Editor Bill Scher The health care debate has leapt forward in the last few weeks. After the bold health care plan from John Edwards, and the new business-labor coalition...
