by Robert Borosage | Jun 18, 2008 | Blog
America's banker isn't happy. At the World Trade Organization, China's representatives call on the U.S. to halt the decline of the dollar that has contributed to the rising price of food and oil (and racked up staggering losses in the value to China's $1.5 trillion in...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 18, 2008 | Blog
First John McCain, then Newt Gingrich, and now president Bush — in an apparent about-face that puts him in the position of opposing both his father and his brother — has taken to peddling offshore drilling as the quickest way to ease consumer pain at the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 17, 2008 | Blog
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is spearheading a new campaign that obscures the facts about the practical impact of opening up new lands to oil drilling. You may have already seen the ads while surfing the Web: "Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less." Don't be fooled....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 17, 2008 | Blog
The propaganda machine supporting school vouchers, headquartered in the office of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, is determined not to let the facts get in the way of conservative ideological spin. The press release for a report released Monday on the D.C....
by Bill Scher | Jun 17, 2008 | Blog
As Sen. John McCain gears up to give a speech in Houston, repeating his call to lift the moratorium on most drilling off America's shores, MSNBC's First Read suggests, "McCain’s call for lifting the ban could ... be seen as a pragmatic, short-term solution to high...
