by Richard Eskow | Jan 18, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney probably pays a lower percentage of Federal income tax than you do. At a press conference today, Romney said that the effective rate he's been paying is "probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything."1 Mitt makes out like a bandit because capital...
by Mary Bottari | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog
The petition drive to recall and remove Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has surpassed all expectations, collecting one million signatures in just 60 days. The signatures represent the largest recall effort in the history of the United States.Petitioners were only...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
The United States is losing ever more jobs and becoming ever less competitive as our universities are cut back and companies move R&D jobs to Asia. We lost 687,000 high-tech manufacturing jobs lost since 2000. Universities cut back 20% on public research. 85% of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog
In the fight over what little soul is left of the Republican Party, Mitt Romney has shown his willingness to double down on racial injustice. Romney did so in his support for the expansion of laws that deny people convicted of felonies the right to vote after they...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog
Congress is back in session and Republicans are right back to shutdown threats. Once again Republicans are trying to use shutdown threats to bust unions (the 99%), once again doing it for pay, for a specific company (the 1%). Funding for the Federal Aviation...
