by Bill Scher | Jun 19, 2012 | Blog
Conservatives have long sought to condemn the Recovery Act by claiming it failed to prevent unemployment from going higher than 8% as the White House projected. This is silly because the White House projection was made in January 2009, and unemployment lept to 8.3% in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 19, 2012 | Blog
What is now more clear than ever is that building a progressive political force is a 24/7/365 effort. It's not just work to be done during election cycles, and not just done in presidential and congressional elections. Tuesday morning at the Take Back the American...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 19, 2012 | Blog, Economy
It seems like just yesterday Mitt Romney released his 59-page "plan for jobs and economic growth." That's because it practically was just yesterday. Romney released "Believe in America: Mitt Romney's Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth," around the beginning of...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 19, 2012 | Blog
In American politics, especially in post-9/11 politics, what most desperately needs saying is often banished to the realm of the unsayable. It's either too impolite or too impolitic to utter. This tends to apply more to the left than the right. Almost nothing's...
