by Bill Scher | Jul 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Romney And...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 12, 2012 | Blog
I confess, when I heard Mitt Romney would be making his official pitch for the African-American vote at the NAACP convention, I groaned. "Why, oh why couldn't it have been Newt Gingrich?" Seriously, it would have been so much more fun to watch. Or even Rick Santorum....
by Dave Johnson | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
In the news, Republicans are running ads attacking Obama for "sending taxpayer dollars" out of the country in the stimulus… They depend on the news media to cover with as a "both sides do it" story, which it will, leaving voters confused and misinformed. The...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
On Wednesday the stock market remained in the doldrums, thanks largely to the release of Federal Reserve June meeting minutes that revealed that at least some members of the Fed believed the economy needs "further policy stimulus," but the Fed nonetheless took no...
by Bill Scher | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
The booing of Mitt Romney at the NAACP convention is just the latest hilarious result of Republican presidents and presidential candidates straining to court the African-American vote at the annual event. Here's a trip down Memory Lane… 1981: President Ronald...