by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog
The Heritage Foundation today spread a falsehood about a change the Obama administration is instituting in the 1996 welfare reform law that has rapidly spread through the right-wing blogosphere. Letting Heritage and the right wing get away with this lie would do...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog
If your neighbor’s house is on fire, you don’t haggle over the price of your garden hose. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt I wasn’t planning on writing about this today, but take a moment to Andrew Leonard’s Salon piece, "Thank God for Taxes." Read it from beginning to...
by Bill Scher | Jul 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Where's The Media on Bain? OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Back when Bill Clinton was President there was a huge media-swarm controversy because a decade before her husband was elected Hillary Clinton had made $100,000 over ten months by investing in...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog
If only. If only Brian Moynihan designed fashionable shoes, Jamie Dimon pitched a mean slider, and Lloyd Blankfein had written the song "Boyfriend" for Justin Bieber. Then they'd prosecute bank fraud. The Justice Department used as many people to investigate one...