by Bill Scher | Dec 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Economy Not Ready For Austerity OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "The unemployment rate is down to 7.7 percent with 146,000 added jobs in November … which is much better than expected but hardly a clear marker … The economy still faces...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 6, 2012 | Blog
They say "walk before you run," but for politicians like Jim DeMint it's the other way around. First you run, then you walk - walk out, that is, on your commitment to serve. But DeMint's performed one public service by abandoning his post: He's given us a glimpse of a...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 6, 2012 | Blog, Education
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," has become a popular mantra of the ruling class. Of course, these are not the people who usually experience the brunt of a crisis. But a pervasive narrative in the mainstream media is that Americans are a people beset...
by Digby | Dec 6, 2012 | Blog
Nobody who reads this blog will be the least bit surprised by this turn of events: A growing chorus of Republicans is urging House leaders to abandon their staunch opposition to higher tax rates for the wealthy with the aim of clearing the way for a broad deal that...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 6, 2012 | Blog
Since the days of Lee Atwater, Republicans have relied on the politics of division and persecution fantasies. James Inhofe road into the Senate in 1994 on a platform of "God, Guns and Gays." Now? Not so much. Americans just aren't as afraid of the gays as they used...
