by Jeff Bryant | Mar 2, 2012 | Blog, Education
This week the US House of Representatives, with bipartisan support, passed a bill, H.R. 2117, with the misleading title of The Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act. The title is misleading because the bill has absolutely nothing to do with "protecting...
by Bill Scher | Mar 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Who Is Keeping DeMarco In Charge Of Housing? OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "George W. Bush brought a far-right ideologue named Edward DeMarco into the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which controls Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and therefore has power...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 2, 2012 | Blog
Republicans love to say that nothing's more important cutting the Federal deficit. So why is Sen. Richard Shelby wasting $28 billion of taxpayer money? Shelby's used parliamentary tricks to put more than half of the nation's mortgages under the rule of an unelected...