by Digby | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog
Josh Holland has a nice succinct rundown on the possible roadblocks to the immigration reform effort. It's a little bit more complicated than it seems at first: [C]onventional wisdom may be underestimating the degree of fractiousness that defines the conservative...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 30, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America
Now that he is a freshman senator, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy says he plans in the coming weeks to continue the push he started as a member of the House to advance a "Make It in America" jobs agenda. That agenda includes cracking down on China's currency...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 30, 2013 | Conservatism, Financial Reform
In Part 1 of this series, I wrote that Republicans who were incensed that President Obama had nothing to say to them in his inaugural address should be far more worried the possibility that the president realizes he doesn't need to spend time and energy reaching out...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Day of Action Against Poverty – And The Assault Against The Poor OurFuture.org's Isaiah J. Poole: "An effort to move the fight against poverty to the top of the national agenda begins today, led by the Half in 10 campaign and the Coalition...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 30, 2013 | The Sequester
An effort to move the fight against poverty to the top of the national agenda begins today, led by the Half in 10 campaign and the Coalition for Human Needs. The major campaign goal is to persuade President Obama to talk about poverty and its solutions in his State of...
