by Bill Scher | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday, Slate columnist Aisha Harris made the case for depicting Santa Claus as a penguin instead of a white man to "spare millions of nonwhite kids the insecurity and shame that I remember from childhood." On Wednesday, Fox News' Megyn Kelly retorted that "Santa...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 12, 2013 | Retirement Security
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep,” the William Butler Yeats poem begins, “And nodding by the fire …” Our culture has always been emotional – sentimental, even – about old age. So when did older people become The Enemy? Last week a judge ruled that Detroit...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 12, 2013 | Budget Talks, Unemployment Benefits
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today said that continuing extended unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed will be the first order of business in the Senate when it returns after Congress' Christmas vacation. Good, but not good enough for the 1.3 million...
by Bill Scher | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Source: National Review The Murray-Ryan budget deal neither maintains nor repeals the sequester. Instead, as you can see in the chart above, it creates a kindler, gentler sequester. The original sequester drove the budget baseline down to a low point in 2014, then...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Austerity is holding back our economy -- and that's the plan. There is simply no other way to explain it. Republicans know voters blame (or credit) the party of the President for the economy, and they are doing everything they can to make things as bad as can be. This...
