by Bill Scher | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
If Mike Huckabee ever wants to meet Uncle Sugar, he need only look in the mirror. Earlier today, Huckabee invented quite the straw man in the not-so-controversial debate over the Obamacare provision requiring health insurers to cover contraception: "If the Democrats...
by Guest Writer | Jan 23, 2014 | Economy, Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Ron Carver Many hundreds of thousands of Americans saw their good working-class jobs disappear once NAFTA took effect. And millions of Mexicans lost their ability to live off the land after cheap factory farmed corn from the United States displaced their crops in...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
Republicans voted for a budget that caved in to many of their economy-sabotaging, hostage-ransom austerity demands. Now the "debt ceiling" has to be raised in February so the government can pay for that budget that Republicans voted for. Republicans are saying no way...
by Digby | Jan 23, 2014 | Conservatism, Health
There has been some push-back among conservatives at the charge they are sabotaging Obamacare. They insist it's just imploding all on its own (despite the fact that it actually isn't.) But as Sahil Kapur reports, in one case, they're just admitting it right up front:...
by Bill Scher | Jan 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Inequality To Be Spotlighted In SOTU Inequality, minimum wage to be Obama's focus in SOTU. The Hill: "A president who has yet to add to the big legislative accomplishments of his first term will call for raising the minimum wage to $10 per hour and extending federal...
