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Get Active For MLK Day Celebrate and Help The Movement For Justice
What would Martin Luther King do if he were alive today?
Why Accountants Should Not Run Schools
There's a reason why accountants traditionally wore green eyeshades. In their "vision-intensive, detail-oriented" work, they were prone to "eyestrain" caused by scrupulous attention to columns and rows of numbers on a ledger. Now, of course, the strain is lessened by the softer glow of a computer screen.
Bain Capitalism Mitts Frankenstein is a Politically-Created Monster
Bain Capital must seem like a Frankenstein monster to Mitt Romney's campaign. Like Mary Shelley's creature, it's stalking its creator just as he's about to claim the thing he loves most. But Bain Capital—and Bain capitalism—isn't Mitt's creation. It was sewed together from the corpses of dead ideals and shocked into life in Washington's political laboratories.
Richard Viguerie Unloads On Romney Crony Capitalist
Republicans continue to expose the real Romney:
In Politico, Richard Viguerie, the New Right mass mail mogul, makes the case that Romney is a lowlife "crony capitalist"
Newt Wants It Both Ways
It's starting to look like Newt Gingrich has more in common with Mitt Romney than just a background in vulture capitalism. During the Iowa primaries, Gingrich attacked Romney's "flip-flops" on a number of issues, but Newt has his own list of "flip-flops." Yesterday he added another one to the list, when he flipped-flopped on his attack on Romney's vulture capitalist past — twice in one day.
Romney Ends Up On Right Side Of Minimum Wage Flip-Flop
Former Campaign for America's Future staffer Anne Thompson got a scoop this past weekend when she asked presidential candidate Mitt Romney about his position on the minimum wage, and he responded by saying he supported indexing the minimum wage "so it adjusts automatically over time" with inflation. This is not welcome news on the right, […]
Progressive Breakfast - 1/12/2012
MORNING MESSAGE: Outsourcing Is Out. Insourcing Is In.
A Hero for Justice
On January 3rd, America lost one of the greatest champions of equal opportunity and human rights that our nation has ever known. Judge Robert L. Carter, civil rights lawyer, jurist, and fierce defender of justice, passed away at age 94 after suffering a stroke.
Judge Carter was a primary architect behind the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v.
OUT Outsourcing IN Insourcing
Insourcing. That’s at the top of my trending list for 2012. But, how do we make reshoring—bringing job back from overseas—real? For America to have a thriving economy and lower unemployment, we need to create more good-paying jobs. And to do that, we’ll have to win back some of the jobs that have been shipped overseas for the past decade.
The Obama Administrations New Bank Fraud Deal Still Unfair Still Unjust Still Unbalanced
The Obama White House continues to push for a settlement that would let bankers avoid being punished - or even investigated - for a wave of mortgage-related crimes that includes perjury, tax evasion, and several types of fraud.
