by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 21, 2010 | Blog
By Tuesday, it will have been five days since Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, got rapped on the knuckles by the House Republican leadership for the sin of repeating a Republican talking point at an inopportune time. That talking point, you'll recall, is that BP is the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 17, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Corporate lobbyist Lanny Davis, former legal counsel for President Clinton, is launching his own firm next week, and he is previewing his tactics with a slimy and erroneous diatribe against progressives in general and against the Campaign for America's Future in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Oh, the irony. As Defense Secretary Robert Gates was on Capitol Hill today telling a Senate appropriations subcommittee that Congress has to approve a $33 billion supplemental war funding request by July 4 or else "we begin to have to do stupid things," the Senate did...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 9, 2010 | Blog
Where RIghts went Wrong: What Happened to the Rights Revolution? Palladian Room Breakout Nan Aron Rea Carey Adam Luna Anthony D. Romero Kierra Johnson Anthony Romero, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union, did not mince words earlier today when he...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 9, 2010 | Blog
Most people know Progressive Insurance from its quirky commercials, starring a character named Flo who staffs the checkout counter at an supermarket that sells insurance in neatly labeled boxes. But the leaders of the nation's leading progressive activist...