by Isaiah J. Poole | May 24, 2010 | Blog
The Senate is starting debate this week on a $60 billion supplemental spending bill that includes additional money for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as money for disaster relief....
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 19, 2010 | Blog
If trade expert Clyde Prestowitz’s latest book, “The Betrayal of American Prosperity,” were a television series, one segment would open with this voiceover: “This episode of ‘The Betrayal of American Prosperity’ is brought to you by Intel.” A group of Chinese workers...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 18, 2010 | Blog
On a day in which voters in Arkansas, Kentucky and Pennsylvania are heading to the polls in what is being widely described as an anti-politician, anti-government rage, and with a particularly strident strain of conservatism portrayed as on the ascendancy, it might...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 6, 2010 | Blog
The current drumbeat of commentary on the right that the Obama administration was too slow in responding to the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf raises two obvious questions. One: Is it true? The answer is “no,” according to, among other things, a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 4, 2010 | Blog
There's a new study today that shows once again how insanely wrong conservatives are when they say that extending unemployment benefits in today's economy only discourages people from finding work. \ Just ask the people who participated in the study of the long-term...
