by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 13, 2008 | Blog
What we've been calling e. coli conservatism is a major factor in the salmonella outbreak in tomatoes that has led to at least 228 illnesses and one suspected death. The outbreak took place several months after the Food and Drug Administration, the agency responsible...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 12, 2008 | Blog
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is on a path to finish the job Hurricane Katrina started, destroying the public infrastructure that served, however imperfectly, poor and working-class New Orleans residents. Jindal, the young wunderkind who is being touted as...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 6, 2008 | Blog
Here's a question for the town hall debates that Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are talking about having: What will you do to reign in oil speculators who are profiteering off the pain of working class families by dealing in the dark, unregulated corners of global...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 4, 2008 | Blog
Just as amusement parks build roller-coaster rides with ever more dramatic dips and twists, the Bush administration and conservative lawmakers have succeeded in building a roller-coaster economy where family incomes are exposed to sharper drops and turns. It's no fun....
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 28, 2008 | Blog
Pledging to not liberalize trade with Cuba remains for most candidates one of the de facto requirements for getting elected, and even though any thinking person can easily grasp the utter silliness of arguments for the status quo. (Remind me again: How did more than...
