by Isaiah J. Poole | May 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
On Thursday, House Republicans have scheduled a vote on a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Haven't they already done that, you ask? Yes, they have, in one form or another, 36 times since it has been enacted. This week's vote would make 37. It's gotten to the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 14, 2013 | Student Debt Relief
Do you think that student loan debt is only a problem for college students and perhaps their parents? Think again. The escalation of student loan debt in the past decade is a millstone around the neck of the entire economy, and you are touched by its effects....
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 9, 2013 | Climate
Right-wing obstructionism reached another low today when Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee would not even show up to vote today on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The spectacle was...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 8, 2013 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein, a former writer for the Campaign for America's Future who now writes for The Nation, has a detailed and deeply troubling two-part examination (Part I and Part II) of President Obama's nominee to be Commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker. We interviewed...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
The scheme that Apple cooked up this week to finance a $55 billion stock buyback for its shareholders was orchestrated to avoid paying $9.2 billion in taxes, Bloomberg reported Friday. That $9.2 billion tax bill that Apple dodged would have been enough to make...
