by Richard Eskow | Oct 31, 2012 | Blog
At last Monday's debate Mitt Romney said the United States is "heading toward Greece." That remark was filled with bitter ironies, not the least of which is the fact that the world's current economic miseries were triggered by financial speculators like Romney...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 23, 2012 | Blog
Wealthy Republican incumbent Mary Bono Mack is locked in a tight and bitter Congressional race against a progressive Democrat with an inspiring story. While her campaign focuses on red-baiting her opponent (yes, they still do that in 2012), a new nonpartisan analysis...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
In tonight's foreign policy debate, Mitt Romney will say that the way to get jobs back from China is with more free trade and lower taxes. But China's Communist. It already has tougher trade restrictions and higher taxes than we do. How, exactly, will more tax cuts...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 18, 2012 | Blog, Climate, Economy
Mitt Romney's "binder full of women" comment has gone viral, which is pretty entertaining but has had the unfortunate side effect of crowding the phrase "wind jobs." That's a real loss, because that term could become a very useful part of our political vocabulary....
by Richard Eskow | Oct 15, 2012 | Blog
"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste …" "Some people," my mother used to say, "are just no damned good." This was from somebody who rarely used bad language around us, and it was usually said with an air of bemused resignation...
