by Terrance Heath | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog, The Sequester
The supercommittee is down for the count, and everyone from the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, and even Grover Norquist is credited with throwing the knockout punch. It's tempting to do a victory dance, but we'd better make it a short one. Don't get me wrong. We've...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 21, 2011 | Blog
Being in the 99 percent, and living in Washington, DC, is to live and work in close proximity to the 1 percent. (Especially if you work in Capitol Hill.) When you do so on a daily basis, it's easy to forget that — as F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote — "The...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: America's Affluent...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 18, 2011 | Blog
Almost since the Occupy Wall Street movement began, everyone from pundits to the person-in-the-street have offered their $0.02 on what the OWS movement "should" do next. The number of columns and blog posts offering such advice naturally increased after the midnight...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 16, 2011 | Blog
After labeling Barack Obama a "socialist," you wouldn't think conservatives would be taking their cues from socialists, right? You'd be wrong. From the "flat tax" to the ideal capitalist system, Republican presidential candidates seem to be getting their ideas and...