by Terrance Heath | Apr 4, 2013 | The Sequester
"Honey, if you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love someone else?…..Can I get an amen?" -- RuPaul One of the most interesting things about the focus on marriage equality in the past couple of weeks has been the Republican Party's reaction to all the...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 3, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Years ago I heard an old Irish politician tell a joke, in that brogue only old-time Irish politicians could pull off, about a prisoner who had his tonsils removed one December. The following December the prisoner had his adenoids taken out. A year later he was...
by Liz Rose | Apr 2, 2013 | Too Big To Jail
Today activists in more than a dozen cities across the country are delivering more than 330,000 signatures to U.S. Department of Justice offices calling on the Obama Administration to reject Eric Holder's declaration that some financial institutions are too big to...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 2, 2013 | The Sequester
Republicans are suffering grievously from the syndrome that singer Joni Mitchell memorialized in the hit “Big Yellow Taxi” in 1970. The chorus says it all: Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 2, 2013 | Chained CPI
Two recent news reports indicate that the president is “strongly considering” cuts to Medicare and Social Security in his upcoming budget, which is to be released in less than ten days. The question’s been asked for four years: Why would Obama want to cut these...
by Bill Scher | Mar 29, 2013 | The Sequester
This week our federal government effectively shut down the Fung Wah bus company.. Fung Wah had a loyal customer following because it was ridiculously dirt-cheap, $15 one-way from New York City to Boston. But it was dirt-cheap because it was a death trap on wheels....
