by Digby | Sep 8, 2011 | Blog
I write a lot about the Villagers' endless preening about "shared sacrifice", as if forcing old ladies to live on even less than they do now is somehow equal to asking corporations to depreciate their corporate jets over a longer period. It drives me crazy. But this,...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 8, 2011 | Blog
One part of Mitt Romney's "Jobs Plan" is worth pointing out and commending: he is right when it comes to China. Romney calls for steps to make China "play be the rules" including sanctions for currency manipulation and blocking China's use of third-party countries to...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 8, 2011 | Blog
Red's the designated Republican color, but the shades used for Wednesday’s GOP debate have never been glimpsed in nature. Ranging from scarlet to carnelian to a kind of raspberry-magenta blend, they would have induced psychosis in any self-respecting interior...
by Josh Rosenblum | Sep 7, 2011 | Blog
This past Friday night in Washington, a New York Mets pitcher threw the type of pitch President Obama must use in his march to stop any new proposals to cut Social Security if he plans to make it through the game of the deficit talks and his reelection. In the recent...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 6, 2011 | Blog
Have you heard any news in the major corporate media about the Contract For The American Dream, from The American Dream Movement? Probably not. And this means you probably didn't know there were over 400 protests in 32 different states against 85 members of Congress...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 6, 2011 | Blog
There's no better barometer of Washington's debased values and historical blindness than the Washington Post, that trade paper of the professional governing class. Today it attacked Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General taking a brave stand against a cushy...
