by Bill Scher | Aug 15, 2011 | Blog
In his presidential campaign announcement speech on Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry actually said this: We’re dismayed at the injustice that nearly half of all Americans don’t even pay any income tax. And you know the liberals out there are saying that we need to pay...
by Bill Scher | Aug 14, 2011 | Blog
In 2007, I attended the biggest conservative annual confab, CPAC. One speaker after another tried to outdo each other for the biggest tall tale, the loudest embrace of Reagan or the most outrageous slander of liberals. But one speaker sought to challenge conservative...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 14, 2011 | Blog
What made last week's rioting in London all the more 'achingly sad'? The rioters weren't challenging greed. They were celebrating it. We really need to understand why. Oppressed people riot. Oppression and rioting have gone together for millennia. But the young...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 12, 2011 | Blog
It's come to this. As much as it pains me to say it, I wish we had more Republicans who think like Newt Gingrich. It pains me even more to say this, but I wish we had more Democrats who like Newt Gingrich. Ah, but I should be more specific. I wish we had more...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 12, 2011 | Blog
"The patient is sicker so we have to apply more leeches." Countries that are trying to fix deficits with spending cuts are finding out that taking money out of their economies by cutting government is slowing their economies. Duh! Imagine that! So instead of cutting...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 12, 2011 | Blog
Mitt Romney got a lot of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that "corporations are people." He did not go on to sing that Patti Smith song, People Have the Power. But corporate "people" certainly do. Their power was on display this week, both in...
