by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 12, 2011 | Blog
If this makes Michelle Malkin and the folks at Red State mad, it must be good. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is offering a way out of the hostage drama the Republicans orchestrated to defend millionaires and billionaires from having to sacrifice anything to...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 12, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
There was (yet more) bad economic news this morning. Reuters: US trade deficit grows to 31-month high. While oil takes part of the blame, the problem is not all oil: Oil imports helped widen the U.S. trade deficit to $50.2 billion in May from $43.6 billion in April,...
by Alan Jenkins | Jul 12, 2011 | Blog
As the deadline nears for national default if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling, the two parties appear deadlocked over ending tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, which Republicans oppose, and deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare, which Democrats...
