by Isaiah J. Poole | May 6, 2011 | Blog
While you're thinking of your mother on Mother's Day, think about the health care options your mother should have once she is 65. One of the greatest gifts we can leave for our parents is the defeat of the Medicare privatization plan that conservatives want to foist...
by Terrance Heath | May 6, 2011 | Blog
You can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep. Or so the saying goes. The GOP held its first presidential primary debate in Greenville, South Carolina, with the help of some very interesting — and very telling — company from the farthest of the far-right...
by Dave Johnson | May 6, 2011 | Blog
China's Vice Finance Minister lectured US administration officials about our debt and told us to mind our own business when it comes to China's currency manipulation. It is about time the United States started minding our own business by taking steps to protect our...
by Bill Scher | May 6, 2011 | Blog
According to the Republican-led House, American energy independence involves Americans producing energy. But not Americans keeping our own energy. Yesterday, the House passed a bill to expand coastal drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and eastern seaboard without careful...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 6, 2011 | Blog, Economy
It is amazing, given that we've been fighting a three-alarm unemployment fire with water buckets the past few months, that there is any positive news at all in the unemployment front. But there was a surprising net increase in 244,000 new jobs in April—a sliver of...
