by Jeff Bryant | Mar 25, 2011 | Blog, Education
It’s getting really hard to look at the distorted rhetoric of today’s debate about public schools and NOT see it in the same whorish light as other political discussions of the day. Just as we’re being stoked with down-is-up claims that tax cuts balance government...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 25, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The usual suspects are trying to sell us on yet another scheme to keep from paying their taxes. This one is called a repatriation tax holiday—a huge cut in the tax rate on money companies are holding outside of the country. We did this before and it didn't work out so...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 25, 2011 | Blog, Economy
"Free trade" treaties like NAFTA have wiped out entire regions of our country and left entire segments of our population without good-paying jobs -- or in so many cases with no jobs at all. And they have had similar results with our trade "partners." We can see that...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog
A picture is worth a thousand words, the saying goes. Get a bunch of pictures together, and they tell a story.The Huffington Post has posted a slideshow of images depicting the decline of Detroit, Michigan, taken from the book The Ruins of Detroit, by Yves Marchand...
by Bill Scher | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog
It's been a year since the President Obama's Affordable Care Act became law. During that period of time, no federal government health department, bureau, agency or panel has ordered anyone's death. I just checked on my family's grandmother. She's still here. This news...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog
Hey, everyone in the Rand Paul pile-on, make room for one more. I'm coming in for a landing! I shouldn't pick on the good doctor, though he makes it too easy. After all, his latest media train wrecks gave me a chance to resurrect a timeline of industrial disasters I...
