by Terrance Heath | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog
(If They Could Turn Back Time, Pt. 2) When I heard Rand Paul's statement about the civil rights act, I had a sense of deja vu. Not only that I'd heard them before, but that I run into the peculiar conservative phenomenon they represented: wanting have it both ways on...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog
Imagine, if you will, Rand Paul, Michelle Bachman, and Sharron Angle — with Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck on speakerphone — sitting down together with a copy of the constitution, and a red pen. For edits, of course. Now, open your eyes. And, if you're a...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
You hear it all the time, these days. Tea baggers, militia members and various other conservatives all that to "take their country back." My usual response was to ask just how far back they want to go. I used to think I knew. It turns out, I had my time...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co (that guy again?), recently said that his bank would add new customer fees if it couldn't continue to charge exorbitant hidden fees for the use of debit cards. He was sorry, Dimon said, "but, of course, the...
by Mary Bottari | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog
The reign of lawlessness continues in Wisconsin. Last week, a local court issued a temporary restraining order blocking the implementation of Governor Scott Walker's radical proposal to do away with most collective bargaining rights for public workers and cripple...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog, Economy
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Monday unveiled what his office called a “pro-growth economic plan” in a speech at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. If the speech only exemplified one of the basic definitions of "cant"—"insincere or almost meaningless...
