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...
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...