by Bill Scher | Mar 17, 2011 | Blog
This week, an actual jobs idea garnered bipartisan support. Sens. John Kerry (D), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) and Mark Warner (D) teamed up to introduce "The BUILD Act" which would create a $10 billion "infrastructure bank" to provide loans and loan guarantees for...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 17, 2011 | Blog
Steve Earle, who's hands-down one of the best songwriters of our time, has re-released two union-themed songs on iTunes to support the Madison protesters. “Harlan Man” and “The Mountain” are being issued as a special "2-track digital single" (I didn't know you could...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 16, 2011 | Blog
The following caught my eye: It is today's distillation by Anzalone Liszt Research drawn from recent national polls: For first time in history, more Americans support gay marriage than oppose it: The General Social Survey shows that for the first time in history, more...
by Bill Scher | Mar 16, 2011 | Blog
Earlier this week, I offered advice to America's highest-ranking libertarian Sen. Rand Paul how he could find a working toilet, and dispel his belief that the federal government will not allow him one. Soon after, Grist's David Roberts, dismayed at the Senator's...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 16, 2011 | Blog
What's striking in the debate over America’s budget deficits isn’t the stridency of the anti-government Right. That’s expected and they don’t deviate from script. No, most impressive is the steely strength of a conventional wisdom that is flat out wrong. In its...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog
God save us from sentences like this one: "Don't look now, but an adult conversation has begun on the federal budget deficit." If we've heard this cliché once, we've heard it a thousand times, so we hope we'll be forgiven for the blunt talk that follows. Let's face...
