by Bill Scher | Feb 1, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Conservative lawmakers in South Dakota think they've found a brilliant way to provide that the provision in the health reform law requiring most everyone to obtain insurance is unconstitutional. The Argus-Leader reports: Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 1, 2011 | Blog, Reagan Revolution, Rick Perlstein
The celebration of Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday doesn't come until early March, but the devotions have been going on for years. For conservatives, Reagan is the lodestar, the genial demigod to whom all must avow fealty. In a Time cover story, Michael Scherer and...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 1, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
I want to bring attention to a post today,Balance Trade—Make Jobs, by Bill Parks. In the post Parks writes about the harm being caused by our trade imbalances: The U.S. trade deficit—like an infected appendix—not only won’t get better on its own, it will get worse....
by Robert Borosage | Feb 1, 2011 | Blog
Republicans have obstructed the confirmation of unprecedented numbers of Obama judicial nominees. Vacancies have grown so bad that even Justice Roberts, the partisan Chief Justice, urged the Senate to act, since the undermanned courts were getting overwhelmed. But the...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 1, 2011 | Blog, Economy
While the rest of us as asking "Where are the damn jobs?", Republicans are apparently focused on everything else but jobs. Republicans won dozens of elections last fall after claiming Democrats had focused too little on creating jobs. Now GOP lawmakers stand...
