by Dave Johnson | Jan 13, 2011 | Blog
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by Bill Scher | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog
It's increasingly clear that Republican leaders are bluffing when they threaten to destroy the full faith and credit of the American government by allowing the debt ceiling to be shattered unless draconian budget cuts are made. And a clear bluff is a bad bluff. There...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog
I appeared last week on the Bill Meyer Show, a talk radio program in Medford, OR. It was a very useful debate, since Bill (and one or two callers) used all the standard talking points for cutting Social Security: it's bankrupt, it's only IOUs, there are...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog
Five years ago, a 47-year-old Missouri woman began a duplicitous on-line courtship through MySpace with a 13-year-old neighbor who once had been friends with the woman’s daughter. The adult, Lori Drew, flirted with the 13-year-old, Megan Meier, through the guise of a...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Music was Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's second career. News reports say he began dealing crack at the age of twelve, after the murder of his coke-dealer mother. Early tracks like "Ghetto Quran" and "How to Rob" reflect a brutal, street-hustling life, and Jackson has the...
