by Dave Johnson | Nov 23, 2010 | Blog
China claims it originated or bought technology for their high-speed rail projects, and didn't steal it. This is a Google translation -- Refuting the State Intellectual Property Office of China's high-speed rail: China news agency, Chengdu, November 22 (Xu Yangyi) -...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 23, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
Does it even matter what the public wants anymore? I guess that's a rhetorical question these days because more and more obviously the answer is no. It matters what the plutocrats want, and they know how to get what they want. Public opinion is "engineered" or at...
by Zach Carter | Nov 23, 2010 | Blog
The Republican Party's newfound political assault on Ben Bernanke is a grim reminder of the actual conservative economic agenda for the next two years. The midterm elections taught Republicans a destructive lesson: With Democrats in power, the worse the economy gets,...
by Bill Scher | Nov 23, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday, the White House issued one of those -- eek! -- regulations. As part of implementing the health reform law, our federal government established a new rule to stop profiteering by private health insurance companies. As the AP reported, the regulation "calls...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 23, 2010 | Blog
Today's Washington Post has punch two of a one-two punch. Punch one was the Simpson/Bowles "plan" to cut Social Security, cut middle-class tax breaks and programs (and dramatically cut taxes on the rich.) Punch two is pushing this plan hard with headlines claiming...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 23, 2010 | Blog
Real men, real human beings, with feelings and families, fought and died at Gettysburg to preserve the Union, to ensure, as their president, Abraham Lincoln, would say later, that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the...
