by Bill Scher | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog
After the President signed the health reform law, opponent GOP Sen. Scott Brown immediately promised to push for changes. In a March 30th Boston Globe oped, he wrote: "I am working on legislation that would allow states to opt out of this federal health care bill...
by Bill Scher | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog
Jon Stewart presumably came to DC to rally the sane against Glenn Beck's minions and 9/11 Truthers. But instead of amplifying that message in The Daily Show interview with President Obama yesterday, Stewart opted to focus on the most weak and superficial criticisms of...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog
Faced with a foreclosure fiasco of astounding proportions — as chronicled by my fellow bloggers, Zach Carter and Richard Eskow — in which banks practically kick down doors to foreclose on homes even when they can't prove ownership of the...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 17, 2010 | Blog
The Healthcare is Too Damn High from CEPR Oh My goodness. The deficits are out of control. We have to do something! What is wrong with the deficits? Well, we have to cut them. Why? Because if we don’t do something, something really bad will happen Like what? The...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 17, 2010 | Blog
"Free trade" by any other name ... is still just a scam to pit workers against each other and evade the protections of democracy. We, the People fought to build this democracy with its laws and institutions and protections. This fight brought us a middle class with...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 17, 2010 | Blog
A CBS poll shows that only 6% of the public is concerned about budget deficits or taxes. The rest of us are more concerned about jobs and the economy, with very good reason. The Washington elite are insulated from the pain the rest of us and are focused on the deficit...
