by Sara Robinson | Oct 29, 2010 | Blog
One of the biggest problems facing the Democrats going into this election is that they're getting absolutely zero respect for everything they've done for the average American over the past two years. Tax cuts, health care reform, financial reform, expanded veterans'...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 29, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
This is not your country. Nor is it mine. That we were born here, along with our forebears hardly matters. This has been the message of the Tea Party since its incorporation — and of conservatism itself for more than a generation — to anyone who doesn't'...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 29, 2010 | Blog
African-American voters are once again in a pivotal position to decide on November 2 who controls the House of Representatives, and by extension whether the economic damage done to African American families in the past decade will be repaired in the foreseeable...
by Bill Scher | Oct 29, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
No matter what happens on Tuesday, progressives will not have unfettered control of Washington, just as we have not the last two years, the last decade, the decade before that, or the decade before that. We will have to fight for more change. The question is: who will...
by Bill Scher | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog
Potentially overlooked in yesterday's blogger roundtable with President Obama is his response to the question "Will you rule out raising the retirement age to 70?" House Minority Leader John Boehner has explicitly backed the proposal, and a raise in the retirement age...