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...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog
Polls show that a significant number of people who might be on "our side" are not going to bother to vote. Some are even switching sides. The big corporations and right-wing billionaires are spending millions upon millions of dollars bombarding them with propaganda on...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
The current debate over foreclosure fraud has been a revelation, even for those of us who have become familiar with the power of moneyed interests to influence the national dialog. Despite overwhelming evidence of widespread lawbreaking and deception, there's still a...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Conservative policies have propelled us into a global race to the bottom. Conservatives can take pride: we're winning! "Free trade" -- moving factories across borders to evade the protections of democracy that generations of Americans fought for -- pits exploited...
by Bill Scher | Oct 28, 2010 | Blog
While many progressives have lamented the inability of the President and the congressional leadership to pass legislation capping greenhouse gas emission, few have recognized that the White House always had a Plan B for averting the climate crisis - the EPA. But if...
