by Bill Scher | Oct 15, 2010 | Blog
It's been 20 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated, 19 months since the Recovery Act began investing billions in producing clean energy, 16 months since the House passed carbon cap legislation and 10 months since the EPA declared it was obligated, following a...
by Bill Scher | Oct 14, 2010 | Blog
The Tea Party has long attempted to portray itself as a populist movement -- angry both at Wall Street bailouts and social spending. The notion of government action working to save the private sector from collapse was literally depicted as a giant step towards Nazism,...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
I am joining and writing about the "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall tour. (Click through for more info and a map.) The tour is from October 12-29 and I will be joining from October 13-19, starting tomorrow in Jackson, Michigan. The official tour announcement:...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
I will be joining and writing about the "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall tour. (Click through for more info and a map.) The tour is from October 12-29 and I will be joining from October 12-19. The official tour announcement: Creating Jobs Takes Center Stage at...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 14, 2010 | Blog
I am in Flint, Michigan today, getting ready to drive down to Jackson for this evening's "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall. Flint has been through it and has come out the other end. Now the rest of us are going through what Flint has been going through. Many people...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 14, 2010 | Blog
Heard the one about the Social Security Trust Fund that holds nothing but "IOUs"? That phony claim goes back to at least 1939, when a rabidly anti-Roosevelt journalist named John T. Flynn used a colorful analogy about a tin box in a drawer in order to argue that...
