by Bill Scher | Aug 19, 2010 | Blog
As we try to digest another bitter morsel of economic news -- higher numbers of unemployment insurance applications suggesting a return to job cutting -- the White House appears handcuffed from doing anything about it. And I can give you 53 reasons why. Reuters' Felix...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 18, 2010 | Blog
I'd started thinking that I was too hard on our power company last week, when I agreed with Gov. O'Malley that their service was less reliable than power in some Third World countries. I was starting to think maybe that was a bit hyperbolic. That is until I read the...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 18, 2010 | Blog
The Republican Party's attempt to privatize Social Security under George W. Bush was wildly unpopular. At least one Republican Congressional candidate is openly calling for Social Security cuts, and Rep. Paul Ryan's widely-publicized "Roadmap for the Future" includes...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 17, 2010 | Blog
To be more specific, what's Rand Paul smoking these days? His musings that America was a better, freer place when African Americans had no civil rights protection, and no one was looking out for the safety of American workers (at least no one who didn't have one eye...
by Zach Carter | Aug 17, 2010 | Blog
Finally, some good news on Wall Street accountability. A federal judge is holding up the SEC's effort to let Citigroup's top executives off the hook for misleading their own shareholders about $40 billion in subprime debt. If Citi executives did what the SEC says they...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 17, 2010 | Blog
Last week, I wrote this: The fundamental differences between the left and the right — between conservatives and progressives — comes down to how we answer three simple questions: "Can we?," "Should we?" and "What do we mean, 'We'?"...
