by Richard Eskow | Jul 23, 2010 | Blog
The "teachable moment" cliché may be overused, as Jason Linkins observed the other day, but what the White House really needed this week was a learnable moment. The Administration and other leading Democrats had an opportunity this week to understand the nature of the...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 21, 2010 | Blog
This week's big story is that a faker scammed the media, trashing an innocent USDA employee's career in order to push a false right-wing narrative. But another scam's underway too, and it's targeting Social Security and other entitlement programs. As Republicans (and...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 21, 2010 | Blog, Economy
"It hurts me that they didn't even try to attempt to see what is happening here, they didn't care." Shirley Sherrod – on her forced resignation from the USDA within hours airing of a heavily edited video of Sherrod speaking at an NAACP event by right wing...
by Zach Carter | Jul 21, 2010 | Blog
Ezra Klein needs to stop repeating bank lobby smears against Elizabeth Warren. He's sympathetic to the charge that Warren is "too dismissive of the benefits of financial innovation," because, well, I don't know why. It's a baseless allegation being made by Warren's...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 21, 2010 | Blog
In the deficit hysteria now sweeping Washington, Social Security has emerged in the bull's-eye as a target for cuts. Perpetually tanned Republican House Minority leader John Boehner, called for hiking the retirement age to 70. The Democratic House Majority...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 21, 2010 | Blog
The right-wing smear machine that cost an exemplary Agriculture Department official her job should be denounced for what it is: a high-tech, low-rent McCarthyism that launches search-and-destroy missions with no purpose but poisonous partisanship. That the Obama...
