by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay appeared to be dancing with the stars in his head Sunday when he said on CNN that "there is an argument to be made" that an extension unemployment benefits, such as the one that conservative Republican Sen. Jim Bunning...
by Alan Jenkins | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog
President Obama and the First Lady recognized International Women’s Day earlier this week with a moving and sometimes funny ceremony in the East Room. The President said that “the story of America’s women, like the story of America itself, has had its peaks and...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
Two noted shills for the banking industry - Republican Lamar Alexander and Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal - just trotted out the "socialism" boogeyman, so here we go again: another lie, another con, another ripoff. "School loan socialism" is the new Death Panel....
by Bill Scher | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
One of the conservative goals former President George W. Bush was unable to get through the Senate was "making the tax cuts permanent." He only got them passed -- using Senate budget reconciliation rules -- by employing a budget gimmick to mask the 10-year cost....
by Terrance Heath | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
Conservatives who squawk about the deficit — and Democrats who should know better, but squawk anyway — tend to do so selectively. That is, they tend to focus only on spending. But spending is only half of any deficit equation. After all, a deficit is...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
We all pay a huge "hidden" tax when we burn oil and coal. Oil companies get the money. This is holding our economy back. Today when we burn oil or coal we put the toxic waste that results straight into the air. This causes damage to all of us, in many ways. First, of...
