by Bill Scher | Feb 26, 2010 | Blog
The partisan gulf was not just present in the summit room yesterday, but liberal and conservative bloggers also had completely different takes on what transpired. Liberals slammed the inability of Republicans to engage in serious discussion, while conservatives tried...
by Alex Lawson | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
# With longer life expectancies than men, elderly women tend to live more years in retirement and have a greater chance of exhausting other sources of income. They benefit from Social Security's cost-of-living protections because benefits are annually adjusted for...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
The pheremonic scent of compromise is inducing euphoria in the nation's capitol once again. Not that there's anything wrong with compromise, if it results in policies that work. But we've just pulled ourselves back from the brink of financial meltdown, and tens of...
by Bill Scher | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
During the lunch break of today's health care summit, C-Span 3 took two calls from Republican voters appalled at what they saw from their own party's congressional leaders. One praised President Obama for trying to tackle a serious problem, while lamenting the...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday: Whirlpool Threatens Workers Who Protest Plant Closing, I thought that was the end of it, but whoa, what's this? Whirlpool Threatens Workers: Protesting Plant Closure Risks 'Future Jobs' A major corporation planning to shut down a factory in Indiana has...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
McJoan at DailyKos says it best: "How despicable can these guys get?" This is how despicable: Starting Monday, 1.1 million people will lose their unemployment benefits because right-wing Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., thinks its more important to give tax breaks to...
