by Bill Scher | Jun 16, 2009 | Blog
As the health care debate heats up, it becomes clearer why most politicians flinch from tackling major reforms, and why it's so difficult to engage grassroots citizens to influence policy debates. The clear philosophical debate -- should our government provide a...
by Alan Jenkins | Jun 15, 2009 | Blog
I learned last week that my friend and law school classmate Luke Cole had died in a car accident while vacationing with his wife in Uganda. Luke was an incredible guy with an infectious positive energy about him and the belief that he could change the world for the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 14, 2009 | Blog
Remember that $500,000 pay cap for bailed-out banking execs the White House announced in February? Under Treasury Secretary Geithner’s new rules for bailout pay, that max has become a minimum. Early this past February, amid escalating public fury over $165 million in...
by Sara Robinson | Jun 12, 2009 | Blog
Dear Conservatives: Your fellow Americans demand an answer -- and we want it now. Just one simple question: Are you deliberately trying to start a civil war? Just answer the question. Yes or no. Don't insult us with elisions, evasions, dithering, qualifications, or...
by Tula Connell | Jun 11, 2009 | Blog
Big Business wants it both ways: It wants to wrap itself in the ol' red, white and blue while feeding the decline of the U.S. economy through its actual practices. Here's the latest example of such corporate hypocrisy. Over the Memorial Day weekend, J.C....
by Eric Lotke | Jun 11, 2009 | Blog
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched yesterday “a sweeping national advocacy campaign … to defend and advance America’s free enterprise values in the face of rapid government growth and attacks by anti-business activists.” The Chamber of Commerce doesn’t get it. They...
