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...
by Sara Robinson | Jun 10, 2009 | Blog
The storm I've been warning about is coming in faster now. It is time for the right to stand up against the escalating tide of violence fueled by its own rhetoric. To get a sense of just how fast, you only need to take stock of what's been happening on the right wing...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 10, 2009 | Blog
I stopped reading The Wall Street Journal editorial page when it soared off into wingnuttery, writing tomes on the imaginary conspiracy to off Vince Foster and other fantasies. The news pages remain useful; the editorial page hasn't improved much. But as they say,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 9, 2009 | Blog
Third Way, an organization of so-called centrist Democrats, is promoting what it calls a "hybrid" proposal for a health insurance public plan option that it says progressives should be able to support. No, we shouldn't. It's an unacceptable attempt by people too...