by Bill Scher | Oct 31, 2008 | Blog
David Sirota astutely analyzed the tensions within the Democratic party yesterday, keying off of a Wall Street Journal piece. Rightly critical of counterproductive public infighting, he concludes: ...what that inappropriately anticipatory behavior suggests is 1) that...
by Bill Scher | Oct 30, 2008 | Blog
Amity Shlaes clearly doesn't like that my recent post called out that her revisionist history of the New Deal is based on misleading numbers. She responded on the National Review blog The Corner: (emphasis added) Scher says that The Forgotten Man has been “found to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 30, 2008 | Blog
The health care plan advocated by presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is hazardous to your health. That is the point of this 30-second video by Health Care for America Now that succinctly hits its key flaws: It taxes the health benefits people get from their jobs,...
by Eric Lotke | Oct 30, 2008 | Blog
The email came from GOPUSA, whose mission is to “spread the conservative message throughout America.” The editorial, “Barack Obama’s Dream Cabinet”, caught my attention. I’m curious and thought they might have insight to offer. So I indulged a click. Here then are the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 30, 2008 | Blog
Today's news that the economy is sinking further into recession—gross domestic product growth decreased at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the third quarter—is making it clearer that there is only one correct response to the current economic crisis: A robust...
by Bill Scher | Oct 29, 2008 | Blog
For almost the entire history of the environment movement, its opponents framed the debate as "Environment vs. Jobs." Now, Robert Borosage optimistically asks if we'll soon see "a 21st-century Green New Deal" effectively connecting the environment and job growth as...
