by Bill Scher | Aug 18, 2008 | Blog
In the latest edition of "The Week in Blog" over at bloggingheads.tv, the Heritage Foundation's Conn Carroll and I talked about the conservative blog reaction to the "Gang of 10" compromise, which would allow some drilling off the southeast coast in exchange for the...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 17, 2008 | Blog
When Sen. Barack Obama receives the Democratic presidential nomination before 75,000 people in Denver's Mile High Stadium on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, new possibilities will be born. Obama may not be a "movement"...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 15, 2008 | Blog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
by Bill Scher | Aug 15, 2008 | Blog
This week, the health insurance lobby continues it's "listening tour" by hosting a staged event in an undisclosed location where it could hear nothing it didn't want to hear, and didn't want you to hear. On the flip side, Health Care For America Now sought to amplify...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 15, 2008 | Blog
A hearing in late July on the middle-class squeeze by the congressional Joint Economic Committee did not get much attention at the time, but a warning at that hearing by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that what's happening to the middle class is not just a squeeze but a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 14, 2008 | Blog
Somewhat buried in the news this week was a forecast by Global Insight, a U.S. consulting firm, that China would overtake the United States as the leading global manufacturer in 2009. That forecast deserves more attention, because American workers want and need real...
