by Bill Scher | Apr 24, 2008 | Blog
My colleague Isaiah says McCain is offering nothing but "inaction" in his visit to New Orleans' lower Ninth Ward, as McCain continues to offer another eight years of do-nothing conservatism from our government. But apparently he's fine with certain kinds of government...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 24, 2008 | Blog
The conservative war against the war on poverty continues today as Arizona Sen. John McCain goes to the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. From what we've seen so far, McCain is coming to the still-devastated city with nothing that will actually address the compounded...
by Bill Scher | Apr 23, 2008 | Blog
You may not know this, but our media often reports on important issues that affect our lives. However, the reporters on the presidential campaign beat and the punditocracy then choose to assume voters care more about guilt-by-association charges, silly surrogate...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 22, 2008 | Blog
One of the trickiest parts of dealing with the extremist right is figuring out whether a given group is just harmless garden-variety crazy -- or harboring the special kind of insanity that will lead to acts of local violence or outright domestic terror. it's a...
by Bill Scher | Apr 22, 2008 | Blog
You may recall that last year, the Bush administration issued new State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) regulations that threatened states trying to provide health insurance to kids from squeezed middle-class families, which could put pressure on states to...
by Bill Scher | Apr 22, 2008 | Blog
Just before the Iowa caucuses, I wrote that the process let us know what Iowa voters wanted: economic populism, health care for all, clean energy, affordable education and ending the Iraq occupation. And just before the Pennsylvania primary, we know that political...
