by Bill Scher | Apr 16, 2008 | Blog
President Bush just finished his latest empty speech on global warming. As usual, it was designed to give of appearance of action without actually acting. He did not take questions, presumably because he knows the flimsy rhetoric could not withstand five seconds of...
by Bill Scher | Apr 16, 2008 | Blog
Last week, Al Meyerhoff offered a series of thoughtful questions for tonight's debate between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, 8 PM ET on ABC. In the desperate hope it won't be 90 minutes of blather about supposed gaffes that voters appear completely...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 16, 2008 | Blog, Economy
On Wall Street, the masters of the universe have turned to prayer and worry beads. At the Federal Reserve, a full night’s sleep is a fading memory. Across Main Street, the recession is starting to hit, stores are shutting down, bankruptcies are spreading, houses are...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 16, 2008 | Blog
John McCain, who from the early 1980s worked hard to establish himself the one of the Senate's shining champions of Vietnam veterans' issues, completed his betrayal of the Iraq-era troops today. Brandon Friedman of vetvoice.com has the details: Yesterday VoteVets.org...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 15, 2008 | Blog
It's almost quitting time, and if you've put off your taxes and haven't paid them online, you've probably scoped out the post office in your neighborhood with the latest closing time. Or maybe you're planning to speed to the nearest one before it closes. Chances are...
by Tula Connell | Apr 15, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
In August 2004, Hector Alino Martinez and three other Colombian trade unionists were dragged out of their homes and assassinated in the streets of Caño Seco. The men were among 96 unionists killed in Colombia that year. But supporters of Bush's drive to ram the...
