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...
by Bill Scher | Apr 15, 2008 | Blog
Today is Tax Day, the deadline for filing our tax returns. It is fundamentally a patriotic day, the day where we citizens fund our own government. We are no longer ruled by monarchs who govern by the power of their own wealth. With taxation, we have representation. We...
by Bill Scher | Apr 14, 2008 | Blog
It was nearly one year go when a conservative filibuster stifled the new congressional majority, did the bidding of the pharmaceutical and insurance companies, and kept the ban on Medicare from negotiating with companies to lower drug costs. So what's been happening...
by Bill Scher | Apr 14, 2008 | Blog
Sen. John McCain, today, from The Politico: Asking for a dose of straight talk, AP's Liz Sidoti asked McCain if the country had entered recession. "I certainly think so," McCain replied. John McCain, January 10, 2008, at a GOP presidential debate: And by the way, I...
by Bill Scher | Apr 14, 2008 | Blog
A particularly shameful day for the Sunday shows, which once again went 0-for-3 for the Watchdog. It is simply pathetic that ABC's This Week failed to ask National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley about the latest bombshell report, from ABC no less, that senior Bush...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 13, 2008 | Blog, Economy
Honest discussion about the roots of working-class angst and how to address it has gotten seriously burned in the firestorm of controversy fanned around comments by Sen. Barack Obama that working-class people are "bitter" about the economy and government. However...
