by Terrance Heath | Apr 4, 2008 | Blog
We are all, as Sean Gonsalves wrote, morally exhausted from dealing with and talking about race. But, to borrow from an old spiritual, we have little choice but to "run on, see what the end will be," because the exhausting race is the only way forward. It's the door...
by Bill Scher | Apr 3, 2008 | Blog
It's an annual Beltway ritual. The group Citizens Against Government Waste releases the "Pig Book," detailing all the so-called "pork" coming out of Congress. Outrage is ginned up over all the wacky things congresspeople are funding: Fruit fly research! Bear DNA!...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 3, 2008 | Blog
Well, that didn't take long. Ya gotta admire people who know how to get results, and get them fast. For that reason, I've got to take my hat off to the National Association of Home Builders, for pulling off something almost worthy of Wall Street: their own version of...
by Bill Scher | Apr 2, 2008 | Blog
I feel like I see ads for the deceptively-named "Free Credit Report" more and more and more, as if the worse the economy gets, the more companies seek to prey on those who are struggling. As you may know (but obviously not enough do), Free Credit Report is a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 2, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
“You know, Jesus reminded us in a magnificent parable one day that a man went to hell because he didn't see the poor. … And I come by here to say that America, too, is going to hell, if we don't use her wealth. If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to...
by Bill Scher | Apr 2, 2008 | Blog
At yesterday's House Energy Independence and Global Warming committee hearing, oil executives railed against proposals to invest in renewable energy. In particular, ExxonMobil executive J. Stephen Simon said, "government mandates and subsidies distort market forces...