by Bill Scher | Nov 20, 2007 | Blog
On Saturday’s weekly presidential radio address, George Bush admonished “Congress” for not yet passing legislation temporarily fixing the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). The decades-old law was initially designed to prevent the ultra-rich from shirking their tax...
by Bill Scher | Nov 19, 2007 | Blog
Over the past seven years, crude oil prices have exploded from around $30 a barrel to nearly $100. With prices that high, you don’t need to give an oil company executive much financial incentive to drill for more fossil fuel. Yet clean energy legislation is stalled in...
by Bill Scher | Nov 19, 2007 | Blog
Fox News Sunday had a landmark Watchdog day, not only asking this week's question about Huckabee's past ethical violations, but also asking last month's Watchdog question about Huckabee's deeply flawed proposal to replace the income tax with a national sales tax....
by Bill Scher | Nov 17, 2007 | 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 Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 16, 2007 | Blog
A $3.7 billion program that channels federal money to local communities for projects designed to improve blighted areas and help produce jobs has been in the Bush administration crosshairs almost from the day the administration took office. The Bushies never liked the...
by Roger Hickey | Nov 15, 2007 | Blog
Editor’s Note: “The 2008 election campaign is almost sure to be a health care election — even before we’ve done much organizing at all,” said America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey at a conference sponsored by New Jersey Citizen Action on November 13. “So imagine...
