by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 25, 2007 | Blog
Celebrities spewing racist drivel get the headlines and the outrage, but largely out of the public eye the Bush administration has been doing something far more damaging to victims of discrimination than the utterance of a few vile slurs. In its classic Grover...
by Bill Scher | Apr 25, 2007 | Blog
Today, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman tries to press the presidential candidates to engage in a serious debate over energy policy, giving a shout out to the new GreenPrimary.org and citing a recent poll from Center for American Progress showing most Americans...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 25, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
In little more than a decade after President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty,” President Ronald Reagan led the nation in the equivalent of a helicopter evacuation from the epicenter of the fight. Reagan and his band of conservatives also so...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 25, 2007 | Blog
Celebrities spewing racist drivel get the headlines and the outrage, but largely out of the public eye the Bush administration has been doing something far more damaging to victims of discrimination than the utterance of a few vile slurs. In its classic Grover...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 24, 2007 | Blog
The rate at which infants are dying has begun to creep upward in several Southern states. This is an entirely predictable—and deadly—outcome of a systematic squeezing of federal and state health programs under conservative rule. The report in The New...
by Bill Scher | Apr 24, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is whining that the new minimum wage compromise doesn't have enough tax favors for business. From CQ Today (subscription required): “The Senate package was barely adequate,” [Grassley] said in a statement. “I called it...
