by Jim Hightower | Mar 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Health
p>The GOP-led House of Representatives has already achieved a historic legislative record. A record in futility, that is. And absurdity. In February, for the 56th time, they focused the entire array of brain cells in their 245-member caucus on an effort that would...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 3, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
Frank Underwood is known for deceiving people into acting against their own best interests. (We'll miss you, President Walker.) Now we learn that this trait may extend to the series that features him. The greatest betrayals on "House of Cards" can be found in the...
by Dean Baker | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
There is an enormous amount of political debate over various pieces of legislation that are supposed to be massive job killers. For example, Republicans lambasted President Obama’s increase in taxes on the wealthy back in 2013 as a job killer. They endlessly have...
by Bill Scher | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog
Republicans, have mercy on your presidential candidates. Just get this immigration debate over with so your presidential candidates don't have to flip-flop anymore. Gov. Scott Walker is the latest in a long line of Republican immigration flippers, though at least he...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The debate over fast-track trade authority – designed to grease the tracks for a vote on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) accords still in negotiation – ought to be the occasion for a fundamental review of our global economic strategy. We know that it is broken....
by Bernie Horn | Mar 1, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Last week, when the Federal Communications Commission voted for net neutrality and changed the way the Internet is policed, conservatives fell back on their favorite myth. The right-wing media raged that it’s “a blow to the free market system.…” But there’s no such...
