by Terrance Heath | Mar 4, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
In August, 100 social justice leaders, Members of Congress, faith leaders, artists, and activists signed an open letter to President Obama, laying out seven action areas in the wake of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. This week, the President’s Task Force on 21st...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 4, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
To Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, America's labor union members are the same as murderous, beheading, caged-prisoner-immolating ISIS terrorists. Exactly the same. That's what he told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week. The governor said that...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 4, 2015 | Blog
[fve]http://youtu.be/ftUeX6f_wzs[/fve] Silicon Valley is an area of contrasts. When you stop at a traffic light in Silicon Valley you will often find a Maserati or Tesla on one side of you and a beaten up, 15-year-old Accord on the other. It seems there are more...
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...
