by Bill Scher | Feb 18, 2014 | Blog
Seven years ago, Newt Gingrich stood next to John Kerry said that there is "clear agreement that human activity has helped increase the level of [global] warming" and therefore, "it is a problem, we should address it and we should address it very actively." There is...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 17, 2014 | Blog
Today is the fifth anniversary of the day President Obama signing the "stimulus," the American Recovery Act. In December I published this post," Did The Stimulus Work? See For Yourself." On this anniversary occasion, we republish it, in full: Did the "stimulus" work?...
by Bill Scher | Feb 14, 2014 | Blog
Earlier today I brought my annoying optimism to MSNBC to make the case that Washington is not broken. Yes, Republicans are furiously obstructing all they can, and this Congress may be end up being one of the least productive in history. But Republicans have relented...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
It’s Valentine’s Day, but there’s not a lot of love on the right, even for some of their own. There’s no love even for millions of schoolchildren, who will get valentines from their classmates today. At the beginning of the week, our sons came home with lists of all...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 11, 2014 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CERwr0MHYjQ[/fve] It’s heartbreaking to read of the suffering caused by environmental damage in West Virginia and North Carolina. We recently interviewed West Virginia filmmaker Mari-Lynn Evans on the “Zero Hour”...
by Derek Pugh | Feb 10, 2014 | Blog
Ahead of the Obama administration’s decision to whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, key environmental and labor organizations met in Washington, D.C. on Monday to offer an alternative: Repair America’s more than 2.5 million miles of existing deficient...
