by Bill Scher | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The real story in Libya is not that there was a local terrorist attack. It's that the Libyan people sided with us over them after the attack. From yesterday's Meet The Press, here's Tom...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
The upcoming presidential debate on foreign policy will undoubtedly feature warnings from Republican candidate Mitt Romney that defense spending cuts from the Obama administration will compromise the nation's ability to defend itself. What you will not hear, at least...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
In tonight's foreign policy debate, Mitt Romney will say that the way to get jobs back from China is with more free trade and lower taxes. But China's Communist. It already has tougher trade restrictions and higher taxes than we do. How, exactly, will more tax cuts...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 21, 2012 | Blog
Americans haven't heard much at all from Joe the Plumber this election cycle. A shame. Without his rants against sharing the wealth, no one's bothering to debate how desperately America really needs to be sharing. And how desperate has our maldistribution of wealth...
by Bill Scher | Oct 19, 2012 | Blog, Climate
We've had four and a half hours of presidential and vice-presidential debates. We've covered a lot of ground. There's been a lot of substance. Yet it is unconscionable that the biggest crisis the world faces has not yet warranted a mention: global warming. Will it be...