by Richard Eskow | Oct 18, 2012 | Blog, Climate, Economy
Mitt Romney's "binder full of women" comment has gone viral, which is pretty entertaining but has had the unfortunate side effect of crowding the phrase "wind jobs." That's a real loss, because that term could become a very useful part of our political vocabulary....
by Bill Scher | Oct 17, 2012 | Blog
I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak -- President Barack Obama, 3/25/09 The right is in a tizzy claiming that Candy Crowley tipped the debate by "fact-checking" Mitt Romney on President's Obama statements regarding the Benghazi attack, then saying...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 17, 2012 | Blog
Echoing the memo that Stan Greenberg of Democracy Corps published Monday, I called on President Obama to offer a bold agenda on jobs and the economy on Tuesday night, one that would lay out specific contrasts to the empty suit of the Mitt Romney agenda and would...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 17, 2012 | Blog
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty,...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 16, 2012 | Blog
Two items in the news: a congressional committee warns that Chinese telecom companies might be spying on us, and the Secretary of Defense warns about "cybersecurity." One report even says that Chinese-made equipment used in businesses here sends data to China at...