by | Sep 21, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
By: Stephen Miles and William Hartung(Crossposted at The Huffington Post and Win Without War)This week in Washington the halls of Congress have been flooded with talk about looming cuts to the Pentagon. With members of Congress floating plans to undo planned cuts...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
Republicans won't abandon the Obama's-gutting-welfare-reform lie, no matter how often it is discredited. Today Republicans took the lie to the House floor, in the form of a resolution that would block the implementation of a Health and Human Services memorandum that...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
Bloggers and pundits have completely picked apart what Mitt Romney had to say about "the 47 percent" in that secret video leaked by Mother Jones magazine. As I posted yesterday, we know that nearly 47 percent of Americans don't pay federal income taxes, because they...
by Steven Capozzola | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
Let's look at some simple stats… U.S. manufacturing employment in January 2000: 17,292,000 U.S. manufacturing employment in January 2012: 11,860,000 Annual U.S. trade deficit with China in 2000: $83.8 billion Annual U.S. trade deficit with China in 2011: $295.4...
by Brian Dockstader | Sep 20, 2012 | Blog
For a long time — basically ever since Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell infamously stated that the Republican Party's #1 goal was to defeat President Obama — it has been plainly obvious that the Republican Party was committed to a strategy of...
