by Terrance Heath | Aug 10, 2012 | Blog
I'm probably going to take this just couple of steps too far. But it's too hard to resist, and I think its a valid point. Back in 2007, right-wing water-carrier Dinesh D'Souza made a big splash when he published The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 10, 2012 | Blog
Yesterday the Justice Department announced that once again it's not going to pursue evidence of Wall Street crimes which has been sent its way. It has already failed to act on information sent to it by sources whose investigators are apparently more dogged than its...
by Steven Capozzola | Aug 10, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
It's interesting to see the U.S. competing head-to-head with China for the top of the Olympic medal standings. As Andrew Weber points out in USA Today, for decades this close competition was instead the exclusive battle of the U.S. vs. the USSR. But times have...
by | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. You would think that Phil Gramm -- the former Republican Texas senator who was one of the authors of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget process from the late 1980s -- would know how the law bearing his name works. At the...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Everyone agrees that there is only one question on voters' minds: who has a plausible plan to put this economy on the right track? Yet in the most expensive election in recorded history, candidates up and down the ticket aren't offering much of an answer. The...
