by Alan Jenkins | Aug 8, 2012 | Blog
Even Olympians are, alas, not immune from America’s homeownership crisis. The Associated Press reported this week that the parents of U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte are facing foreclosure in Florida, while the mother of gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas filed for...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog
This month the Mitt Romney campaign offered a one-page economic plan, Mitt Romney’s Plan For A Stronger Middle Class. One of the points of the plan focuses on what they call "small business." So what does the Romney plan do for small business? Let's take a look. This...
by Bill Scher | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney released a new ad today about welfare reform. It's a stone-cold lie. The ad's narrator says: "Under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check." That's a wild fabrication. As my...
by Bill Scher | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog
While on The David Pakman Show yesterday, host David Pakman asked me why I thought Mitt Romney has proven to be such a bad candidate. The conventional wisdom is that Romney is weird, aloof, socially awkward and removed from the lives of average Americans. All that may...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog
We tend to over-emphasize personalities in our politics especially in Presidential campaigns. It matters who's President, of course, but our national elections are the product of much larger economic and social forces. They're increasingly dominated by a few financial...
by Leo Gerard | Aug 7, 2012 | Blog
In the case of fetuses and rich people, Republicans insist on the sanctity of life. But in the case of destitute people, infants who imprudently choose working-poor parents and struggling young adults – basically all riffraff unable to afford health insurance – the...
