by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog
The Heritage Foundation today spread a falsehood about a change the Obama administration is instituting in the 1996 welfare reform law that has rapidly spread through the right-wing blogosphere. Letting Heritage and the right wing get away with this lie would do...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog
If your neighbor’s house is on fire, you don’t haggle over the price of your garden hose. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt I wasn’t planning on writing about this today, but take a moment to Andrew Leonard’s Salon piece, "Thank God for Taxes." Read it from beginning to...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 13, 2012 | Blog
If only. If only Brian Moynihan designed fashionable shoes, Jamie Dimon pitched a mean slider, and Lloyd Blankfein had written the song "Boyfriend" for Justin Bieber. Then they'd prosecute bank fraud. The Justice Department used as many people to investigate one...
by Jeff Bryant | Jul 12, 2012 | Blog, Education
Left-leaning people everywhere recently got a hoot when the Texas Republican Party declared its opposition to the teaching of "Higher Order Thinking Skills," including "critical thinking skills," in public schools. Although a party spokesperson later back-peddled from...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 12, 2012 | Blog
Almost six years ago, the nation watched poor, mostly African-Americans suffer and die waiting for government help in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Meanwhile, conservative pundits declared that Katrina victims only had themselves to blame. Then Sen. Barack Obama...
