by Dave Johnson | Jul 3, 2012 | Blog
It's Independence Day! What better time is there to do something to help your country by buying American-made goods? MSNBC: One mom's challenge: Buy only "Made in USA" for one week When Joey Fortman was challenged to buy only American-made products for a week, she...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 3, 2012 | Blog
America commemorates its Independence Day this week with food, festivity and fireworks. To supply these events, Mitt Romney recommends: Buy foreign. Americans naturally think the patriotic choice would be to buy American. But for Romney, capitalism trumps patriotism....
by Bill Scher | Jul 2, 2012 | Blog
President Obama has endured much criticism of his legislative skills from his fellow progressives. His conciliatory approach has been compared unfavorably with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s gleeful pugnacity and Lyndon B. Johnson’s relentless arm-twisting. His willingness...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 2, 2012 | Blog
Millions of people have read the Hunger Games stories, about a depraved future society where young people are forcing to fight each other for scarce resources while elites in the Capital plunder the nation's wealth. Now take a look at our world, where Washington's...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 1, 2012 | Blog
America's revolutionary generation, new research documents, lived in a society much more equal than our own. And early Americans prized that equality, an inconvenient reality for conservatives today. Not too long ago, Americans only dressed up in George Washington...
