by Isaiah J. Poole | May 18, 2012 | Blog
From the House Republicans whose leader, Speaker John Boehner, just three days ago claimed that "we can’t go on spending money we don’t have," and "our economy is stuck in large part because it’s stuck with debt," comes this: The House on Friday approved a sweeping...
by Terrance Heath | May 18, 2012 | Blog
My first reaction to the now-famous Washington Post story of how an 18-year-old Mitt Romney bullied and assaulted a fellow student at the prestigious Cranbrook School was personal. The story is well known by now. Romney objected to John Lauber's bleach blonde hair,...
by Dave Johnson | May 17, 2012 | Blog
There is a news report that yet another right-wing billionaire is going to spend even more millions to run even more poisonous, divisive, racist, degrading, insulting, lying, character-assassination ads designed to turn people against government and democracy. And an...
by Roger Hickey | May 17, 2012 | Blog
The following was drafted for delivery at the Protest The Fiscal Summit demonstration outside the Peter G. Peterson Fiscal Summit in Washington on May 15. Thank you, Sen. Sanders. And welcome to all of you to Andrew Mellon Auditorium, named after one of the wealthiest...
by Robert Borosage | May 17, 2012 | Blog, Economy
The dire threat facing America, according to Mitt Romney and Republicans this week, is debt, not mass unemployment. We face "a prairie fire of debt," Mitt Romney warned in Iowa. Debt is "a grave threat to freedom," intoned House Speaker John Boehner in Washington,...
