by Jeff Bryant | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog, Education
There's a reason why accountants traditionally wore green eyeshades. In their "vision-intensive, detail-oriented" work, they were prone to "eyestrain" caused by scrupulous attention to columns and rows of numbers on a ledger. Now, of course, the strain is lessened by...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog
Bain Capital must seem like a Frankenstein monster to Mitt Romney's campaign. Like Mary Shelley's creature, it's stalking its creator just as he's about to claim the thing he loves most. But Bain Capital—and Bain capitalism—isn't Mitt's creation. It was sewed together...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog
Republicans continue to expose the real Romney: In Politico, Richard Viguerie, the New Right mass mail mogul, makes the case that Romney is a lowlife "crony capitalist" To Mitt Romney, venture capitalist, the average worker is an expendable line on a spreadsheet,...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog
It's starting to look like Newt Gingrich has more in common with Mitt Romney than just a background in vulture capitalism. During the Iowa primaries, Gingrich attacked Romney's "flip-flops" on a number of issues, but Newt has his own list of "flip-flops." Yesterday he...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Former Campaign for America's Future staffer Anne Thompson got a scoop this past weekend when she asked presidential candidate Mitt Romney about his position on the minimum wage, and he responded by saying he supported indexing the minimum wage "so it adjusts...
by Alan Jenkins | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog
On January 3rd, America lost one of the greatest champions of equal opportunity and human rights that our nation has ever known. Judge Robert L. Carter, civil rights lawyer, jurist, and fierce defender of justice, passed away at age 94 after suffering a stroke. Judge...
