by Richard Eskow | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Here it comes again. This holiday weekend we'll see a lot of media coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr. But we'll hear very little about what he really was - a brave and visionary leader whose vision is as relevant today as ever. One year ago I listed ten quotes by Dr....
by | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
As I've noted numerous times, conservatives are very confused these days. Of course, many liberals are confused as well. (I won't even talk about the libertarians.) Seems to be the zeitgeist. Perhaps tough times and elite failure always have this effect. And who...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. laid down this marker during his "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963: In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of...
by Bill Scher | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney says that anyone who criticizes his record while CEO of Bain Capital is putting "free enterprise on trial." But this doesn't make any sense. I have yet to have seen an argument from anyone on the left or the right criticizing Romney based on the notion...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There's one Newt Gingrich flip-flop I left out of my previous post about his latest flip-flop, concerning his on-again-off-again-on-again attack on Mitt Romney as a vulture capitalist. It's a big one, and — in typical Newt fashion — he says it really...
