by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
No one knows why a group of about 10 teenagers surrounded Trell Thomas at a bus stop in downtown Washington earlier this month and beat him so badly that his jaw was broken, causing permanent damage. But Trell has given a lot of thought about how to respond to the...
by Bill Scher | Sep 27, 2011 | Blog
No government shutdown. No workers forced to take unpaid furlough. No additional blow to our struggling economy. Another crisis averted. Right? Not quite. Congressional Republicans may not be replicating the disastrous shutdown strategy of their Newt Gingrich-led...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 27, 2011 | Blog
Another GOP debate has rolled around (and another clip has been added to the "Low-Lights" reel from my previous post). This time it wasn't just the audience response that should have been embarrassing to any sane political party, but a candidate's...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 27, 2011 | Blog
Hundreds of executions in Texas -- Republican crowd cheers. An uninsured person in a coma -- Republican crowd shouts "Let him die!" And now, labor leaders murdered in Colombia -- Republicans say "A good start..." See the comments under an article at The Hill about how...