by Richard Eskow | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog, Economy
I walked around lower Manhattan for a long time last Friday looking for the #OccupyWallStreet protests. It was an experiment: Had Mayor Bloomberg and the forces of "security" hidden the demonstrators so effectively that they couldn't be found, even if you went there...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 23, 2011 | Blog
Progressive activists are accustomed to raising the bull-droppings deflection shield whenever a conservative utters a sentence containing the words "job creators." We know what's coming—and there's a lot of it. Just in the 24-hour period between Thursday afternoon and...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 23, 2011 | Blog
It's getting hard to keep track of all the cringe-worthy moments at the GOP debates. To that end I've created a kind "Low-lights" reel of such moments from the last few. (I fully expect to update this regularly.) The latest, of course, is the booing of a gay...
by Bill Scher | Sep 23, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Watching the Republican presidential primary debate last night, I heard many of the candidates say they'd be the second coming of Ronald Reagan. But what they said sounded a lot more like the second coming of George W. Bush, he of the "worst jobs record on record"...
