by Digby | Dec 20, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, The Jobs Challenge
Greg Sargent reports that the fight to extend Unemployment Insurance may not be quite done yet: Democrats and liberal groups are still not giving up. They are planning a concerted, multi-faceted push over the break designed to pressure Republicans — not Congress;...
by Joshua Holland | Dec 19, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
How the Harshest Immigration Law in the US Ended in Disaster (via Moyers & Company) MSNBC reporter Benjy Sarlin traveled down to Alabama to see the impact of the most punitive law against unauthorized immigrants in the US firsthand. When it was enacted, the Alabama...
by Digby | Dec 19, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, The Jobs Challenge
AEI (yes, AEI) offers up some evidence that austerity policies are bunk. Not kidding: Earlier this year, as The New York Times reported, the North Carolina legislature cut unemployment benefits, reducing (a) the maximum payout by a third and (b) the number of weeks...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 17, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy
It was a hard knock life at Christmas in 1933, and it’s a hard knock holiday 80 years later. In the musical “Annie,” set in 1933 during the Great Depression, the cast sings about it: “The children don’t grin; The Santas are thin. . . And all through the land folks are...
by Bill Moyers | Dec 16, 2013 | Conservatism
Gunpowder and Blood on Their Cold, Dead Hands (via Moyers & Company) This grim anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., killings, with 28 dead, reminded us of that moment back in 2000 when Charlton Heston made his defiant boast at the NRA convention that gun control...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 13, 2013 | Conservatism
So, this is Christmas. And Fox News host "Megyn" Kelly is determined to have a "White Christmas." Kelly set the internet ablaze when she insisted that the two biggest names of the season — Santa Claus and Jesus — are absolutely white. My fellow blogger, Bill Sher, has...
