Commentary
Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh? »
Ordinary, average, struggling Americans might be scratching their heads over the news today, as the Labor Department reports that unemployment is up by four-tenths of a percent for the month to a record 10.2 percent, fully three-tenths of a percent higher than economists had been forecasting, and stocks do what? Rise by a quarter of a percent! What’s going on here?...
November 7 2009 / No comment / Read More »Politics
Congress Won’t Vote On Single-Payer Health Care »
Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-New York, has agreed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to have a floor vote on his Medicare for All bill....
Nov 6 2009 / No comment / Read More »Commentary
Bigger Disaster Looms in 2010: Democrats Crash and Burn in Virginia and New Jersey »
It would be easy to read too much into the few statewide races that were decided last night, but I think it’s fair to...
Nov 4 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »Nation
Chomsky: Iraq Invasion ‘Major Crime’ Designed to Control Middle East Oil »
Political activist Noam Chomsky says that although President Obama views the Iraq invasion merely as “a mistake” or “strategic blunder,” it is, in fact,...
Nov 3 2009 / 4 comments / Read More »
