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The Pumafinks
June 30th, 2008
Watergate-style dirty tricks have been by now baked into the cake of conservative politicking. I say this as a preface to a demonstration about how it might be happening in the here and now, the better so we can ward it off.... read more »
Decline and Fall of America's Energy Empire
June 18th, 2008
Beyond today's political squabbles over such topics as offshore drilling or oil speculation is this hard fact: the Age of Oil — and an American empire built on oil — is coming to an end, and there is no turning back. Americans can either get out in front of this change and come out of it at the century's end with much of their greatness intact — or continue to fight it and end up as another of history's has-beens.... read more »
Ignore The Failed Former Oilman In Front of the White House
By Bill Scher
June 18th, 2008
After doing nothing for energy policy in eight years, Bush has the gall to sell coastal drilling as a necessary evil in the "short run."
» RELATED: "Drill Now. Wait 10 Years." ... read more »
Debating Grover Norquist, America's Leading Fake Populist
By David Sirota
June 16th, 2008
SEATTLE - This week on my national book tour, I had the opportunity to debate conservative leader Grover Norquist on KUOW - Seattle's NPR affiliate. read more »
Not So Stories: "2nd Highest" Corporate Tax Rate
By Bill Scher
June 16th, 2008
Conservatives keep saying America has the second highest corporate tax rate. But it is not so. Why do they hate America so much that they can't tell the full truth?... read more »
Jason Furman and Obamanomics
June 12th, 2008
The criticism of the appointment of Jason Furman as economic policy director for the Barack Obama presidential campaign reflects submerged concerns about Obama’s own posture on globalization. The real question is whether Obama understands that the current U.S. global strategy is unsustainable. ... read more »
The Meaning of Box 722
June 5th, 2008
For at least six months now I've been planning, and putting off, this post. The imminent occasion of the first African American major-party nominee forces my hand. It's time for me to help give a sense of just how far we have come. read more »
The Debate Ahead
By Bill Scher
June 4th, 2008
The first speeches of the general election campaign preview a real clash of progressive and conservative visions for America. What do you see?... read more »
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jul
5
2008
My patriotic post
I'm inspired by Digby's re-post of some 2006 reflections on why unregulated state surveillance isn't such a great idea, and our president's warning that maitaining the ancient and honorable right of habeus corpus means terrorists might soon be walking Main Streat USA, to re-post a patriotic reminder of my own.read more »
jul
3
2008
All In The Same Sinking Boat
A disturbing but sadly predictable jobs report was released today by the Department of Labor: 62,000 jobs lost in June, 438,000 jobs lost during the past 6 months. read more »
jul
3
2008
Hundreds Tell Fox: "Stop The Attacks"
More than 600 people from all over the country have responded in the first 48 hours of our call to tell Fox News to stop branding progressives as unpatriotic, and instead contribute to a respectful debate about the future direction of the country. read more »
jul
2
2008
McContainers
Contest: caption this photograph...
Here's my entry: In a bid for Midwestern voters devastated by runaway manufacturing jobs, John McCain and Joe Lieberman pose with shipping containers in Third World country seeking free trade deal.
jul
2
2008
Angry McCain: He Once Assaulted Sandinista Official During Diplomatic Talks
Just remember, the stories of McCain's calling his wife the c-word and attacking Rick Renzi in 2006 first reported in my book, The Real McCain, they are damn lies as the McCainiacs have claimed (well, actually, read more »
jul
2
2008
Uprising Against Oil & Gas Drilling Intensifies In the West
ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis archway, which I visited yesterday, may bill itself as the gateway to the West, but the real gateway this election to the West for Democrats could be through oil and gas politics. read more »
jul
1
2008
And now...the rest of the story
Here's the rest of my answer to my friend who asked me to explain why conservatives are in disarray. Nothing that will be new to longtime readers, who—newbies, too!—are invited to contribute their own reflection in the comments: read more »
jul
1
2008
McCain Pledges Allegiance to NAFTA
Arizona Sen. John McCain continues his rousing campaign tour of the swing states of NAFTA this week. He will celebrate July 3 in Mexico City after a jaunt through Colombia to pledge support for the pending free trade accord with that center of cocaine trade. He surely will increase his margin over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama among business elites in Mexico and Canada. read more »
jul
1
2008
Bills Come Due
A friend recently asked me to summarize why conservatives seem to be in such disarray these days. I listed four reasons, in separate paragraphs; "BIlls come due," was how I began the fourth: read more »
