“This is our middle class, our average Arkansan. Our neighbors, our friends, our families, our co-workers who we’re seeing here.”

How desperate is the US Chamber of Commerce in its fight against health care reform? The Chamber now warns of the increased cost of blue jeans if reform passes.

It is one thing that the Obama administration decided not to try to pursue many proven cost-cutting solutions because they are too politically difficult; governing is the art of the possible. But pretending these proven cost-controlling ideas don’t even exist is governmental malpractice.If you trade away most of the cost controlling reforms to bring the different industries on board, you have no right to go around complaining when people say your reform plan does not do enough to control cost.

Keith Hitchcock is a resident of Little Rock and an amputee, he needs a prosthesis but can’t get it because he doesn’t have insurance.

Frustrated by the lack of action in Washington after a mandate for change in 2008, liberals and Democrats inside and outside of government have begun to question the Senate filibuster rule, which they attribute to the growing legislative paralysis.

Tomorrow is the date set for the fake elections being held by the Honduran coup régime that overthrew legitimately elected President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya for various alleged “crimes”, but really for daring to raise the minimum wage in a country whose wealth is so unevenly distributed that just a dozen families — ten of which support the coup — control almost all of its business activity.

Children’s nutrition, home stability, and good jobs go hand in hand. We’re failing at all three.

What are some of your favorite creations for all of that leftover food from Thursday? Let’s share.

Pull Up A Chair…

Featuring new videos from WHY? and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings.

Sitting at the Thanksgiving table last night, there came a time, perhaps inevitable, where some friends started asking me about the latest developments in the healthcare debate. Where are we at? What’s going to happened next? Will they pass a bill? Will we get a public option? What if we pass a bill, but it [...]