Steve Clemons: US-Japan Friendship Dolls Then & How to Help Today
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 17th, 2011 4:45 am by HL
Steve Clemons: US-Japan Friendship Dolls Then & How to Help Today
In a heart-moving gesture a few years after the great Kanto earthquake of 1923 in Japan, American children made 12,000 blue-eyed dolls and sent…
Ethan Rome: Bachmann Calls Boehner Soft on ‘Obamacare.’ Huh?
Tuesday Meghan McCarthy wrote a story in the National Journal that asked, “Are GOP Leaders Going Soft on ‘Obamacare?'” “Top tea partiers in Congress,” she…
Late Returns: Pushing Away From Palin
After two years of offering hesitant, qualified praise for Sarah Palin and her place in the GOP movement, conservatives are starting the process of putting…
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Fukushima USA: Hell or High Water
Some politicians are so determined to serve their corporate patrons that even disasters like Fukushima can’t lessen their deregulatory zeal. The expression for that kind…
Edward R. Hamberger: Freight Rail Investments Helping America Meet the Challenges Ahead
Whether through legislation or regulation, proposals in Washington are creating an air of uncertainty in the marketplace, potentially harming those businesses that rely on rail to get their goods to the global market, and ultimately consumers.