BY FROMA HARROP By the time you read this, the Senate may have passed a bill to put a leash on the nastiest credit-card company tactics. Lenders warn that changing the rules would make it harder for people to get credit. And a good thing that would be. Rest assured, we’ll all adjust. The House […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now claiming that intelligence officials misled her about the use of waterboarding when she was briefed in 2002. Previously, it was reported that she, as the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee at the time, had been told about waterboarding as an interrogation technique and had raised […]

BY JOE CONASON Uplifting as it was to see insurance executives, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospital officials and doctors gather at the White House on May 11, pledging cooperation toward health care reform, nothing they said or did was inconsistent with precisely the opposite objective. According to the famed pollster who is helping Republicans in Congress to […]

BY FROMA HARROP While the recession has rattled every rung of economic ladder, it has ravaged the bottom bars. Unemployment stands at just over 4% for college graduates but at nearly 15% for those lacking high-school diplomas. In poor black neighborhoods, it’s around 30% and approaching Great Depression levels. So let’s talk about illegal immigration […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER “Regulate the health insurance giants,” chanted the reformers. “Stop denying coverage to sick people,” they demanded. “Stop jacking up premiums,” they cried. “Health coverage for all,” they bellowed. It was an impressive show that the health care reform movement put on last week at a hearing before the Senate finance committee. It […]