Many conservatives are accusing poor folks (and organizations such as ACORN dedicated to assisting poor folks) of causing the current economic meltdown. But these accusations are myths. Media Matters has examined these myths.
I didn't realize that Jesus had said these things (click on the image for a larger version): Empathy, anyone?
Huffpo published this piece on a businessman who takes anti-consumerism seriously: Travel company operator Hal Taussig buys his clothes from thrift shops, resoles his shoes and reads magazines for free at the public library. The 83-year-old founder of Untours also gives away all of his company's profits to help the…
Missouri's overloaded public defender system is threatening to stop taking new cases, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This is “an unprecedented move that could put courts from St. Louis to Kansas City into turmoil.” With an average workload of 305 cases, the lawyers who represent 80 percent of the state's…