by Dave Johnson | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
[fve]http://youtu.be/FbnRnhrNFEY[/fve] "Dog-whistle," "code word" politics is not about what the politician says, it's about what the listener hears. Mitt Romney says this: "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right,...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama is in Asia, partly to "reassure" partner countries that the U.S. is a strong ally and partly to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Both are to counter China's growing influence. While TPP is being sold as a "strategic" countermeasure to China,...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority
Mainstream Democratic campaign consultants and pollsters typically tell candidates they should "move to the right" and campaign to the "center" with positions that are "between" the "left" and the "right." This is the way, they say, to "attract swing voters" who would...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 22, 2014 | Blog, Climate
It's Earth Day and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is readying new greenhouse gas emissions rules for power plants, with the draft expected June 1. Forty-one percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from power plants. Nearly half of that comes from just...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 22, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The New York Times editorial board finally gets it right about trade in its Sunday editorial, "This Time, Get Global Trade Right." Some excerpts: Many Americans have watched their neighbors lose good-paying jobs as their employers sent their livelihoods to China. Over...
