by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 12, 2016 | Economy, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision
At first glance, a poll released this week by USA Today and Rock the Vote, done by Ipsos, seems to confound our narrative that a majority of millennials identify more with progressives than conservatives. In fact, when asked that question point-blank when it comes to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Public Sector Unions Face the Supreme Court DailyKos' Laura Clawson sees the Supreme Court readying "another blow against unions." But there's one ray of hope: "Friedrichs is expected to come down to a 5-4 vote, but the expected swing vote comes from an unexpected...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 8, 2016 | Conservatism, Economy, Election 2016
Republican leaders, including six of the GOP presidential candidates, on Saturday will engage in one of their occasional displays of "compassionate conservatism," in which they seek to convince voters that they actually do care about people struggling to climb out of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 17, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
With Congress about to vote this week on a federal budget for the current fiscal year, perhaps we can be thankful that Tuesday's Republican presidential debate spared us extended disingenuous talk about "out-of-control government spending." Some variation of that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Good Sense Carpet-Bombed in GOP Debate Frank Bruni at The New York Times on Ted Cruz's plan to "carpet-bomb" ISIS: "You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops,” he said, as if there’s no mingling and the fighters of the Islamic...