by Terrance Heath | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, House Democrats and Republicans faced off over reasonable gun laws. Democrats held a sit-in to force a showdown with Republican leadership. Republicans blinked. If anyone in the House knows how to stand up to powerful opposition with moral strength, Rep....
by Terrance Heath | Jun 17, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
While the rest of the country, and the rest of the world stood with Orlando in grief and solidarity, right-wingers tried to outdo each other with awful reactions. In the late hours of Saturday night, a gunman, who allegiance to ISIS, walked in to The Pulse — a popular...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Nearly one year after the Charleston massacre, we are reminded again that hatred is deadly. Now we must affirm that no one who "returns hate for hate" is qualified to lead. On Friday, it will have been one year since a 21-year-old racist walked in to Emanuel African...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
My phone started buzzing almost as soon as the lights went down. I was in Baltimore with my family to watch Cirque du Soleil’s “Toruk” when the alerts started coming in about another mass shooting, this time at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We’d just found our...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Republicans now face an impossible task: denouncing racism while supporting a racist. They have no one but themselves to blame. On Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned Donald Trump’s remarks about a federal judge as “textbook” racism, just days after dismissing...
