by Terrance Heath | Feb 9, 2012 | Blog
In my previous post, I wrote that I'm likely to hear an old favorite conservative talking point repeated over and over again while I'm at CPAC: Married cures poverty, economic inequality, and just about any other economic complaint you can name — especially for black...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog, Economy
"You gotta have a J-O-B, if you wanna be with me." - Gwen Guthrie, "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent" I'm off to cover CPAC tomorrow, where — in light of a federal court ruling California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional — I'm likely to hear a favorite conservative...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog
Funny how things change. When Herman Cain and Rick Perry imploded in one week last November, Jon Stewart called Mitt Romney "the luckiest motherfudger on Earth." That was before last night's "shellacking," when Rick Santorum trounced Romney in Minnessota, Missouri,...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog
Just in case you missed the news, "Insider trading" is back. It's even bipartisan. Well, the truth is that it never really went away after its heyday during the 1980s, when Gordon Gekko served as a stand-in for era villains like Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky. It...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 6, 2012 | Blog
I wrote earlier that Newt Gingrich's campaign is one of mutually assured destruction for the GOP. No one, I wrote, has to lift a finger to destroy Newt Gingrich. Just stand back, give him room, and he'll do it himself. The thing is, you want to stand way, way back —...
