by Terrance Heath | Apr 15, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Governor Pat McCrory’s sleight of hand won’t fix North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law, save his political career, or keep his state from hemorrhaging jobs and money. If it isn't repealed, the state might find itself literally "out of business." To hear Republican North...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich says he wouldn’t have signed North Carolina’s new anti-LGBT law. That still doesn’t make him the moderate he wants people to think he is. Kasich said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 8, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week the South rose again and tried to go back in time about 50 year, as several former confederate states tried to legislate a queer new twist on Jim Crow; so much for southern hospitality. Once again, a toxic blend of religion and bigotry takes hold below the...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the only federal agency out to protect the financial interests American consumers. Naturally, big banks and moneyed interests want to shut it down. A new campaign says, “Not without a fight.” If any good came out of the...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
It sounds like a match between a second-rate comic book hero-and-villain pair: the Golden Boy vs. the Orange Man. Thus it’s fitting in more ways than one that former House Speaker (and first “orange” speaker) John Boehner perhaps started the ball rolling. At a Futures...