by Terrance Heath | Mar 7, 2014 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Paul Ryan says that "the left" is offering Americans "a full stomach and an empty soul." The truth is that conservatives like Paul Ryan are offering Americans empty stomachs and empty rhetoric . The American people want more than that. Near the end of his Thursday...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 6, 2014 | Conservatism
In the introduction to “The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later,” House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan identifies the “breakdown of the family” as the key cause of poverty. It’s poverty that causes the “breakdown” of many families, not the other way around. Ryan...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 28, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
When the week began, Arizona governor Jan Brewer thought she had all the time in the world to decide whether to veto Arizona’s “Gay Jim Crow” bill. By the middle of the week, Brewer learned differently. Conservatives lost it. SB 1062, Arizona’s bill that would allow...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 28, 2014 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
Arizona and Uganda are nine thousand miles apart, but they were side by side in the news this week, due to extremist anti-gay laws that spring from and are supported by the religious right. Uganda, Nigeria, etc. On Monday, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed an...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
GOP Tax Plan DOA A Republican’s Tax Overhaul Envisions Big Changes [NY Times]: "Big banks would face a new tax on lending. Taxes paid to state and local governments would no longer be deductible. The earned income credit for low-wage workers would be converted to a...
