by Terrance Heath | Feb 27, 2013 | The Sequester
What if someone told you that a disastrous event is just days away from happening; one that will play havoc with the economy and bring pain and hardship to millions? What if the same someone told you that our government set this disaster in motion, and could easily...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 25, 2013 | The Sequester
For folks in Washington, sequestration is kind of like gambling with someone else's money. (Congressional salaries are exempt, after all.) Republicans are betting that either (a) the sequester will be so painless that one will even notice it, or (b) that the sequester...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 21, 2013 | The Sequester
The "sequester" is a terrible idea. It will do terrible things to the economy and the lives of millions of Americans. It was a terrible idea from the beginning, when it was born of an ugly deal on the "fiscal cliff." It will be disastrous for the country, and cost up...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 14, 2013 | Blog
Watching the various Republican responses — official and otherwise — to President Obama's State of the Union address was a bit like watching a right-wing remake of The Three Faces of Eve, the 1957 classic about a woman who suffered from "multiple...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog, Conservatism
From the moment he was sworn in as president, what's bothered many conservatives most about Barack Obama was that he was a Black man who seemed pathologically incapable of "knowing his place." Conservatives from Peggy Noonan to (most recently) Grover Norquist have...
