by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 5, 2008 | Blog
A stubborn conservative minority in the U.S. Senate in December stood in the way of sensible energy legislation that would shift tax breaks away from Big Oil, which doesn't need them, and toward renewable energy companies that do. All indications are they would do it...
by Sara Robinson | Mar 5, 2008 | Blog
This is Part II of a series on the strategies used by the conservatives to promote their worldview, and the lessons progressives can learn from them to promote our own. Part I is here. As we saw in the previous post, the entire conservative movement was organized...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 4, 2008 | Blog
Part Four of a series. Let's return, once more, to our metaphorical intersection from parts two and three of the series. Except, where we once imagined a doomed pedestrian just preparing to cross the intersection, let's imagine a group of pedestrians stuck in the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 4, 2008 | Blog
Like an “American Idol” reject, John McCain keeps warbling George W. Bush’s greatest flops. The latest is Social Security privatization, a proposal so roundly rejected by the American people when Bush tried to foist it on the nation in 2005 that even a solidly...
by Sara Robinson | Feb 29, 2008 | Blog
Make no mistake: When the conservatives set out to take over America 30 years ago, they were working off of a well-thought-out plan. The plan was put in place by a wide variety of thinkers—but three of the main strategists were Howard Phillips, Richard Viguerie,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 29, 2008 | Blog
One in 100 is bad enough. One in nine is a full-blown national tragedy — one aided and abetted by conservative ideology. You know, if you've read today's headlines, that the "one in 100" figure represents the percentage of American adults now serving time in prison,...
