by Martha Burk | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
Congress is set to blow town this week or early next until after the election – without taking up the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- a giant twelve-nation trade agreement between the U.S. and Pacific Rim nations. Even though the TPP appears dead in the water,...
by Ben Ishibashi | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog, Climate
Activists assemble outside the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday as the court began hearings on the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. Eighty People’s Action leaders from seven states took to the steps of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and to...
by Bill Scher | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
Donald Trump revels in making offensive comments. "I don't have time to be politically correct," is practically his slogan. Accused at the debate of insulting a Miss Universe winner for gaining weight, afterwards he made no apologies: "She was the worst we ever had...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
Little Zianna Oliphant, speaking through her tears at a city council meeting in Charlotte, said more about what’s really happening with policing in black communities than Donald Trump did in 90 minutes at Monday nights debate. The candidates had a lot to say, at last...
by Frank Clemente | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Tax Reform, This Is The GOP
As usual, Donald Trump stretched, distorted and outright denied the truth in the debate Monday night. Some of his biggest whoppers were about taxes: both his own and his plans for everyone else’s. Here are the five most wrong-headed things Trump said about taxes:...
by LeeAnn Hall | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
The Clean Power Plan, President Barack Obama’s effort to cap carbon emissions from dirty power plants, came before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. The panel of 10 judges asked tough questions of both defenders and challengers of the EPA program....
