by Terrance Heath | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
My phone started buzzing almost as soon as the lights went down. I was in Baltimore with my family to watch Cirque du Soleil’s “Toruk” when the alerts started coming in about another mass shooting, this time at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We’d just found our...
by Bill Scher | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog
A recent Gallup poll exploring issue priorities of Democrats and Republicans found that the "sharpest issue-priority disagreements," by far, were regarding climate change. While 72 percent of Democrats deem climate an "extremely or very important issue to their vote...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Republicans now face an impossible task: denouncing racism while supporting a racist. They have no one but themselves to blame. On Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned Donald Trump’s remarks about a federal judge as “textbook” racism, just days after dismissing...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
After having stated she is against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and opposes a lame-duck vote on that agreement after the election, President Obama on Thursday endorsed his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, in her bid for the presidency. Then the...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Education
High school graduation season is in full bloom in many communities around the nation, but in some places, parents with children still in schools have to be worried about the conditions of the schools they'll return to in the fall – or even if the schools will open at...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 9, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
[fve]https://youtu.be/oUW7n6X5krM[/fve] Senate Democrats are planning to roll out a package of moderately incremental campaign finance proposals they call the "We the People" plan. They hope to take this plan to the public during campaign season this Fall. The New...