by Robert Reich | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
[fve]https://youtu.be/r1tSgUtBfOc[/fve] The Republican Party still has time to change its mind. Right now it’s supporting for President of the United States a man 1. who divides us by race and ethnicity and religion. He says undocumented Americans “bring drugs,...
by Bernie Horn | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The murderer in Orlando on Sunday used a Sig Sauer version of the AR-15 assault weapon. The story is so awfully familiar. The mass murderers in San Bernardino who killed 14 and wounded 21 used AR-15 assault rifles. In Aurora, Colorado, a man with an AR-15 killed 12...
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...
