by Terrance Heath | May 20, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Just when it seemed things couldn’t get any weirder, it turns out Donald Trump likely masqueraded as his own publicist, during phone calls with reporters — proving he probably belongs in a shrink’s office, instead of the Oval Office. It sounds like the kind of thing a...
by Dave Johnson | May 20, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Here we are in "Infrastructure Week" and here we are with a new argument for a massive infrastructure investment project – worldwide. Last week Peter Coy wrote at Bloomberg, in "How to Pull the World Economy Out of Its Rut," about economist Larry Summers' argument...
by Dave Johnson | May 19, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has released a report predicting the effect the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will have on the U.S. economy. In the past these reports have been skewed to promote trade agreements, with numbers that turned out to be much...
by Bill Scher | May 19, 2016 | Blog
In an interview with Reuters, Donald Trump pledge to take apart President Obama's Wall Street reform: The New York billionaire said he planned to release a detailed policy platform in two weeks that would propose dismantling nearly all of Dodd-Frank, a package of...
by Jeff Bryant | May 19, 2016 | Blog, Education
You've probably heard about the fierce battle over school bathrooms raging across the country. It's an important story for sure because transgender students should not be blocked from entering facilities of their gender identity. But the current fight over gender...
by Terrance Heath | May 18, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Founding Father Thomas Jefferson is often credited with saying, “The government closest to the people serves them best.” Republicans in North Carolina — and elsewhere — think they know better. In Charlotte, North Carolina, “the government closest to the people”...
