by Terrance Heath | Mar 25, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism
The dust had not yet settled, the smoke had not yet cleared, and the body count had not yet begun before right-wingers used the terrorist attacks in Brussels to spout their usual brand of bigotry. Normally, when there’s a mass shooting or an act of right-wing...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 25, 2016 | Blog, Education
After years of electing people who declare that “government is the problem” and who avow to “drown it in a bathtub,” the results are apparent that, yeah, government might not work so well when you have people who hate it in charge. New reports reveal that years of...
by Bill Scher | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Karl Rove is making sense. In his Wall Street Journal column, Rove makes the mathematically accurate point that Donald Trump has no claim to the Republican nomination if he goes to the convention with only a plurality of delegates and not a majority. A majority, The...
by Robert Reich | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
[fve]https://youtu.be/5KiXBqCS_wg[/fve] The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and Ted Cruz – are larger, as a proportion of the government budget and the total economy, than any tax cuts ever...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog, Economy, People's Budget
You've heard people ask, "How come they can come up with a couple trillion dollars to invade Iraq, or hundreds of billions for corporate tax cuts, but say we're broke when we need to fix our infrastructure so pipes don't contaminate children with lead poisoning?" The...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/B-UXE6OuA7E[/fve] A ghost of the Cold War – the nuclear arms race – could come back to haunt us in a very big way if it is not brought out of the shadows in this presidential election, according to Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares...
