by Terrance Heath | Mar 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Republicans love to complain about people who get money from the government and refuse to work. That is, unless they’re doing so, by refusing to consider the president’s Supreme Court Nominee. Tell U.S. senators to do their jobs, and give President Obama’s Supreme...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 22, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Steven Pearlstein, in the ominously titled "What Bernie Sanders would do to America" at The Washington Post, warns that asking our government to do things like raising the minimum wage to $15, extending public education by four years, providing Medicare-for-All and...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 22, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, This Is The GOP
Senate Republicans are flipping off the President of the United States by refusing to conduct a confirmation hearing for his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. By doing this, the majority party in the Senate is saying it doesn’t acknowledge that Barack Obama is the...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Fifty-two years after Lester Maddox famously chased African-Americans out of his restaurant with an ax handle, the phrase “We don’t serve your kind here” may be heard once again in Georgia. On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled Georgia General Assembly...
by Bill Scher | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog, Climate
We in America do a poor job chronicling what works and building on success. So kudos to Mother Jones and its reporter Gabriel Kahn for covering how California and its governor Jerry Brown have created a template for cutting carbon emissions, creating green jobs and...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 20, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade
For some time now most of the people in this country have been under economic pressure. Pay is not going up very much or at all, while living costs keep rising. One recent statistic stands out – 63 percent of Americans would have difficulty raising $500 to cover an...
