by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016
The Clinton campaign is accusing the Sanders campaign of "going negative." It's all over the news today. Did Sanders really "go negative"? Or is this Clinton accusation just an attempt to "muddy the waters" as Clinton's attacks on Sanders' health care plans backfire?...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Seven contenders lined up in the main Republican debate Thursday night in Charleston, South Carolina. Donald Trump, still leading in national polls, may not have won the night, but he has surely dictated its terms. The candidates were trumped-up, the vitriol hot, the...
by Michael Winship | Jan 14, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
On May 21, 1946, less than a year after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, physicist Louis Slotin performed a dangerous experiment his colleagues at Los Alamos called “tickling the dragon’s tail.” He took two half-spheres of beryllium, each...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 14, 2016 | Blog, Education
When President Barack Obama recently made an impassioned plea to do something about the proliferation of gun violence in America, he drew upon the images of elementary school children gunned down in Newtown, Connecticut to engage our emotions. "First graders," he...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 14, 2016 | Blog, Health, Progressive Vision
As the Iowa caucuses draw near and as Bernie Sanders closes in on Hillary Clinton in the polls, Clinton has started "attacking" (media word) Sanders' proposals for providing universal health care through a Medicare-for-All plan. The corporate media largely covers the...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Crybabies. That’s the perfect word to describe conservatives' reaction to President Obama’s final State of the Union address — as well as the official GOP response by South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. It started even before the president even delivered his address....
