by Terrance Heath | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Americans were appalled this week, when video surfaced of Oklahoma University SAE fraternity brothers singing an incredibly racist tune. Wingnuts were appalled that the rest of the us were appalled. Family Research Council senior fellow Ken Blackwell blamed SAE’s...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog
Anyone who grew up in the 1960s, during the time of the Cold War, remembers our nation's response to the threat of nuclear war by enforcing "duck and cover" drills in our schools. The drill would start with the shrill whistle blast over the PA speaker at the front of...
by Bill Scher | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Winning the Congress has mainly given Republican a bushelful of problems, and a big one is right around the corner: How are they ever going to pass a budget? For years, the Republican House mocked the Senate Democrats for failing to pass a budget. It was an overblown...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 12, 2015 | Blog, Education
What fun we had recently with North Carolina's recently elected U.S. senator, Republican Thom Tillis, who insisted we didn't need government regulations to compel restaurant employees to wash their hands in between using the toilet and preparing our food. His solution...
by Chuck Collins | Mar 12, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Education
There’s a generational time-bomb ticking — and the student debt crisis is the trip wire. Adults under 35 disproportionately bear the brunt of escalating inequality. America’s educated youth are graduating into an economy with stagnant wages and a torn safety net....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 12, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
Washington looks like a city that has done remarkably well in the absence of a national urban agenda. The last decade has seen most of its once derelict neighborhoods undergo a striking revival, and the city is a fundamentally different place from what it was even 10...
