by Bill Scher | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog
Republicans, have mercy on your presidential candidates. Just get this immigration debate over with so your presidential candidates don't have to flip-flop anymore. Gov. Scott Walker is the latest in a long line of Republican immigration flippers, though at least he...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The debate over fast-track trade authority – designed to grease the tracks for a vote on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) accords still in negotiation – ought to be the occasion for a fundamental review of our global economic strategy. We know that it is broken....
by Bernie Horn | Mar 1, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
Last week, when the Federal Communications Commission voted for net neutrality and changed the way the Internet is policed, conservatives fell back on their favorite myth. The right-wing media raged that it’s “a blow to the free market system.…” But there’s no such...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Papa Bear Roars Anyone with a YouTube account knows by now that Fox News Host Bill O’Reilly has a bit of a temper. [fve]http://youtu.be/2tJjNVVwRCY[/fve] When NBC news anchor Brian Williams falsely claimed that his helicopter was nearly shot down, as he covered the US...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Eight senators on Thursday let the country know there is going to be a fight over fast-track trade authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.),...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog, Climate
When 27 CSX tanker cars loaded with fracked North Dakota crude tumbled onto a West Virginia riverbank on President’s Day, the ensuing fireballs leveled a house and forced hundreds of people to flee amid a heavy snowstorm. Even though 19 of the derailed cars — each...
