by Robert Borosage | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog
Polls show Democrats want a contest, not a coronation, for their presidential nomination. The press yearns for a primary contest, if only to have something to cover. A raft of reasons are floated for why a challenge would be useful, most of them spurious. Hillary...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
More than 50 years ago, Alabama governor George Wallace literally stood “in the schoolhouse door,” to prevent the integration of the University of Alabama. Wallace argued that “states’ rights” allowed Alabama to keep its schools segregated, and that the federal...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog, Climate
By framing measles vaccinations as a matter of choice, Senator Rand Paul made himself — along with all politicians who value individual liberty more than the common good — look silly. Bruce Jenner is sporting nail polish and a ponytail. If the Olympic gold medalist...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
[fve]http://youtu.be/5o6vJw9mkzU[/fve] The Conservative/Wall Street/1 Percent/Republican anti-government strategy is to set government up to fail (usually by starving it of funding). Then they point to the resulting "crisis" they created and say it proves that...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Health, Jobs and Growth
The president is right. Staples is cutting workers’ hours (and paychecks) to avoid providing health insurance. Shame on them, but that’s only half the story. Earlier this week, Buzzfeed reported that the office supply giant Staples Inc., has begun limiting part-time...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, Education
My colleague Bill Scher recently called our attention to an opinion piece by Thomas Edsall in The New York Times that revealed "the Republican appropriation of leftist populist rhetoric." Republicans "plan to bring the fight to the Democrats on their own turf,"...
