by Bill Scher | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODbmKWOyAZI[/fve] Many people are having a good laugh watching Sarah Palin's unintentionally hilarious speech to a conservative gathering in Iowa over the weekend. But Palin is never going to get anywhere near the White House....
by Dave Johnson | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Trade
Negotiators working on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) convened today in New York City. Even the location was kept secret until the last possible minute, but hundreds of trade, labor, environmental, health, communities of color, anti-GMO and food justice,...
by Bernie Horn | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
For years, conservatives used “wedge issues” to split moderates from progressives—measures like criminalizing flag burning, cutting “welfare,” and (until recently) banning same-sex marriage. They still do that, of course, but the Tea Party has forced conservatives to...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
From anti-choice bills in the House, to threats of lawsuits over Muslim “no go zones,” this week showed that the wingnut brain is biggest “no go zone” of them all. But first, let’s relive the “burn” heard around the world. When President Obama delivered the State of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/187517644" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] House Progressive Caucus member Rep. Jan Schakowsky...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Jobs and Growth
In the last few days Senate Republicans have voted against everything they have promised in public to sell the Keystone pipeline. They said the pipeline is about U.S. jobs, yet they voted against U.S. steel and supplier jobs in the pipeline supply chain. They said the...
