by Bill Scher | Jun 23, 2014 | Blog
President Obama and Senate Democrats have effectively given House Republicans until July 31 to act on immigration reform, or else Obama will take unilateral executive action to ease deportations. That's only five weeks away, and it's not yet clear if the House GOP...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 22, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Currency manipulation is a big deal. It is costing up to 5.8 million American jobs and costs U.S. GDP by up to $720 billion. So what is currency manipulation and how does it work? A currency is the local "medium" of exchange. Different countries use different...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is back in the news, following a prosecutor’s allegations that Walker was at the center of a “criminal scheme" to bypass state election laws, by illegally coordinating spending between conservative groups and his campaign in 2012. Is...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog, Education
An interesting twist in the ever-fascinating narrative of Republican politics unfolded in Mississippi this month when political operatives in the campaign to reelect U.S. Senator Thad Cochran to another term attacked their primary challenger for wanting to "deeply cut...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 19, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Another secret trade deal has leaked to WikiLeaks and it looks as if it is one more effort to lock into law the interests of certain already-huge corporations above the interests of governments, their citizens and potentially competing businesses. As with leaks from...
by Bill Scher | Jun 19, 2014 | Blog
36,120 Virginia Republican primary voters just tossed out the House majority leader, a sign that the GOP civil war continues to simmer. But earlier this month, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat opined that it's the Democratic coalition that is a...
