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...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 19, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
Medtronic is as American a company as they come. The surgeon who created its original technology was born and raised in Minnesota, where he lived his entire life. He was educated at a public university there, which is where he eventually conducted his research....
by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2014 | Blog, Trade
President Obama talked and took questions about manufacturing at TechShop Pittsburgh Tuesday. He touted his efforts to boost manufacturing and even showed off his DODOcase on his iPad because the DODOcase prototype was developed at a TechShop. The president's talk was...
