by Bill Scher | May 13, 2014 | Blog, Climate
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJORBRpOPM[/fve] Four years ago, West Virginia's Joe Manchin got elected to the U.S. Senate after pinning to a tree the House "cap-and-trade" bill, and shooting it. Now, Manchin is acknowledging that climate is a problem. Politico...
by Leo Gerard | May 13, 2014 | Blog
The GOP wants America to divorce Obamacare so badly that Republicans are willing to stoop to the tactics of prototypical evil mothers-in-law – nitpicking, backbiting, and straight up lying. Just last week, Republicans got caught in a lie about Obamacare very publicly...
by Jeff Bryant | May 13, 2014 | Blog, Education
So this one's personal for me. The day they bused the poor kids to my school was the first time I'd ever come face to face with children my age who were so poor they weren't properly clothed. It was the first time – in a society where I saw separate water fountains...
by Dave Johnson | May 13, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, The New Populism
There is a new populist movement that is driving minimum wage and other reforms across the country. The public wants the minimum wage increased, and cities and states are acting on their own to bypass D.C. and get this moving. Does It Matter What The Public Wants?...
by Dave Johnson | May 12, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Winning Issues for 2014
The country needs jobs. The country needs to start fixing up its crumbling infrastructure. The country doesn't need more corporate tax breaks. Guess which of these three is in legislation the House is passing – unfortunately with help from many Democrats. If this...
by Terrance Heath | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Hillary Clinton's all-but-inevitable presidential candidacy in 2016 and Monica Lewinsky's return to the spotlight have led to recurrence of the right's derangement disorder of the '90s. Monica Lewinsky, whose name became a verb in the late 1990s, broke her silence on...
