by Terrance Heath | Mar 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week Rep. Paul Ryan took the cake. After debuting his embarrassing copy-and-paste job on the war on poverty last week, only to get his knuckles rapped by the very scholars whose work he cribbed, Ryan outdid himself with a clumsy bit of dog whistle politics...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 11, 2014 | Blog
Before I tell you what the subject is, just click this to listen to the first five minutes of Sunday night's Virtually Speaking: (Actually skip in about 1:35 and then listen to five minutes.) Listen To Politics Progressive Internet Radio Stations with Jay Ackroyd on...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, the world watched as Ukrainians threw out their Russian-puppet president, and Russian president Vladimir Putin prepared to invade. Conservatives, naturally, have decided that it’s all President Obama’s fault. Sen. Lindsay Graham (R, SC) summed it all up...
by Bill Scher | Mar 4, 2014 | Blog
Conservatives are crowing. Yes, Mitt Romney said Russia was our "number one geopolitical foe" in 2012, and was guffawed at from the left. Yes, Sarah Palin said in the 2008 campaign that Obama's "indecision and moral equivalence" in response to Russia's invasion of...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 4, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
There have been strikes today in 190 cities with fast-food and other low-wage workers demanding $15 an hour and the right to unionize. At the same time, low-wage federal contract workers are demanding presidential action to win $15 and a union. It's not just fast-food...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 4, 2014 | Blog
It's now been almost two days since the last Academy Award was handed out, which makes it an old story in today's hyper-accelerated news cycle. But here's a final observation - a question, really - before Sunday night's relatively unmemorable gala fades from memory...
