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...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 3, 2014 | Blog
The two cousins who run the private equity giant KKR, required disclosures revealed last week, together took home an astounding $327 million in 2013. Even more astounding: Analysts expect that the top execs at two of KKR’s biggest private equity rivals, Leon Black of...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 28, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
When the week began, Arizona governor Jan Brewer thought she had all the time in the world to decide whether to veto Arizona’s “Gay Jim Crow” bill. By the middle of the week, Brewer learned differently. Conservatives lost it. SB 1062, Arizona’s bill that would allow...
