by Bill Scher | Sep 20, 2011 | Blog
Newt Gingrich is supposed to be the intellectual leader of the conservative movement. Yet his fellow conservatives were completely uninterested in following his lead away from denying climate science and towards climate solutions. In fact, today's conservatives are...
by Alan Jenkins | Sep 20, 2011 | Blog
On Sunday, the sit-com Modern Family won a well-deserved five Emmy awards, including one for best comedy series. I’m a fan of the show, but can’t help thinking that it is a double-edged sword. The show depicts three inter-connected families who reflect a rich, 21st...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog
President Obama's address today on taxes and deficit reduction draws the broad contours of the economic reform argument exactly as they should be drawn, between a plan that calls for "shared sacrifice" to be actually shared by all rather than imposed on the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog
I watched President Obama's "deficit speech" this morning. My wife was listening from another room. She does not follow politics as closely as you and I do. The only thing she heard was "Medicare cuts." Why was Medicare in a speech about raising taxes on the rich?...