by Terrance Heath | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
My phone started buzzing almost as soon as the lights went down. I was in Baltimore with my family to watch Cirque du Soleil’s “Toruk” when the alerts started coming in about another mass shooting, this time at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We’d just found our...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 10, 2016 | Conservatism, Economy
[fve]https://youtu.be/DO1FR4a0H-o[/fve] When House Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled his repackaged conservative ideas this week about reducing and refocusing government anti=poverty programs, there was one element missing: What about low-income people in Ryan's own...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Republicans now face an impossible task: denouncing racism while supporting a racist. They have no one but themselves to blame. On Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned Donald Trump’s remarks about a federal judge as “textbook” racism, just days after dismissing...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 10, 2016 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
Newt Gingrich – the leader of the 1994 “Gingrich Revolution” that gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years, Former Speaker of the House, occasional Republican presidential candidate, and, quite possibly, Donald Trump’s running...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 7, 2016 | Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
House Speaker Paul Ryan ended up overshadowing his own efforts Tuesday to highlight the Republican Party's proposals for overhauling aid programs for low-income people by telling reporters that he was still planning to endorse and vote for a presidential candidate...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Way back in January, Donald Trump got himself a ton of prime publicity on the backs of veterans. He organized a benefit that he said was for them. But really he did it because he didn’t feel like debating other GOP presidential candidates that night. At the event, he...
