by Terrance Heath | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
Today, President Obama is visiting Flint, Michigan for the first time since state officials revealed that the city’s water was contained with lead. The president was invited to Flint not by Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, but by eight-year-old Mari...
by Bill Scher | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism
Modern American Conservatism died last night at 7 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. It was 35 years old. Born with the 1980 presidential election of Ronald Reagan, conservatism had an impressive childhood. After cutting taxes for the wealthy, deregulating the economy,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 2, 2016 | Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
Once again, that conservative maxim about the government that's closest to the people serves the people best was thrown out the window by conservatives when it comes to protecting the interests of workers against the abuses of businesses. The latest example is Kansas,...
by Martha Burk | Apr 27, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
We heard a lot about the “war on women” during the 2012 election cycle — mostly over Republican attacks on abortion rights and birth control. While the phrase has faded in this election year go-round, the war on women has not. The only change is that now we’re...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 27, 2016 | Conservatism
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday received an incredibly light sentence for actions related to the sexual abuse of boys he supervised when he was a high school athletics coach. U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin used the phrase "serial child molester" in...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Tax Reform
Overcrowded classrooms. Crumbling bridges. Shuttered libraries. These have become our everyday realities after over a generation of tax-cutting political bravado. A shrinking middle class. Rising dead-end poverty. The splurges of a new super rich. These have also...
