by Fred Redmond | Jan 19, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
The GOP debate last week featured more immigrant bashing with the party’s front-runner, Donald Trump, reasserting his plan to construct a wall – this one a religious barrier preventing Muslims from getting into the country. Trump has mocked a disabled journalist and...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley easily gave the most successful GOP State of the Union response in years. So, why do so many in her own party seem to hate her for it? There’s no denying it. The GOP responses to the State of the Union address during Barack Obama’s...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 15, 2016 | Conservatism, Election 2016
If you thought Thursday night's Fox Business Republican presidential debate left a lot of questions unanswered, and even more unasked, that are central to the national debate about jobs, the economy and the challenges working people face, you would be right. We...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Seven contenders lined up in the main Republican debate Thursday night in Charleston, South Carolina. Donald Trump, still leading in national polls, may not have won the night, but he has surely dictated its terms. The candidates were trumped-up, the vitriol hot, the...
by Michael Winship | Jan 14, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
On May 21, 1946, less than a year after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, physicist Louis Slotin performed a dangerous experiment his colleagues at Los Alamos called “tickling the dragon’s tail.” He took two half-spheres of beryllium, each...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Crybabies. That’s the perfect word to describe conservatives' reaction to President Obama’s final State of the Union address — as well as the official GOP response by South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. It started even before the president even delivered his address....
