by Leo Gerard | Sep 22, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
Last week, Scott Walker one-upped the gang of GOP presidential candidates all jostling for the coveted Republican title of Best Billionaire Bootlicker. He accomplished that by announcing with pomp and fanfare that, unlike those other Republican pansies, a President...
by Robert Reich | Sep 21, 2015 | Conservatism, Gender Justice
The Republican assault on Planned Parenthood is filled with lies and distortions, and may even lead to a government shutdown.The only thing we can say for sure about it is it’s already harming women’s health.For distortions, start with presidential candidate Carly...
by Bill Scher | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
"We don't know what he's going to say until he says it," a White House aide says of Pope Francis. Pope Francis arrives in America on Tuesday, meets with President Obama on Wednesday, addresses Congress on Thursday and then the United Nations on Friday. But no one...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 18, 2015 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
A 14-year-old high school freshman and budding scientist build his own clock, and brought it to school to show his teacher. Instead, he got arrested, and wingnuts lost their minds. Because he was Muslim, of course. When 14-year-old freshman Ahmed Mohamed arrived at...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Before turning on the Republican debate on Wednesday night, I had begun writing an article on Hillary Clinton’s alarmingly bellicose foreign policy ideas. But Hillary’s hawkish stance is a portrait of restraint in contrast to the adolescent muscle flexing and locker...
by Donald Kaul | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
To hear Republican presidential candidates tell it, you’d think the most important issue facing the nation is Hillary Clinton’s old emails. Not climate change, not the growing gap between the filthy rich and the deserving poor, and not our crumbling roads, declining...
