by Terrance Heath | Aug 28, 2015 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Wingnut reactions to the on-air shooting of two Roanoke, Virginia journalists brings to mind the famous question Joseph N. Welch asked Sen. Joseph McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” [fve]https://youtu.be/fqQD4dzVkwk[/fve] No, they don’t. It didn’t take...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 27, 2015 | Conservatism
In the dog days of August, the news channels have turned themselves into the Trump show. Bernie Sanders rouses the biggest crowds in obscurity while Trump floods the air waves. Commentators still dismiss Trump as a summertime fling, a bad boy escape before voters...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 21, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, Donald Trump gave the 2016 presidential election its best unofficial campaign slogan yet. Meanwhile, the Duggar family is proving harder to get rid of than a coldsore. BatTrump Donald Trump, the only billionaire candidate in the 2016 presidential race,...
by Jim Hightower | Aug 19, 2015 | Conservatism, Financial Reform, This Is The GOP
Phil Gramm, the former right-wing senator from Texas, has surprised me. I assumed he had zero charitable instincts. In office, he kept trying to kill safety net programs, such as food assistance: “We’re the only nation in the world where all our poor people are fat,”...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 19, 2015 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Ten years later, the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina is a heartrending example of the consequences and human cost of conservative failure. Ten years after the poorest and most vulnerable in the areas hit by Hurricane Katrina were left to fend for...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 18, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy
In his extended "Meet the Press" interview, with Chuck Todd interrupting constantly, Republican front-runner Donald Trump advocated for a huge, huge giveaway of tax money to giant, multinational corporations, for a lower corporate tax rate and for a low minimum wage....
