by Terrance Heath | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
From anti-choice bills in the House, to threats of lawsuits over Muslim “no go zones,” this week showed that the wingnut brain is biggest “no go zone” of them all. But first, let’s relive the “burn” heard around the world. When President Obama delivered the State of...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 21, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
President Obama’s State of the Union Address, complete with a “mic drop” moment," couldn’t have annoyed Republicans more if he’d entered to the theme from Rocky, and exited to “How Ya Like Me Now.” Obama’s “Mic Drop” Moment If Republicans in Congress expected to see...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 16, 2015 | Conservatism
From Benghazi and Beyoncé, to the terrorist attack in Paris, this week was a smorgasbord of wingnuttery. The world is still reeling from the terrorist attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which ten journalists and two police officers...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
It's tough to be disabled in America. It's tough anywhere, of course. But, as Rebecca Vallas notes: "According to the OECD, the U.S. disability benefit system is the most restrictive and least generous of all member countries, except for Korea." And nowhere else in...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) is the new chair of the House Budget Committee. Just who is Rep. Tom Price? What will his conservative economic ideology cost us? Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was arguably the most famous, and perhaps most-photographed, House Budget Committee chair...
by Dean Baker | Jan 14, 2015 | Conservatism, Economy
The U.S. House of Representatives recently adopted a new rule that requires lawmakers to take long-term macroeconomic effects into consideration when deciding how to vote on tax and spending bills. In theory, this could show that tax cuts, particularly for...
