by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 25, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy
There is at least one fatal flaw in Rep. Paul Ryan's kinder, gentler version of how conservatives would change federal antipoverty programs: The proposal at the center of his vision, as are the conservatives in whose hands Ryan would entrust it, would be neither kind...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 22, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, Minimum Wage
Sen. Rand Paul mocked President and Mrs. Obama for wanting their daughters to experience working for minimum wage. My own experience taught me “the value of work,” and to value the workers for whom earning a paycheck isn’t always fun, stimulating, or fair. In a...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Thank heaven for American wingnuts’ short attention span. The apparent shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over the Ukraine gave us a respite from the usual sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic rantings. A brief one, but a respite nonetheless. Fox News...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Remember Elian Gonzales? He was the little Cuban boy found clinging to an inner tube of the coast of Florida, on Thanksgiving Day in 1999. He’d been rescued by fishermen after his mother and 11 others drowned in an attempt to reach the U.S. from Cuba. His fate sparked...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Jul 10, 2014 | Conservatism
By Emily Schwartz Greco and William A. Collins A wide majority of U.S. voters say black Americans who can’t get ahead should blame themselves for their troubles instead of racial discrimination. That’s one of the more startling findings from a recent Pew Research...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 10, 2014 | Conservatism
What’s the matter with Kansas? That was the question posed by Thomas Frank’s 2005 book and the eponymous documentary, which examined how the 19th century hotbed of left-wing populism became an outpost of the most extreme right-wing conservatism. Nine years later, not...
