by Robert Borosage | Mar 19, 2014 | Conservatism
“The rich strike back” reads the headline in Politico, reporting that “the denizens of Wall Street and wealthy precincts around the nation” aren’t going to put up with populist politicians making “class-based appeals.” And that politicians in both parties are...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 18, 2014 | Conservatism
In Charlie Daniel's 1979 hit, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" looking for a soul to steal. Today the Moral Mondays movement brings its brand of righteous progressivism to the Georgia state capitol, to demand accountability from Georgia lawmakers and better lives for...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 18, 2014 | Conservatism
One way the corporate/plutocrat/conservative agenda gets foisted on us is through what I call "sneak laws." These are laws that sneak through state legislatures and the Congress before We the People get a chance to learn about them and organize opposition. (Read to...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 14, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week Rep. Paul Ryan took the cake. After debuting his embarrassing copy-and-paste job on the war on poverty last week, only to get his knuckles rapped by the very scholars whose work he cribbed, Ryan outdid himself with a clumsy bit of dog whistle politics...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 14, 2014 | Conservatism
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has become the latest right-winger to blame black poverty on “culture” and character. Just as he got it backwards on families and poverty, Paul Ryan gets it twisted on poverty and black men. Ryan went on William Bennett’s “Morning in America”...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 13, 2014 | Conservatism
For two hours last Wednesday, New Jersey governor Chris Christie took reporters’ questions about “Bridgegate" — in which Christie's senior aides closed the George Washington Bridge to punish the mayor of Fort Lee, for not endorsing Christie’s re-election bid...
