by Terrance Heath | Mar 7, 2014 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Paul Ryan says that "the left" is offering Americans "a full stomach and an empty soul." The truth is that conservatives like Paul Ryan are offering Americans empty stomachs and empty rhetoric . The American people want more than that. Near the end of his Thursday...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 6, 2014 | Conservatism
In the introduction to “The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later,” House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan identifies the “breakdown of the family” as the key cause of poverty. It’s poverty that causes the “breakdown” of many families, not the other way around. Ryan...
by Joshua Holland | Mar 5, 2014 | Conservatism
Some date the advent of the tea party to 2007, when then-presidential candidate Ron Paul held a “tax day tea party” fundraiser to fill his campaign coffers. But the broader movement began five years ago last week — shortly after Barack Obama was sworn into office....
by Leo Gerard | Mar 4, 2014 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
All those rights Americans cherish, those fundamental human and political freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution, Republicans contend those aren’t really inalienable rights or anything solid or permanent like that. See, according to the GOP, some Americans are...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 4, 2014 | Conservatism
Rep. Paul Ryan begins his analysis of the federal government's antipoverty efforts by repeating President Lyndon Johnson's call for "total victory" in an "unconditional war on poverty" and suggests we "figure out why we have yet to achieve the 'total victory' Johnson...
by Joshua Holland | Mar 3, 2014 | Conservatism
Dog whistle politics have served Republicans well. But with shifting demographics, they may become an albatross around the party’s neck. No issue reflects that dynamic as clearly as immigration reform. Failure to address a broken system has alienated key...
