by Dave Johnson | Feb 21, 2014 | Conservatism, Democracy
Here is how it works these days: You start hearing about a big, national problem and then it becomes a drumbeat. First there are a few articles and columns mentioning that such-and-such is a problem. Then a number of articles appear, then a “study” from a “think tank”...
by Bill Scher | Feb 11, 2014 | Democracy
Throughout the immigration debate, Republicans have run phony excuses for delay, Democrats keep stripping them away, and the process keeps moving forward. Last June when the Senate was deliberating immigration reform, and Republicans were complaining that it didn't do...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 10, 2014 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/entactmHPEY[/fve] The scene was Raleigh, N.C., but for many of the people who were there the message and its impact was intended to be national: There is a growing populist resistance to the conservative extremist agenda, and the tens of thousands...
by Roger Hickey | Feb 10, 2014 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
I was honored to be part of a historic and joyful event on Saturday, February 8, as an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 North Carolinians streamed into their capital city to from all over their state to participate in a historic Moral March on Raleigh. As they were filling...
by Richard Long | Feb 5, 2014 | Democracy
If you follow politics, you know the names Koch, Adelson, American Crossroads and Priorities USA Action. If you don’t know the names, you know their tools, the fearmongering ads that purport that voting for this candidate or another will cause the downfall of the...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 28, 2014 | Democracy, Economy
Just about everything Americans need to know about the surge of income inequality is contained in the 43-page indictment last week of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. The Republican governor and his wife are accused of a sleazy exchange — taking pricey gifts like a...
