by Terrance Heath | May 5, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
For a brief, shining moment, Carly Fiorina was all over the media after announcing her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. That’s probably because she made a point of turning her presidential bid into “this weird girl fight” with Clinton, as...
by Terrance Heath | May 5, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Two more candidates joined the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday. Of the two, retired brain surgeon Ben Carson is the one likely to have the most impact. That makes it frightening how much Carson just doesn’t get. Carson went back to his roots...
by Dave Johnson | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/sDls5C4a_kU[/fve] The trade promotion authority bill – fast track – is expected to come to the floor of the Senate soon for debate and then a vote, possibly even this week. It could also reach the House floor sometime this month. This is the big...
by Robert Borosage | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
“Patriotism," as Samuel Johnson warned, "is the last refuge for a scoundrel.” As the administration has ratcheted up the pressure to pass fast track authority that will grease the skids for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)accords, it increasingly invokes national...
by Terrance Heath | May 1, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, conservatives were confronted with two of their worst fears: gay people getting married and black people getting angry. Then, as if things weren't bad enough, the federal government began preparations to invade Texas. Baltimore Freddie Gray, 25, was walking...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The great Thomas "Mustache" Friedman is perhaps best known for encouraging the invasion of Iraq (and subsequent resistance insurgency, civil war, thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths, eventually leading to the formation of ISIS – plus the...