by Burning Issues Video | May 9, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/BSDU8Fy-5nE[/fve] The F-35 fighter place is a textbook example of how tax dollars are wasted on Pentagon weaponry, Mandy Smithberger, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on Government Oversight, explains in this Burning...
by Terrance Heath | May 6, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week saw the end of both Ted Cruz’s and John Kasich’s presidential campaigns, as well as the death of modern conservatism — killed off by a guy who bears more than a passing resemblance to an Oompa Loompa. Well, he did it. Whatever else can be said about Donald...
by Dave Johnson | May 5, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In 2011 the Obama administration sold the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) by promising "more exports, more jobs". The U.S. Trade Representative's website on KORUS still offers those promises. It still says right there the agreement "means countless new...
by Burning Issues Video | May 5, 2016 | Burning Issues
[fve]https://youtu.be/-3X1Mj7Vqlw[/fve] Presidential candidates who emphasize closing the federal spending deficit are ignoring a more important investment deficit in our infrastructure, our schools and in other fundamentals of future growth and shared prosperity,...
by Terrance Heath | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
Today, President Obama is visiting Flint, Michigan for the first time since state officials revealed that the city’s water was contained with lead. The president was invited to Flint not by Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, but by eight-year-old Mari...
by Robert Borosage | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist insurgent, won Indiana convincingly Tuesday night – 52.5 percent to 47.5 percent – over Hillary Clinton, the establishment moderate. This is a remarkable victory, a statement of the extent and scope of the Sanders surge....
