by Burning Issues Video | Mar 21, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy, Election 2016
[fve]https://youtu.be/LkIOxvlRS5c[/fve] What should voters make of claims from Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers that our military is weak and underfunded? According to Miriam Pemberton, a research fellow and defense expert at the Institute for Policy...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 20, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade
For some time now most of the people in this country have been under economic pressure. Pay is not going up very much or at all, while living costs keep rising. One recent statistic stands out – 63 percent of Americans would have difficulty raising $500 to cover an...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Once again proving the bigger bully, Donald Trump may have caused the wingnut media site Breitbart News to self-destruct, after his campaign manager assaulted one of the site's reporters. It all started at a Trump press conference in Jupiter, Florida, when Breitbart...
by Bill Scher | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
The good people of Politico Magazine asked me to sketch out how Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton (and asked a conservative to show how Clinton could beat Trump.) I gave it my level best but the thought experiment shows the steep climb Trump faces. Here's the...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
With trade as a major issue in this election season (voters are against it), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is clearly in trouble. All but one (John Kasich) of the remaining presidential candidates oppose it, with both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders actively...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy, Election 2016
[fve]https://youtu.be/KRllAa55_OM[/fve] Melvin A. Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, discusses the lessons of the Libya crisis to be learned from Hillary Clinton's actions as secretary of state, and how Bernie Sanders has approached the...
