by Leo Gerard | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
The grandest and most majestic first act of 2016 by the Republican majority in Congress was to take a meat clever and sever 17 million Americans from their Affordable Care Act health insurance. No chemo for you, cancer patients, the GOP declared. No plaster or slings...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has provisions that allow corporations to sue governments for laws and regulations that limit profits. The cases bypass national court systems and are heard by "corporate courts" with the governments allowed no appeal. These...
by Liz Ryan Murray | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
In South Carolina on Saturday, the Republican candidates for president got together to discuss what they would do to address poverty in America. If you missed it, they promised that if elected they would do everything in their power to make things worse by cutting...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
When President Obama introduced his executive actions on gun control, he wept as he talked about Sandy Hook Elementary. Wingnuts couldn’t understand why he would still cry over 20 dead first graders. It took a long time. It took over 20 mass shootings since Barack...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Thursday's post, "Why You Should Pay Attention To The ‘Friedrichs’ Supreme Court Case," looked at the issues in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case: This time it is a case involving the rights of public-employee unions to charge employees a fee for...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 8, 2016 | Conservatism, Economy, Election 2016
Republican leaders, including six of the GOP presidential candidates, on Saturday will engage in one of their occasional displays of "compassionate conservatism," in which they seek to convince voters that they actually do care about people struggling to climb out of...
