by Terrance Heath | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich says he wouldn’t have signed North Carolina’s new anti-LGBT law. That still doesn’t make him the moderate he wants people to think he is. Kasich said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he...
by Bill Moyers | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
April 8, 2016 This post first appeared on BillMoyers.com. Bruce Springsteen announced earlier today via Twitter that he is canceling his performance in North Carolina this weekend because of the organized assault by the state legislature against human rights. Bruce...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 8, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week the South rose again and tried to go back in time about 50 year, as several former confederate states tried to legislate a queer new twist on Jim Crow; so much for southern hospitality. Once again, a toxic blend of religion and bigotry takes hold below the...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016, This Is The GOP
It sounds like a match between a second-rate comic book hero-and-villain pair: the Golden Boy vs. the Orange Man. Thus it’s fitting in more ways than one that former House Speaker (and first “orange” speaker) John Boehner perhaps started the ball rolling. At a Futures...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 5, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
For years, Republicans have kept a gambit going where they gin up hate for political gain. They condemn marriage equality. They throw a hissy fit about what bathroom transgender people use. They try every dirty trick in the book to prevent black people from voting....
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
This post was originally published on the blog of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. From the lips of Paul Ryan, Chief Spokesman of Blame-the-Poor politics, came a curious mea culpa just last week: He should not have referred to hard-working Americans trying to...
