by Terrance Heath | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When Rand Paul announced his candidacy for president in 2016, he probably didn’t envision his campaign launch becoming one of the worst in recent memory. But that’s exactly what it was. What was supposed to be a great week for Sen....
by Bill Scher | Apr 9, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
Sen. Rand Paul wants to radically slash the size of our federal government and drastically limit its responsibilities. Oddly for a devout ideologue, he doesn't want to tell you that. When Paul was speaking to the country at large in his presidential campaign...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 8, 2015 | Conservatism
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul announced yesterday that he is running for president. Paul is the second major Republican candidate to enter the 2016 presidential race, but what he’s running from is at least as important as the office he’s running for. Coming on...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 7, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
After Indiana Republicans passed a license to discriminate law, a restaurant called Memories Pizza in the Hoosier town of Walkerton stepped up last week to make sure potential customers knew its religious rules: “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Certification of...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism
This week, wingnuts tried to frighten Americans into believing that gays were going to take away their religious freedom, and learned — in Indiana, Arkansas, and a few other states — that those old tricks don’t work anymore. Discrimination Doesn’t Pay Ever since the...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 3, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
The Indiana Toll Road begins at the Illinois border, just west of Hammond, and runs past a series of cities that have been hard-hit by the collapse of American manufacturing. They include Gary, where most of the factories have long since closed (its most famous export...
