by Dave Johnson | Jun 9, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Health
The city of Texarkana sits on the border of Texas and Arkansas. Arkansas expanded Medicaid under Obamacare but in Texas Republicans blocked it. Meanwhile in Virginia, Republicans bribed a Democratic senator to resign, enabling Republicans to block people from getting...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 9, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
If you ever doubt the powers of the past, just consider how much the Right fears them. It is a fear that drives them to continuously try to control the past and our memory of it: They try to deny history. They try to manipulate it. They try to suppress it. Indeed,...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 9, 2014 | Conservatism
Republicans can’t pass immigration reform, but they can take time out from obstructing anything that might remotely do the economy some good, to confer citizenship on a genocidal colonialist who’s been dead for over two hundred years. "Bernardo de Galvez". Licensed...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
The safe release of an American POW is usually a cause for celebration. But there will be no yellow ribbons on the right for Army Sgt. Bowe Berghdal, who was released after being held by the Taliban for five years. Sgt. Bergdahl was the last American held by the...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
On June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan went to Normandy, France, to speak at events commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day. Addressing statesmen, dignitaries, and veterans of those landings and their families, he spoke eloquently and movingly, especially at...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 5, 2014 | Conservatism
Guns — their presence, and all it portends — are increasingly invading every corner of our everyday lives. They have morphed into a form of symbolic speech that threatens to shoot down our political discourse. It seemed almost too good to be true, when the National...
