by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 13, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Let's hope that a story published by Politico on Monday about the kind of campaigns Democrats plan to run to retake the Senate proves inaccurate. "Democrats' surprising strategy to win the Senate: Be boring," is the headline for the story, which describes the overall...
by Bernie Horn | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The murderer in Orlando on Sunday used a Sig Sauer version of the AR-15 assault weapon. The story is so awfully familiar. The mass murderers in San Bernardino who killed 14 and wounded 21 used AR-15 assault rifles. In Aurora, Colorado, a man with an AR-15 killed 12...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision, This Is The GOP
My phone started buzzing almost as soon as the lights went down. I was in Baltimore with my family to watch Cirque du Soleil’s “Toruk” when the alerts started coming in about another mass shooting, this time at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We’d just found our...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jun 10, 2016 | Conservatism, Progressive Vision
Newt Gingrich – the leader of the 1994 “Gingrich Revolution” that gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years, Former Speaker of the House, occasional Republican presidential candidate, and, quite possibly, Donald Trump’s running...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
Are you tired of all the nasty, hit-piece, smear ads and mailings against candidates for pubic office that we have to put up with? The way things are set up, we don't even get to know who paid for them. In January President Obama said in the State of the Union...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Hillary Clinton became the “presumptive nominee” of the Democratic Party Tuesday night, and will be the first woman ever to win the presidential nomination of a major party. Clinton won primaries in New Jersey, New Mexico and California, the large states at issue. She...
