If you want to understand the challenge Republicans face in their two goals for the next two years-to keep their control of Congress from turning into a disaster, and to win back the White House-all you have to do is look at the way they’ve handled the issue of immigration. They’ve spent the last few […]
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Pay Discrimination? Your Fault for Not Suing. (At CPAC, Carly Fiorina Explains How to Talk to Women)
Posted by guest blogger Kristen Doerer “If you read newspapers-and I hope you don’t clutter your mind with such nonsense” is how Chris Doss of the Leadership Institute opened a breakout session “Lies Told to You by Liberals.” Billed as an “activism boot camp,” the session took place on February 27, the second day of […]
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Photo of the Day, Live Long and Prosper Edition
View image | gettyimages.com Leonard Nimoy passed away today at the age of 83. It’s just impossible to overstate what a fantastic and enduring character he created in Mr. Spock. As Charlie Jane Anders writes today, before Spock, that kind of character-the emotionless alien-was a one-note character, but he managed to imbue him with a […]
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Republicans Trying to Fool Themselves into Thinking They Have a Solution to the Nightmare ‘King v. Burwell’ Will Unleash
For years now, Republicans have been saying they’re about to unveil their alternative to the Affordable Care Act, the “replace” in “repeal and replace.” And while every now and again one or a few of them comes out with a plan (of varying levels of seriousness), none of them get much support, and they quickly […]
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The Real Problem With What Scott Walker Said About ISIS
View image | gettyimages.com Scott Walker is learning that when you want to play in the big leagues, things move pretty fast. And when you’re a governor without foreign policy experience, sometimes you can get a little tripped up trying to show how what you’ve done in your state prepares you for dealing with international […]
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CPAC 2015: Right-Wing American Dream Kind of Crappy
Posted by guest blogger Nathalie Baptiste. What is the American dream? Is it owning a house and having a job you love? Perhaps you want to be able to have children and send them off to school? Well, this year at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, members of the Republican Party are promising to […]
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Christie Blusters His Way Through CPAC Appearance
Posted by guest-blogger Rachel M. Cohen. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wasn’t going to let something like record-low approval ratings get him down as he took the stage Thursday afternoon at CPAC’s annual gathering in National Harbor, Maryland. Exuding that Sopranos-style confidence that’s earned him notoriety, Christie, sitting on the CPAC stage for an interview […]
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Photo of the Day, CPAC Edition
View image | gettyimages.com What’s that you say? There’s a biology teacher at your local high school trying to indoctrinate students into believing that the earth is 4.5 billion years old? Not to worry-AmericaMan is on his way! Good thing I wore the Sweatband of Liberty today!
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John Boehner Can’t Bring Himself to Rip Off the Band-Aid
View image | gettyimages.com Mitch McConnell knows what John Boehner doesn’t, namely that when you have to do something painful, it’s best to get it over with quickly. Rip off the Band-aid, chop the zombie-bite-infected leg off with one blow, just do it and move on. But we’re a day away from a shutdown of […]
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At Colleges Across the Country, PhDs Join the Ranks of Low-Wage Workers
Posted by guest blogger Justin Miller In college towns across America, adjunct faculty are quickly becoming the new, Ph.D.-educated working poor. If nobody noticed that adjuncts now comprise the majority of faculty in higher education, that surely changed yesterday, on what organizers deemed National Adjunct Walkout Day. The idea was to shine light on the […]
