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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Christie Blusters His Way Through CPAC Appearance
Christie’s bluster has some appeal, but there’s only so long that he can use it to avoid owning up to some of his massive leadership failures.
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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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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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The Libertarian Delusion
The free-market fantasy stands discredited by events. The challenge now: redeeming effective and democratic government
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Anti-Choice Activists Dishonor Black History, Co-Opting Language of #BlackLivesMatter
But do they join the protests around the country calling for an end to police brutality? Not so much.
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If Only Republicans Could Get Bored With Health Care Again
By now, Republicans are surely tired of talking about health care. After all, as policy areas go, it really isn’t their thing. Ask them about tax reform and they’re happy to talk for hours about all their ideas to free job creators from the unfair burden of taxation, but health care? Dullsville, as far as […]
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News From Elsewhere
In today’s Plum Line post, I took a look at an actual health care plan that congressional Republicans unveiled and came to the conclusion that they’ve basically ceded the argument on government’s role in health care: Again and again in the Republican plan, what they do is take a provision or principle in the Affordable […]
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Photo of the Day, Vaccination Edition
View image | gettyimages.com Sixth-grader Paul Witzen gets a smallpox vaccination in 1963. Fortunately, smallpox is something people no longer die from. Because of vaccines.
