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Fair-Weather Capitalists: Conservative Politics Gone Wild
Jeff Schweitzer Jeff Schweitzer – Scientist; Fmr. White House Senior Policy Analyst – Posted: 02/28/2012 5:37 pm As recently as a few...
Jay Murdock
Feb 28, 20127 min read


Evangelicals May Not Be the GOP’s Trump Card
Some take the surge by GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum as a convincing sign that the evangelicals are back. They tipped the...
Jay Murdock
Feb 24, 20124 min read


Santorum’s Wrong: There Is Such a Thing as a ‘Liberal’ Christian. His Name Was Jes
Brian Normoyle – Actor, Producer, Commentator Posted: 02/23/2012 2:02 pm Buzzfeed reported Tuesday that Republican presidential candidate...
Jay Murdock
Feb 24, 20123 min read


Media Quotes: The Worst Things Said On Fox News
David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt – Media Matters Posted: 02/23/2012 8:25 am Roger Ailes, granted unprecedented freedom by Rupert Murdoch...
Jay Murdock
Feb 23, 20122 min read


Oil Slicks: Who Benefits From Gambling on Gas Prices?
Richard (RJ) Eskow – Consultant, Writer and Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future Posted: 02/22/2012 5:29 pm Anybody who doesn’t...
Jay Murdock
Feb 23, 20126 min read


The GOP’s Big Investors
Robert Reich – Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, ‘Aftershock’ : Posted: 02/22/2012...
Jay Murdock
Feb 22, 20123 min read


NRA Get Out the Vote Campaign Features Proponents of Political Violence
“Anyone who has thought about it realizes that liberty and equality are antithetical concepts … Equality is biologically impossible, and...
Jay Murdock
Feb 22, 20126 min read


Rick Santorum, Have You No Shame?
Clarence B. Jones – Scholar in Residence, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University Posted:...
Jay Murdock
Feb 22, 20123 min read


EPI President Lawrence Mishel debunks conservative economic myths
Economic Policy Institute (EPI) – Posted Feb 17, 2012 This week and last week, EPI President Lawrence Mishel was razor sharp, poking...
Jay Murdock
Feb 20, 20123 min read


Manufacturing Illusions
Robert Reich – Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, ‘Aftershock’ – Posted: 02/17/2012...
Jay Murdock
Feb 20, 20124 min read


Freedom of and From Religion
Bill Moyers – Managing Editor, Moyers & Company Posted: 02/16/2012 11:22 am The president did something agile and wise the other day. And...
Jay Murdock
Feb 17, 20124 min read


Did the Stimulus Work?
Michael Linden – Director for Tax and Budget Policy, American Progress Posted: 02/17/2012 8:40 am Three years ago today, President Obama...
Jay Murdock
Feb 17, 20122 min read


Demonizing Obama and the Politics of “Morality”
Clarence B. Jones – Scholar in Residence, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University Posted:...
Jay Murdock
Feb 16, 20126 min read


Obama’s Birth Control Policy Has Support From Catholic Hospitals, Colleges, And Charities, But
Following the announcement by President Obama that his administration will ensure that women have access to insurance coverage for birth...
Jay Murdock
Feb 15, 201211 min read


Who is Sheldon Adelson and What Has Newt Promised Him?
Robert Reich – Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Sheldon Adelson,...
Jay Murdock
Feb 15, 20122 min read


Jesus Concerned About the Poor? You Must Be Joking, Says the Christian Right
Clay Farris Naff – Science writer, journalist, author Posted: 02/ 8/2012 6:44 pm When President Obama used the occasion of the National...
Jay Murdock
Feb 9, 20124 min read


What’s Their Counterfactual?
Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Posted 2/8/2012 As others have noted, conservatives who’d like...
Jay Murdock
Feb 8, 20122 min read


Conservatives vs. Liberals: More Than Politics
Thomas B Edsall Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor, Columbia School of Journalism 02/08/2012 The following is an...
Jay Murdock
Feb 8, 20126 min read


7 Lessons From Komen-Gate: What the Komen Controversy Taught Us About Race, Class and Cancer
Keli Goff Author, Commentator and Contributing Editor, TheLoop21.com Posted: 02/ 6/2012 7:57 pm All of us have survived the awkwardness...
Jay Murdock
Feb 7, 20125 min read


Congratulations, President Obama, for Safeguarding Religious Freedom!
Angela Bonavoglia – Journalist and author Posted: 02/ 6/2012 6:25 pm The Sunday morning talk shows were a cacophony of apoplectic right...
Jay Murdock
Feb 7, 20122 min read
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