Category: national

Planned Parenthood Video Makers Indicted; Supreme Court Kills Two Abortion Bans

Published 2016-01-25 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

Hey, Attorney General Jackley! Looking forward to bringing your bill on fetal tissue sales to Senate Judiciary so your friends at the Family Heritage Alliance…

Affordable Care Act Driving Hiring in Health Care

Published 2016-01-19 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

Capping seven years of Obamanomics, the United States added 292,000 jobs in December. Among growing industries is health care: In December, health care employment rose by…

Trump to Cruz: New York Is America, Too

Published 2016-01-15 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

Something must have frozen over this morning—I wake up, read the papers, and have to admit that Donald Trump is proposing a healthy and inclusive vision…

Jobs, Deficit, Energy Conservation, Equality, Consumer Protection—Obama Earns His Swagger

Published 2016-01-14 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

Last fall, South Dakota Democratic Party vice-chair Joe Lowe said Democrats need to fight Republican gloom-and-doom mythmaking with facts about President Barack Obama’s successes. The President…

Trump Lacking Organization in Iowa

Published 2016-01-14 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

Remarkably, Donald Trump, the über-capitalist who knows how to run a business, doesn’t know how to organize an effective Iowa caucus campaign: Mr. Trump, who Iowa polls show is…

Quick Release of U.S. Sailors Proves Value of Obama’s Diplomacy over GOP’s Bluster

Published 2016-01-13 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

One of my Twitter friends was grousing about the President’s decision not to mention in his State of the Union address the “crisis” of Iran’s detention of…

Corporate Income Tax Share of States Revenues Declines; Individual Share Nearly Triples

Published 2016-01-06 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

Mike Maciag of Governing posts this really instructive chart on the share of state revenues borne by individuals and corporations paying state income taxes: Back in 1950,…

“Fairness”? Ha! HR 1927 Kills Class Action Lawsuits, Protects Volkswagen and Other Corporate Liars

Published 2016-01-05 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

Here’s the first bill of 2016 for Rep. Kristi Noem, Senator John Thune, and Senator Mike Rounds to oppose: H.R. 1927, the Fairness in Class…

Ben Carson Is Annette Bosworth

Published 2016-01-02 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

What is it about doctors turning out to be sham candidates? Just like Dr. Annette Bosworth when she ran for Senate in South Dakota in…

President Obama to Candidates: Boost Community, Hope, Optimism, Dynamism and Change

Published 2015-12-31 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

NPR’s Steve Inskeep wrapped up his year-end interview with President Barack Obama with a question about what the leader of the free world would ask the current…