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How the Texas Governor Created His State’s Budget Crisis

by WS Editors | Sep 1, 2011 | Economy, Politics

The $27 billion equaled 15 percent of the $182 billion biennial budget the Legislature had passed two years earlier. If not Armageddon, an apocalyptic loss of revenue in a low-tax state that provides bare-bones public services. Perry’s statement was even more remarkable because most of the budget shortfall was a consequence of a business-tax bill […]

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Rewriting the Rules for Political Campaigns

by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2011 | Politics

The landscape that Basic Rights Oregon has set out to change was redefined in 2004, when Republicans and evangelical Christians forced initiatives prohibiting same-sex marriage onto ballots in 11 states. Ohio’s ballot initiative got most of the media coverage, because it was a state that George W. Bush had to win in order to be […]

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Reed, Redemption, and Revival

by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2011 | Politics

Rodent Republicans Were someone to discover “a rat head in the bottom of the bottle,” Norquist said, “Coke’s brand would be ruined for everyone.

“Republican elected officials who vote to increase taxes are rat heads in a Coke bottle.”

—Grover Norquist, June 2011

Three days before Ralph Reed brought 800 Evangelicals to Washington, the New York Times ran an article anticipating the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference Reed had organized. Faith & Freedom is Reed’s new startup, an advocacy group intended to get Christians engaged in the 2012 elections. There was a small conference last year; this was to be a more ambitious event. But the Times story was a profile of Reed, not his organization. And despite the space it dedicated to him, it only briefly addressed his past transgressions…

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Who’s Afraid of Elizabeth Warren? | Innocence Abroad: NYU in the U.A.E.

by Alison Fairbrother | Jun 1, 2011 | Economy, Politics

A Bonus for Consumers “Wall Street bonuses in 2010 alone totaled $20.8 billion — more than 51 times the size of the C.F.P.B.’s budget cap.” —Elizabeth Warren in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee   THREE BILLS WORKING THEIR WAY THROUGH the House Financial Services Committee are precisely what most Republicans on the committee […]

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How to Pass Bills and Influence Legislators

by WS Editors | May 15, 2011 | Legal Affairs, Politics

Marching Orders Introduce a resolution supporting repeal of ObamaCare to send the repeal message to members of your state’s congressional delegation. Decline to enforce ObamaCare’s “consumer protections.” —from ALEC’s Repealing ObamaCare Adopt legislation prohibiting EPA by any means necessary from regulating Green House Gasses. States should pursue all available legal means for opposing EPA regulation… —from […]

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Bad Faith Documentary

Bad Faith

“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns

Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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