No, it wasn't "pragmatic" Hillary politics that got us the ACA. It was "dream...
If you ever check out the copy-paste-embed-tweets “explanatory” journalism of Voxdotcom, you’ll note Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias love to boost Hillary by arguing that she is just so damn realistic...
View ArticleHillary Clinton is John McCain on foreign policy. This should horrify...
The usual suspects are attacking Bernie Sanders as a lightweight on foreign policy, but let’s hit the pause button and consider the words of a scholar rather than hot-take-journalist hacks. From Dr....
View ArticleNo, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton is certainly not a #RebelGirl.
John Podesta, Hillary’s Campaign Chair and the leader of a Democratic think tank that doesn’t even have a plan for true universal health care, seems to think his candidate is an awesome “rebel...
View ArticleClinton campaign uses classic Dubya attack line to hit Bernie
Remember when George W. Bush accused Al Gore of “fuzzy math” in the 2000 debates? xYouTube VideoWell, it looks like Team Hillary (and Paul Krugman!) is borrowing Dubya’s rhetoric to attack Bernie. From...
View ArticleThe 23 cities with the best quality of life in the world -- and not a single...
If you want to live in a healthy, prosperous and safe city, you should probably look outside the United States, according to the Mercer 2016 Quality of Living City Rankings. Mercer, one of the world’s...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter activists booted from Hillary dinner after calling for...
In 1996, Hillary Clinton labeled some urban youth as “super predators” with “no conscience, no empathy,” adding that before we could try to understand their choices, the children must brought “to...
View ArticleHillary: "My political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was...
Audio from a Weekend Edition NPR interview with Hillary Clinton in 1996 has been discovered. Among the highlights:“My political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.”And:“I’m...
View ArticleYou'll want to share this powerful video of Killer Mike celebrating Bernie's...
Killer Mike’s words will go straight to your heart.Watch and listen — like Bernie Sanders would do.xYouTube VideoSo, so true. Bernie shook the protesters’ hands and gave them the stage to speak — in...
View ArticleThe corruption and cronyism of Team Hillary in seven awkward seconds of John...
Defending hypocrisy is really hard, it seems. Especially when it means defending a former highly-paid NRA lobbyist co-hosting a fundraiser for Hillary. (The other co-host has lobbied for Goldman...
View ArticleWhy Bernie beats Trump -- and Hillary doesn't -- in one New York Times...
If Democrats want to protect America from the obscenity that is Donald Trump, they had better choose Bernie Sanders as their nominee. This paragraph from a New York Times article discussing Hillary’s...
View ArticleDeRay Mckesson: "It is important that Bernie remains in the race...Let's see...
DeRay Mckesson, a candidate for Mayor of Baltimore and prominent activist who has yet to endorse a presidential nominee, is calling for Bernie Sanders to remain in the Democratic race until the end:xIt...
View ArticleVoxdotcom: Spendthrift Poor and Middle-Class Americans Should Abandon DC and...
Voxdotcom publishes a lot of stupid shit, but this recent piece is downright enraging. In short, it suggests that middle-class and low-income folks struggling to pay the rent in expensive cities like...
View ArticleItalian Supreme Court: Stealing food, if poor and hungry, is not a crime
As a New Orleans man faces life in prison for stealing a few candy bars from a dollar store, we are shown, once again, that Europe may offer a more humane vision for executing Western civilization.Yes,...
View ArticleHere's why progressives shouldn't be excited about a "Medicare buy-in"...
Lots of folks were pretty excited yesterday by the news that presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton dropped the words “public option” and “Medicare buy-in” at a campaign stop in Northern...
View ArticleSorry, but I'm a Bernie Sanders voter (or supporter), not a "fan."
I’ve noticed that some journalists have taken to referring to Bernie Sanders supporters as “fans”— evoking an unserious comedian or singer rather than a candidate for the presidency — and not,...
View ArticleNo, Donald Trump is not Berlusconi. He's worse than that. There's no EU to...
A lot of Very Serious DC pundits seem to think Trump might just be a Berlusconi — a silly curiosity, but not an existential threat to the nation.xWill Trump be an American Putin or an American...
View ArticleHealth insurers shouldn't be suing taxpayers, but our "universal" health care...
Private health insurance companies are not really in the “health care” business — they actually operate more like investment banks, who profit from investing your premiums all while trying to pay as...
View ArticleItaly's "Bernie Sanders" just passed. And his career shows why the Democrats...
Italy and the United States have a lot in common — both young countries (although Italy is almost 100 years younger), regions with strong local identities united by antipathy towards the national...
View ArticleAt this very moment, Austria is showing us how we beat a hateful, xenophobic...
Take a look at this: xThe independent green might just beat the far right in Austria!pic.twitter.com/4t0XNQZkHI— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) May 22, 2016Who, you might ask, is Hofer?He’s a...
View ArticleA single tunnel through the Alps now has more high-speed rail track than the...
Right now, in the Greatest Country on Earth, the so-called “high-speed” Acela service reaches its maximum operating speed of 150 mph for just 18 miles of its 452-mile journey from Boston to Washington,...
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