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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) recently announced her plan to run for president, joining what is expected to be a very crowded field of Democratic candidates. Unfortunately for the Iraq war veteran and the first Hindu member of Congress, her campaign is already off to a very poor start. As revelations about Gabbard’s past record and […]
“You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center. I plead guilty.” –Hillary Clinton Wait … “moderate and center” on what spectrum? This is what Clintonites and “Third Way” Democrats are often called, both in self-definition and as a pejorative — “Centrists,” as in not the hardline right or the radical left, […]
“We made an indifferent and unconcerned nation rise from lethargy and subpoenaed its conscience to appear before the judgment seat of morality on the whole question of civil rights.” (Dr. Martin Luther King, 1967) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister, a brilliant orator, and a prolific civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968 […]
Bad news: Broadly, a shut down government is about the same as a functioning one at this point. Earlier, 14 days into a shut down over his proposed border wall, President Trump surmised that the situation could continue for “months or even years,” adding, with his typical lack of understanding of the ‘everyperson’ he purports […]
On December 20th, President Trump somewhat shockingly announced plans to pull American troops out of Syria. Across mainstream media, from Fox News to MSNBC, and among establishment politicians, Democrat, and Republican alike, the response came in near uniformity … against the decision. It’s not that Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria necessarily holds […]
Dear Jeremy Corbyn, The UK is fewer than 80 days away from crashing out of the European Union without a negotiated deal. The impacts of a no-deal Brexit scenario are catastrophic – the UK would be destined for a lengthy recession, the GDP would shrink by 7.7 percent in 15 years, goods and food supply […]
She the People, an organization that describes itself as a “national network connecting women of color to transform our democracy,” released a survey of political organizers, donors, and activists on potential 2020 Democratic candidates. The results showed Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Cal.) at the top, followed by Representative Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) and former Vice President Joe […]
A new contender has emerged for the most bizarre moment of the Trump presidency, which is really saying something with this presidency — a rival to the time the President stared directly into a solar eclipse without eye protection. ‘Uh, sir … you’ll have to wear these glasses in order to protect your eyes while […]
At the start of the last decade of the 20th century, the Democratic Party was in disarray. Demolished by Reagan in 1980 and ‘84, and then again by H.W. Bush in ‘88, the ideological foundations which set the modern Democratic Party in motion in the 1960s had become corrupted, watered down, out of touch, the […]
Dear Muellerites, you’re being played. There, I said it. This week, many waited with bated breath for the latest revelations by special counsel Robert Mueller and his Russia investigation. The consensus amongst followers in medias mainstream and social was clear — ‘This time we’ve got him!’ Not so much. While more of President Trump’s lieutenants […]
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