Category: U.S. Politics
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The Southern Firewall
Reading Time: 3 minutesRemember after New Hampshire when the Clinton campaign was talking about its firewall in South Carolina? I assumed it was a reference to black voters. I was wrong. The Clinton ‘firewall’ in the South is part of the general Clinton milieu—a milieu that is becoming so all-pervasive that it deserves its own…
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In Search of the Citizen
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday the Washington Post is counseling us about how we should speak of the dead. In my opinion, it’s time to think about the living. We are in search of the citizen. But apparently, columnist Steven Petrow objects to the criticism of Justice Antonin Scalia that came out so soon after his…
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Antonin Scalia, RIP, RIH
Reading Time: 4 minutesI think what’s needed here is a life-saving dose of reality, without which the glowing tributes (streams of rancid filth) dedicated to deceased Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia will surely carry us all away in a stinky flood. This is the man whose ethics the Los Angeles Times questioned back in 2004…
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Sanders Was Right About North Korea
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe most substantial criticism the Clinton campaign has been able to come up with against Bernie Sanders is his lack of foreign policy experience. However, it would seem that this criticism is no longer credible. During New Hampshire’s debate, Sanders stated his opinion that North Korea represents the greatest threat to…
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Democratic Establishment Rallies Around U.S. Foreign Policy
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor Gloria Steinem, Madeleine Albright, and members of Congress, this election is all about gender. Gloria Steinem was trying to explain why young women support Bernie Sanders and she came up with this: they support him because his campaign is where the boys are. ((https://newrepublic.com/minutes/129335/feminist-gloria-steinem-says-young-women-support-bernie-want-attention-boys)) Madeline Albright started out with the claim…
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The Iowa Democratic Party Can Do Better Than This
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere we go again. The Iowa Democratic Party didn’t hire enough help so the campaigns were asked to help count the vote in some precincts. As of this morning one percent of the precincts were still missing. Monday night voter fraud was brought up when C-Span posted video showing that the…
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Yes Virginia, There Really is The People
Reading Time: 5 minutesI”m not sure what Curtis White had in mind with his recent article for Salon Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and the Real Reason Why Change Never Seems to Come. Salon, Jan. 30, 2016). https://www.salon.com/2016/01/30/this_is_an_oligarchy_not_a_democracy_donald_trump_bernie_sanders_and_the_real_reason_why_change_never_seems_to_come/I agreed with his argument against regime change which is carried out through the back door of democratization, but after…
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Hillary Clinton: The Bride of Frankenfood
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSource: Hillary Clinton: The Bride of Frankenfood
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Wasserman Schultz, Hillary Weave A Tangled Web
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor many of us the data scandal scenario that was being presented to us in which Bernie Sanders was the offender and Hillary Clinton the innocent victim had an aura of unreality. But then we were told that the behavior of Sanders’ staffers was even worse than we knew. Heck, even Greg…