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Why We Need a New Democratic Party by Robert Reich…
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Trump Administration Will Pressure Foreign States to Probe Clinton Foundation…
Foreign governments will be encouraged to investigate the Clinton Foundation’s finances, as many are already turning off money spigots to the scandal-scarred group…the new administration plans to pressure the US ambassadors it will name to bring up the foundation with foreign governments…
Election Therapy From My Basket of Deplorables by Maureen Dowd…
My little basket of deplorables, as I call my conservative family, gloated with Trump toasts galore, and Kevin presented me with his annual holiday column with an extra flourish. My colleague Paul Krugman tweeted Friday that “affluent, educated suburbanites” who voted for Trump are “fools.” What else is there to say, he asked…
Mainstream Media Recap: Who Colluded With the Clinton Campaign?…
This past election cycle was unprecedented in terms of the bias and lack of objectivity exercised by the mainstream media. The emphasis on mainstream media blaming “fake news” for Donald Trump’s election is an attempt to distract and divert the feedback loop developed between the Clinton campaign and much of the press…
The 60 Minutes Interview with a Youthful George Soros That Well, Tells Us a Lot about George Soros (VIDEO)…
George Soros held a candid interview with Steve Croft of 60 Minutes back in the 90’s that provides one with a window, albeit small window, into what motivates Soros where to provide his ‘moral’ capital…buying candidates and lots of non-governmental organizations….
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How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul by Matt Stoller…
Restoring America’s anti-monopoly traditions does not mean rejecting what the Watergate Babies accomplished. It means merging their understanding of a multicultural democratic society with Brandeis’s vision of an “industrial democracy.” …
It’s Time for the Clintons, Rubin to Go–and Soros Too by Michael Hudson…
In the week leading up to last Tuesday’s election the press was busy writing obituaries for the Republican Party. This continued even after Donald Trump’s “surprising” victory – which, like the 2008 bank-fraud crash, “nobody could have expected.” The pretense is that Trump saw what no other politician saw: that the economy has not recovered […]
America Called Bullshit on the Cult of Clinton by Brendan O’Neill…
If you want to see politics based on emotionalism over reason and a borderline-religious devotion to an iconic figure, forget the Trump Army; look instead to the Cult of Clinton…
Bill Clinton: It’s Hillary Fault, Not Comey’s by Edward Klein…
In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Bill and Hillary Clinton had a knock-down, drag-out fight about her effort to blame FBI Director James Comey for her slump in the polls and looming danger of defeat…
SC Gov. Nikki Haley: Trump Won Despite Republican Officials, Not Because Of Them…
Nikki Haley told attendees at the Federalist Society’s annual convention Friday that Donald Trump won the 2016 election in spite of what elected Republicans have done over the past decade, not because of their actions…
16 FOR ’16: Bite-Sized Observations on a Wild Election Night by Sabato’s Crystal Ball…
Now that we’ve had a week to digest the results of the 2016 election, here are some observations about what happened and what the results might tell us about the future: 1. Electoral map tilts to the GOP…
Bernie Sanders Shuns Democrats: “I Will Finish This Term As An Independent”…
In yet another slap in the face of the Democratic party, The Hill reports that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) won’t officially join the Democratic Party even though he was appointed to a leadership position within the Senate Democratic caucus this week…
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World Suffers From Trump Shell Shock – Here’s What Will Happen Next by Brandon Smith…
I’ve been saying this for a long time, and I’ll say it again here — in life there are only two kinds of people: those who know and those who don’t. Some might claim there is a third option: those who don’t want to know. In any case, if you want to be able to […]
Pilot Forced to Lecture Passengers During Flight About Politics, Decency When Dispute Breaks Out…
A United Airlines pilot was forced to intervene over the intercom during a flight from San Fransisco to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to explain to the passengers aboard the importance of remaining calm after a political dispute had erupted about last weeks’ election results, the Washington Post reported Monday…
The Revenge of Class and the Death of the Democratic Party…
The Democratic Party of my lifetime – the coalition of Wall St finance capital and identity-politics voters that arose during the 1980s and 90s – is dead. It has been killed, quite ironically, by the revenge of class politics – the kind once championed by the Democrats. Decades of economic misery…
It’s Class, Stupid, Not Race by Marshall Auerback…
During the Presidential campaign of 1988, the Reverend Jesse Jackson was asked, “How you are going to get the support of the white steelworker?” He replied: “By making him aware he has more in common with the black steel workers by being a worker, than with the boss by being white”…
Paul Ryan Nominated ‘Unanimously’ by Voice Vote…
House Republicans on Tuesday afternoon unanimously nominated Paul Ryan for a second term as Speaker. The GOP conference gave the Wisconsin Republican voice-vote approval, forgoing a secret ballot tally that would have shown how many Republicans oppose Ryan leading the chamber…
McConnell to Lead Senate GOP, Schumer to Lead Minority…
Senate Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell on Wednesday to be majority leader next year while Democrats picked Chuck Schumer to lead them, setting the chief actors as the chamber prepares to push an agenda that will be dominated by Donald Trump and the GOP…
FLASHBACK: Liberal News Site Slate Defends Electoral College: “The Argument That It Is Undemocratic Falls Flat”…
With over half the voters complaining that their safe-space-protector-in-chief ‘unfairly’ lost the election due to the sinister “electoral college” voting mechanism, we thought it worth noting that uber-liberal ‘news’ site Slate.com defended the electoral college in 2012…
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