In a startling Axios summary list called “Bernie Sanders’ 2020 plan to restructure your life,” Axios publisher Jim Vanderhei (and Juliet Bartz) is sounding the alarm about the nightmare scenario of a potential Bernie Sanders presidency. The piece was featured in Mike Allen’s widely read Top 10 — at the top. It’s a piece that […]
Sanders Declares China Has Done More to Address Extreme Poverty While Not Mentioning China Stole America’s Jobs…
Sanders Tells Half the Story on China’s Success of Addressing Extreme Poverty…
Bernie’s ‘Green New Deal’ to Fight Climate Change Would ‘Nationalize’ 30% of U.S. Economy…
Vermont Senator and 2020 hopeful Bernie Sanders unveiled his $16 trillion plan to combat climate change earlier this month; a proposal that analysts say would nationalize nearly one third of the entire American economy. “Atop our existing government spending, comprising some 40% of GDP, the Vermont Senator wouldn’t just nationalize one-fifth of the economy with […]
China, Joe Biden and the 2020 Election…
On April 25, 2019, Joe Biden declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Seven days later, on May 3, 2019, the Chinese sent a diplomatic cable to the Trump Administration blowing up a 150-page draft agreement that had taken many months to negotiate. The cable was riddled with reversals by China that undermined core […]
OPINION: Liberals Don’t ‘Invest’; They Spend Other People’s Money by Terence P. Jeffrey…
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-avowed socialist, sometimes sounds like a multibillionaire entrepreneur when promoting his political agenda. He intends, you see, to “invest” a great deal of money. Of course, unlike a billionaire entrepreneur, Sanders won’t be investing his own money. He will be “investing” yours. Nor does Sanders intend to be a […]
Barack Obama Launches ‘Redistricting U’ Campaign for ‘Fair Maps’…
Former President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled a new initiative to influence redistricting efforts across the United States. The initiative, Redistricting U, will send activists to provide free training and tools to volunteers involved in redistricting efforts and guide groups on how to “be leaders in the movement for fair maps.” “Training is at the […]
Argument Preview: Justices to Tackle Partisan Gerrymandering…Again by Amy Howe…
Every 10 years, the federal government conducts a census. The states then use the data from the census to draw new maps for their state legislatures and federal congressional districts. The maps often take politics into account – for example, to protect incumbents. But next Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether […]
Judges Rule North Carolina Unconstitutionally Gerrymandered in Favor of GOP…
A panel of three federal judges ruled on Monday that congressional districts in North Carolina are unconstitutionally gerrymandered in favor of Republicans and said they may have to be redrawn prior to the upcoming midterm elections. In 2016, a federal court struck down the congressional map drawn by North Carolina lawmakers in 2011, calling it […]
Supreme Court Rules All But One Texas Election District in Lawsuit…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Texas lawmakers illegally gerrymandered one district by race when they drew up federal and state legislative districts in 2011 and later amended them in 2013, limiting the rights and power of black and Hispanic voters there but not in 3 other challenged districts. “It was the challengers’ […]