It's Getting Personal... Deporting Our Future
We had sad news from Augustine on Friday. One of his crew, someone who has been working hard to support himself and his family, someone who has been here for more than a decade, was picked up and is...
View ArticleSupreme Court Opinion on Prayer - Violated in Arizona House?
This week the first openly Atheist member in the Arizona House, Athena Salman, was rebuked for her prayer on grounds that it did not specifically reference a “higher power”. This requirement is...
View ArticleA Peek Behind the GOP's Healthcare Mask
While we watch the GOP’s pathetic attempt to “fix healthcare”, Eric Sherman has published a great take-down of the entire charade for Forbes. The focus is healthcare — and how freakin’ insane many of...
View ArticleMcCain Slams Obamacare in Letter to Constituents - He Doesn't Have Our Back
We were all heartened when Senator McCain stood up and voted No on the Senate’s healthcare bill a few weeks ago. Prior to the vote, I, like many others, had been repeatedly contacting my Senators’...
View ArticleStop, What?! Good Ideas on Drug Policy from a Conservative Rag?
Started reading a very detailed article on the “dangers” of marijuana use. While some of the article wandered aimlessly through typical conservative angst over the problems associated with marijuana...
View ArticleWhile We're Being Distracted By the Shiny Orange Bauble...
NMP Trump is sucking all of the air out of the room. Meanwhile, after more than a decade of plotting and working in the shadows, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has stepped up their game — and they...
View ArticleHard Compassion: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye West
Yeah, we all have our opinions on the disaster of Kanye’s recent, public turn toward Trump. But there are few of us who can really understand what might lead West to this point, and even fewer who...
View ArticleAdd This To Your Inequality Phrasebook: "Financial Strip-Mining"
The term “financial strip-mining” is evocative, powerful; and the concepts behind it important, and clearly outlined in a recent interview with Les Leopold in The Sun Magazine. In case you haven’t...
View ArticleHow Putin Turned Trump (It Was So Easy)
Today, in a C-SPAN interview for his new book release, Malcolm Nance spells it out so clearly that even Trump should be able to get it. As you probably already know, Malcolm Nance, worked in...
View ArticleAddressing What Ails Us (or How do we ensure a Trump free future?)
Yeah, I know, it feels like we’ve talked this to death already. And with the mid-terms just around the corner, strong Resist-ance, and clear progress on Mueller’s investigation… well, it seems we’re...
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