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TRUMP’S END RUN AROUND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
It is time for the Democrats to stand up and ask it: “Which country is Donald Trump working for?”
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YUK AWAY, JUNIOR ALITO
Why is it that the children of totalitarian Supreme Court justices are so fatuous? I wonder. As an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, Philip Alito, son of the infamous Supreme Court “Justice” Samuel Alito, wrote a laugh-riot bio from … Continue reading
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THE SAME ELITIST CLUB vs. THE REST OF US
Justice Kennedy’s family and the Trumps are the new-normal bedfellows. They belong, as David Little writes in the Washington Post, to: “an elite increasingly cloistered not just from the poor but also from America as a whole. America’s super-rich and … Continue reading
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TRUMP’S CULT IS PROFOUNDLY ANTI-DEMOCRACY
NPR’s decision to air the Declaration of Independence again this year is therefore, naturally once again assailed by the cult as evidence of partisan bias.
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WHEN PETER STRZOK TESTIFIES NEXT WEEK
Democratic congress people must be sure to ask whether his documented animus towards Hillary Clinton compromised his work on the email investigation.
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OUR ROGUE SUPREME COURT
I remember in the fall of 2000, Tchernichova was glued to the TV day after day watching the electoral debacle unfold. When I asked her how she could stand to watch so much of it, she said she was virtually … Continue reading
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GOP’S WAR ON AMERICA HEATS UP IN KENTUCKY
Vicious Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin goes on a rampage, denying vision and dental services to the state’s Medicaid patients because a court told him that his draconian work requirements are illegal. Gov. Bevin’s paroxysms of vengeful hate toward the citizens … Continue reading
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DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
This is what a representative government–the kind that the right-wing elitists on the Supreme Court are trying to extinguish–looks like. This is American democracy. This is what’s called being held accountable for your actions. Advocate for Americans and the rest … Continue reading
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THE SIMPLISTIC IDEA THAT JUSTICE KENNEDY WAS A MODERATE
Larry Beinart at Al-Jazeera explodes it head-on. “When it comes to money and power,” Kennedy had been “an agent of the top one percent in its class warfare against the rest.” Justice Kennedy voted against democracy over and over again, … Continue reading
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SCHUMER WALKING THE DEMS INTO THE LION’S MOUTH
His ridiculously weak strategy is to abandon any demands that Trump’s latest Supreme Court horror appointment be tabled until after the election. Cory Booker made the persuasive argument last week that Trump, the subject of a criminal investigation, should not … Continue reading
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