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Senator Sanders asks why our budget supplies trillions for war, but infrastructure in Flint and many, many other places in the country continues to rot away.

Josh Marshall at talkingpointsmemo is astonished at the way that Williams just makes it up out of thin air to justify what the GOP is doing.

Cenk Uygur details the way that Scalia’s judical decisions were utterly opportunistic, motivated largely by his aggressive promotion of his personal politics, ideology and religious beliefs.

Yes, he was saying over the weekend, the constitutional workings of the United States government and its judicial system should be respected. Now he’s singing a different tune.

Eric Boehlert at Media Matters for America chronicles the way “the Beltway press almost immediately began to seamlessly frame the unfolding debate about the Supreme Court Justice’s replacement along the contours of Republican talking points. To do so, the press … Continue reading →

Steve Rendall of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting responds to Bob Woodward’s preposterous statement on CNN to the effect that the U.S. public would object to any replacement for Scalia who was not as radically, as outlandishly regressive as he. … Continue reading →

You know, if the Republicans prevail in their latest seditious assault on the U.S. government as we have known it, you can bet that if a Democrat is elected president they will–whether in the majority or not (and yes, defeatist … Continue reading →

The New York Times’ editorial board asks whether the GOP will “be willing to create a constitutional crisis and usurp the authority of the president to ensure that the Supreme Court functions as one branch of this government?” YES. They … Continue reading →

Again, the gap between perception and reality–fostered, of course, by our “mainstream” “news” media–is staggering Tom Engelhardt at Tomdispatch.com exposes the tragic farce of Obama directing more slush toward the Pentagon, to be used, among other things to provoke a … Continue reading →

Madeleine Albright, who signed off on the deaths-by-sanctions of 500,000 Iraquis, threatens eternal damnation to those who don’t vote for her friend. The degradation of our public  figures is fathomless. The almost incantatory insistence by Democratic party hacks that we … Continue reading →