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I really like the way the guys are wrapping up their Switchel.

Finally, someone in the “mainstream” media recognizes what the GOP is doing and focuses not on play-by-play, but on the overarching strategy.  As Pierce writes at Esquire, the GOP is “actively working to undermine the American union. . . . … Continue reading →

Yes, the 47 Republican senators who signed the unprecedented, seditious communique to Iran’s leaders are “itching for war,” as Senator Sanders correctly accuses them. But so are the bi-partisan senators on the Appropriations committee demanding we get on the express … Continue reading →

Robert Parry writes at consortiumnews about the inability of U.S. politics and media to acknowledge that our foreign policy blunders and belligerence go a long way toward breeding anti-U.S. sentiment globally.

Lindsay Graham’s stupid, nasty, sophmoric crack about Pelosi’s nips and tucks demands one course of action: Pelosi must compile and publish a list of all the old, rich, white Republicans in the House and Senate who regularly expend their ill-gotten … Continue reading →

The alacrity with which her “people” are bandying around right-wing catch phrases like “politics of envy,” denotes an unwillingness on the part of her campaign team to antagonize Wall Street, and thus an inability to construct a platform voters will … Continue reading →

That’s what Representative Grayson rightly calls the inevitable result of the current U.S. syndrome whereby “every time we see something on our computer screens that we don’t like, we go ahead and bomb it.”

So now we have Fox operative Andrea Tantaros picking up the GOP refrain of the moment and tootling the anti-Semitism jingle. I am waiting for Barbara Boxer to slap down Tantaros the way she so brilliantly did Giuliani. And Fox … Continue reading →

Spoke to an eighty-nine-year-old woman in New England today; she was out snowshoeing for an hour this afternoon!

First, one GOP-er lobs out of left field a scurrilous, preposterous claim about a Democratic big wig. The claim is so vicious and out-there that it knocks the recipient on his/her back foot. (And you know how easily–if I may … Continue reading →