“I understand why people are looking to shake things up,” Obama said. "What I cannot understand is why anybody would think Donald Trump will shake things up in a way that is good for you, because there is absolutely no evidence that this man thinks about anyone but himself.”...
People have worked very hard to rewrite the history of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, but objective historical facts dispute the wishful thinking of the 40th president's admirers. What were some of the bad things that Ronald Reagan did as president?
Some progressives have already said they will oppose any Republican-led changes to immigration policy. “The cruel, inhumane, and unworkable solutions offered by Republicans will only create more disorder and confusion at the border,” said Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, ...
I headed for the union hall, figuring some of those people might have an angle. Problem was, with private-sector unions down to 8 percent of the workforce, the hall had become a Starbucks. I got a vanilla chai latte to go and beat it....
“I can’t really remember when a candidate had shown up in the place where I grew up and told people they were being ripped off and they were right to be angry,” said Sitman, who is on the editorial board of the leftist magazine Dissent, which partners with his...
“We need an open public debate about what is causing these world wide excess deaths, where we consider all possible factors, identify the lethal ones, take them away, and stop people from dying. We follow the evidence wherever it leads. Might it take us somewhere we wouldn’t like to be...
Chances are, given the proliferation of meat and dairy advertising and cultural reinforcement; a person may oppose animal torture but not have thought about their diet. This does not make them a bad person. A vivisector by contrast is someone who directly and consciously engages in the torture...
What do we do with these people once they are purged from power? We can’t have them slip back in like they always manage to do. Whatever the solution, it has to be permanent and it needs to be done yesterday. Shakespeare January 1, 2014 @ 3:37 am From this day to the ending ...
U.S. government has, others have proposed or promulgated have been just symbolic. They have made essentially no difference. The EPA has said this. We oppose all of these because they end up being cronyism. They end up helping certain wealthy people to the disadvantaged of the less fortunate...
That will benefit both consumers and new entrants, even though it may well not serve the interest of existing providers. We oppose special tax carve-outs for individual businesses or industries, even as we advocate lower tax burdens for all enterprises, large and small. That's not a "pro-...