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Clinton Campaign Treasurer's Walmart Ties Are Why We Need Bernie Now

While the Daily Kos front page is currently detailing yet another lovely example of why Walmart is the worst person in the world (corporations are people my friend!), I found an even more interesting...

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Giving Bite to Our Bark: Why Labor Needs to Back Bernie Now!

Are we all bark or do we still have some bite?The news this weekend is that the AFL-CIO political committee will recommend that the organization delay the endorsement of any presidential candidate at...

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I Won't Tear Hillary Clinton Down, Either

AndyT, I assume you are in part upset at the diary I wrote earlier today. I thank you for sharing your point of view. Here is where we agree and disagree.I agree wholeheartedly that tearing someone...

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Only One Candidate Stands Outside The Oligarchy

You can probably guess who that candidate is. But no spoilers.This week we saw the release of the early fund raising totals for the various Super PACs supporting the various presidential hopefuls....

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One Question to One Candidate on #BlackLivesMatter (None on Climate, Inequality)

I was THIS close to giving Fox News some props for even MENTIONING #BlackLivesMatter and asking a candidate to grapple with the issue. But then Scott Walker gave a non-answer that could be summed up as...

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Clinton: "We Must Stop Endless Flow of Secret Money..." That I Keep Raking In

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.    George Bernard Shaw,...

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Liberal Media My Ass: Cable News Has Become TRUMPTV

On a day in which Bernie Sanders gave a wonderful, respectful and really amazing speech at Liberty University and on a day in which Hillary Clinton released a plan to combat sexual assault on college...

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NOT BREAKING: Sanders is opposed to TPP

Why is it not breaking? Because he's always been against the TPP. For that matter he's been opposed to bad trade deals that destroy American jobs since the Clintons passed NAFTA back in the 1990s.He...

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"I'm Voting for Bernie or Trump": When the Conventional Wisdom is All Wrong

I do political field work for a living. My friends and family all know this so I get to hear all of their political thoughts as well. But whether it has been out in the field talking to voters about...

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Hillary Has to Take Wall Street Millions Cuz 9/11

I can’t believe I actually heard this answer at a Democratic debate. I had to go back and re-read what she said to make sure I got it right. When asked why it’s okay for her to take millions from Wall...

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Even At Its Best, Clinton Campaign Rests on a Promise of Betrayal

I’m not the only one who watched the debate last night and concluded This Was the Most Important Exchange of the Debate. I’ve already voiced my displeasure with Hillary Clinton’s answer as to why we...

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I Fully Support Our Second Amendment Rights

With all due respect to Colorado is the Shiznit’s current rec list diary, I have to say that I fully support each and every American’s rights under the Second Amendment. Say what you will, but I will...

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Clinton is Good Enough for Bloomberg And That's Not Good Enough For Me!

Hillary Clinton was on Meet the Press this morning and wanted to assure her good friend Michael Bloomberg that he won’t need to fork out a billion dollars and run for president:Presidential hopeful...

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Actually, I've Had It With Naive Clinton "Pragmatists"

The new mainstream media message that echoes Hillary Clinton’s own closing argument last night in Iowa is that we should all “get real” and choose the pragmatic Hillary Clinton over the idealistic yet...

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Hillary's Fastest Flip-Flop Ever: We Know We Can Have Universal Health Care...

Wow. Now Hillary doesn’t even wait a week to reverse course on major issues.She just said not more than a few minutes ago: “I know we can finish the job of achieving universal health care.”Just a few...

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The Candidate Who Ran the 3 A.M. Ad Has No Room To Talk About Being Critical...

So do you remember this ad?3 A.M. ADHillary Clinton’s the one who told us that we can’t trust Barack Obama’s leadership. He’s not fit to lead. He’s not ready. He’ll be uncertain or weak when that call...

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This MUST Be A Question At The Next Debate

While Hillary Clinton bear-hugged the legacy of President Obama for dear life at the last debate and we continued our discussion of the role of money in influencing our politics, it seems that at least...

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Hillary's New Wall Street Dodge: "I'm Being Singled Out!"

Bernie’s hour ended on such a heartwarming note for me. I was in the middle of writing about his authentic, genuine and deeply moving reflection on his spirituality when the moderator asked Hillary...

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In 1996 First Lady Clinton Still "Proud" Of "Conservative Roots" Backing...

Not that long ago in this very election cycle, Hillary Clinton was “pleading guilty” to being a moderate.Now she’s trying to convince voters in the Democratic primary that she’s always been a...

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Can The Clintons Credibly Carry the Progressive Banner Against Trump?

Democrats, we need to take a big collective deep breath after South Carolina.I’ve been awfully critical of Hillary Clinton this election season. That will probably continue. But this criticism comes...

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Hillary's Inevitable Tossing of Progressive Groups Under the Bus Has Begun:...

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”--President George W....

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Clinton Wins Trump States: How Fear of Trump Is Thwarting Hope For Real...

What do the following states have in common?Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Nevada and MassachusettsYou were about to say they were all former members of the...

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Secretary Clinton, Please Specify Which Republican Speech Transcripts We Are...

Last night at the Democratic Debate, Hillary Clinton was asked yet again about the transcripts of her Wall Street speeches. And once again she made the spurious claim that she will release those...

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Why Bernie Would Crush Trump and Why Every Vote For Hillary Puts Trump Closer...

I’m all for party unity. I’m all for keeping Donald Trump out of the White House. So I think it’s important that as Democrats who share those goals we take a serious look at the best way to achieve...

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Hillary on Bernie Voters: "It's Exciting to Be, In Effect, Protesting..."

I have to go to work so this will be short.If Hillary Clinton wants to be a better candidate that can actually rally the party in November, she really, really, really needs to do a better job of...

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The Must See Chart (This Is What Class War Looks Like)

This will be a very short diary.  I just wanted to get this chart out there.  I originally received it as a post by the Facebook group "The Christian Left." This chart puts the class war in simple,...

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Losing the Class War: What's the Matter With West Virginia?

You're walking down the street, minding your own business when all of a sudden a well-dressed man in an expensive three-piece suit jumps out of an alley, whips a contract out of his pocket and yells...

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This Is What Class War Looks Like: A National Campaign, State by State

The wealthiest 5% of Americans control 72% of America's financial wealth.  The bottom 80% control only 7% of the nation's financial wealth. The richest 400 Americans have more combined wealth than the...

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Why Do We Put Up With It?

Germans wouldn't put up with it. Egyptians aren't putting up with anymore.  Even monkeys don't put up with it.The CIA keeps tabs on it all over the world.  When it gets too high, nations tend to become...

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Saluting Eugene Debs: Champion of Human Dignity

Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a...

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Why Do We Put Up With It? Theology Matters

Why do we put up with it?  That's the question I posed in a previous diary, in which I tried to place America's ever widening wealth gap in a global context.  We are the only modern, democratic,...

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America is Giving Up: Why Geithner and GE CEO MUST GO!

"They're all the same." That's the message I keep hearing from scores of disillusioned voters.  Working class and middle class voters.  Swing voters.  Voters who would put "jobs" and "the economy" at...

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Don't Worry Middle-Class, Fifty Thousand McJobs On The Way!

I feel like a huge load has been lifted off of my shoulders.  Just when I was about to write another diary documenting the latest plutocratic assaults on the middle-class, such as Georgia governor...

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When Crazy Trumps Rational, It's Rational to be Crazy

I have a rather busy life right now, so I'm going to have to make this pretty short.  The single biggest problem we have right now in our national politics is that we have one party, the GOP, that is...

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GOPers in Favor of Budget Busting Kickbacks Are NOT "Deficit Hawks"

Sorry, one more really short diary today before I have to run.  I was almost livid last night as I watched The Last Word on MSNBC and saw both Lawrence and his guest accept the GOP framing of the...

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The Snow Crashing of America

The evidence is mounting day by day that the real GOP plan for America is the privatization of everything.Governor Kasich of Ohio not only wants to take away the collective bargaining rights of...

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AP Reports Reid Plan for Almost $3 Trillion in Cuts, NO REVENUE!

Please tell me that this is a bad dream.The AP is reporting that there are not TWO plans for massive cuts to government spending with NO revenue increases in order to achieve a "compromise" that raises...

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Colbert Nails It: Obama and the Billy Goats Gruff

Our politics has descended so far into the realm of unintentional satire and parody that only a comedian can accurately describe what just happened in the debt deal debacle.Stephen Colbert describes...

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Freeloader Laws and The Right to Golf (w/poll!)

I'm tired of letting Republicans win the messaging game.  For that reason, this diary will not mention the GOP-name for a particular kind of labor law that lets a person receive full union benefits...

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Why Do GOP Presidential Candidates Hate Young Adults? (w/poll)

I'm watching the Republican Presidential debate tonight, and I swear I just heard cheering over letting a hypothetical 30 year-old without health insurance die from his injuries in a horrible accident....

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"A Gathering is to Come": Occupying the Hurt and the Joy of Change

On a rainy Wednesday night not too long ago, I had the good fortune to go door to door and talk to people about Occupy.  Many people had heard nothing about it.  Others told me they were glad someone...

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Fallen

This entry is actually a re-post of a Facebook note I wrote nearly four years ago. Events in my personal life have made both the dream I describe and what I took from it highly relevant to me again....

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Books That Changed My Life: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it...

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How the Hell the GOP Held the House

Yesterday I had a long drive back to my home in PA after spending about a month in Massachusetts where my organization was doing work on behalf of the Warren campaign. It was a five-state (all blue!),...

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In The Fall of The New Deal: A Photo Journey Through the FDR Memorial

We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the...

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Laughing At a Jealous God

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.Rien n'est plus affreux que le rire pour la jealousie. --Francoise Sagan, French PlaywrightShe could have just as easily said that to the...

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The Only Chart You Need To Pick a President

I was born in 1979. It's a year that many economists have now found to be a turning point. From the end of the Great Depression until the year I was born, American productivity and prosperity increased...

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How the Hell Is It Illegal to Read or Talk About TPP?

I'm hoping someone here on this site can help me answer this question. Under whose specific legal authority is it illegal to read the text of the TPP or to even talk about it?I'm a fairly good...

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Violating Impartiality: DNC Finance Chair Raises $ For Clinton

According to Politico, the Finance Chair for the DNC, Henry Munoz III, has helped organize a Clinton fund raising event and has also made calls to raise money for her campaign. And to make matters...

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If You're a Monotheist or a Utilitarian, You Gotta Love Stannis Barratheon

SPOILER ALERTIf you haven't yet seen Season 5, Episode 9 of Game of Thrones then let that be your warning. Now, just in case I wasn't clear, let me repeat in more Stannis fashion:SPOILER(S) ALERT Let...

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