Posted by guest-blogger Sam Ross-Brown. Late last month, the City of Baltimore began notifying thousands of residents that their water may soon be shut off due to lack of payment. As Sarah Lazare reports for Common Dreams, residents owing more than $250 in payments going back at least six months were notified that they had […]
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Rand Paul’s Millennial Outreach, Now with Flip-Flops
Posted by guest-blogger Amanda Teuscher With the news that presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz’s affiliated super-PACs have raked in $31 million in less than a week, it looks like Senator Rand Paul is going to have to sell a lot of beer koozies. Paul, who announced his candidacy on Tuesday, is already facing skepticism from […]
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North Charleston Murder Stems from American Tradition
Posted by guest-blogger Adele M. Stan An unarmed man shot in the back. An innocent man released after serving 30 years on death row. The centennial of Billie Holiday’s birth. These are the stories that emanated from my radio yesterday, and all bear a common thread: the devaluing of black life. The biggest news, of […]
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A Reminder About Netanyahu, Iraq, and Iran
View image | gettyimages.com Just a few weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked like a figure with huge influence in American politics. There he was addressing Congress, with Republicans practically carrying him into the House chamber on their shoulders. He was on every American television show he wanted, delivering his dark warnings of […]
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Why Republicans Won’t Convince the Electorate That Hillary Clinton Is a Radical
View image | gettyimages.com One of the persistent conservative narratives about Hillary Clinton is that her identity as a supposedly moderate Democrat is a ruse, meant to conceal her radical leftist intents. If and when she reaches her long-held goal of becoming president, the mask will be removed and the true horror of her socialist […]
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Photo of the Day, Their Elections Are As Dumb As Ours Edition
View image | gettyimages.com That’s prime minister David Cameron, campaigning ahead of the May 7 elections in Great Britain. You see, the little lamb represents the hopes and dreams of every Briton, to whom Cameron’s Conservative Party will gently feed the nourishing milk of prudent fiscal and monetary policy, so it can grow up big […]
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Rand Paul—and Every Other Candidate—to Run Against Washington
View image | gettyimages.com You know what America needs? A candidate who will change the way they do business in Washington, bring an outsider’s perspective, stand up to all those politicians, and make Washington work for America and not the other way around! I know we need that, because that’s what Barack Obama told us […]
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In 2016, Money Will Matter More Than Ever, Yet Not At All
Flickr/Tracy O There will be more money spent on the 2016 presidential election than any before in human history. OK, we don’t know that with absolute certainty, but let’s just say it would shocking if it didn’t turn out to be true. The Koch brothers alone have promised to raise and spend the awfully specific […]
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Photo of the Day, Friendly Robot Edition
View image | gettyimages.com Titan the robot entertains onlookers at a convention center in Shenzen, China. Minutes later, their squeals of delight turned to screams of terror.
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Vote Ted Cruz, Because Jesus
Here it is, the first television ad of the 2016 presidential campaign, courtesy of the first official presidential candidate, Ted Cruz. No beating around the bush here-we get a mention of Jesus in the very first sentence: “Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single […]
