Before I jump into this, there are a few items I’d like to make clear upfront…. First, I truly believe that any candidate still standing in the Democratic field would be a dramatic improvement over Donald Trump, and I intend to support whomever it is that comes out of the convention with the nomination. My […]
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The big take-aways from Super Tuesday
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2016, 2020, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Bros, Bernie Sanders, coalition building, conspiracy theories, Dan Pfeifer, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party, democratic primary, dirtbag left, DNC, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Ezra Klein, get out the vote, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Latino voters, low-propensity voters, Marianne Williamson, Michael Bloomberg, Nathan J Robinson, Pete Buttigieg, Presidential politics, primary elections, rigged elections, Shaun King, South Carolina, Super Tuesday, swing states, the black vote, voter turnout 115 Comments
Rand Paul: lunch counter Libertarian
By now, you’ve no doubt heard that, yesterday, Ron Paul’s son, Rand Paul, who just won the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky, said that he would like to live in a world where segregated lunch counters were allowed. And, I’m not exaggerating. Paul, a Libertarian purist, said that, although he detests racism, he feels that […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Observations, Politics Also tagged blockbusting, Department of Education, discrimination, Hitler, Kentucky, Libertarianism, Nazi analogies, Newt Gingrich, Obama is a Socialist, Rachel Maddow, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, secular socialist left, segregation, Stalin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the free market will fix everything 61 Comments