[above: A petulant child, forced to interact with adults, pouts.] I don’t have the time right now to put this in the proper context, but I wanted to pass along this video of our President, moments before leaving the United States for the G-7 meeting in Canada, declaring himself to be “Russia’s worst nightmare,” and, […]
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Clinton v. Trump
OK, I’ve decided to open a bottle of whiskey and watch tonight’s presidential debate between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and reality television personality Donald Trump. And I’m going to try, to the best of my ability, to blog throughout. If you’d like to join me in the conversation, feel free to post comments […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2016, Alicia Machado, conspiracy theories, debates, Donald Trump, EOS, Ford, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, Iraq war, Jennifer Flowers, Lester Holt, lies, live blogging, misogyny, NAFTA, nuclear weapons, politics, Presidential politics, race, racial profiling, Russia, Scott Baio, Sean Hannity, sexism, sniffles, stamina, stop and frisk, tax cuts, temperament, theology of tax cuts, trickle down economics, Vladimir Putin 75 Comments
Elizabeth Warren outlines the fight ahead for Progressives at Netroots Nation 2014
One of my favorite people in the whole world, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, dropped by the Netroots Nation conference yesterday in Detroit to talk about banking reform, the threat of oligarchy, the fight to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and those things that she feels that we, as Progressives, are ready to fight for. […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Detroit, Politics Also tagged big banks, corporate personhood, corporations are not people, corruption, Elizabeth Warren, gay rights, infrastructure, lobbyists, marriage equality, minimum wage, net neutrality, Netroots Nation, populism, power grid, Presidential politics, Progressive platform, progressive politics, social security, student loan debt, tax loopholes, too big to fail, unfair policies, Wall Street reform 15 Comments