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Category Archives: The Media

Fake News or Self-Justifying Confirmation Bias?

January 10, 2017 1st Amendment 2016 Election Media Media Freedom propaganda Leave a comment

America Elects Trump, What this Means, How it Happened, and Who is to Blame

November 9, 2016 2016 Election Civil Rights Conservative Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans Media Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Policy Progressive Republicans Voting 3 Comments

What to Look for as the 2016 Polls Close, State Results and Demographic Turnout

November 8, 2016 2016 Election Donald Trump Elections Hillary Clinton Partisan Fighting Voting 4 Comments

Is Trump’s Decline in the Polls due to Voters Changing their Minds, or are Trump Voters Hiding their Vote?

October 19, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Current Events Democrats Donald Trump Elections extremism Hillary Clinton Republicans Voting 1 Comment

Catastrophe 2016: Trump Exposed as a Sexual Predator and Hillary’s Duplicitous Speech Transcripts Leaked

October 9, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bankers banksters Bernie Sanders Big Banks Corporatism Corruption Current Events Donald Trump Elections extremism Hillary Clinton Media Money in Politics News Regulation Sexism TPP Wikileaks 4 Comments

Don’t let Rioters in Charlotte Distract from the Real Protesters’ Message

September 22, 2016 Black Lives Matter Civil Rights Criminal Justice Current Events Discrimination Inequality Media Police Police Brutality Racism 1 Comment

Climate Change: The Issue the Establishment Forgot

September 13, 2016 2016 Election climate climate science Donald Trump effects of climate change Environment Environmental Policy Environmental Protection global climate change Hillary Clinton Media Policy Voting 3 Comments

Donald Trump Campaign is the Real-Life Political Reenactment of Mel Brooks’s The Producers

August 11, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Campaigns Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans Media Partisan Fighting Racism Republicans 2 Comments

The Media Must Demand Policy Specifics from Trump and Clinton

June 20, 2016 Defense Policy Donald Trump Educational Policy Environmental Policy Foreign Policy Health Policy Hillary Clinton Immigration Policy Media Partisan Fighting Policy Tax Policy 1 Comment

Media Declares Hillary Winner in 2016 Primary based Upon Anonymous Super-Delegate Poll

June 7, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Elections Hillary Clinton Media Voting 7 Comments

Donald Trump Could Be the Real-Life King of Qarth from Game of Thrones

May 24, 2016 2016 Election Donald Trump extremism Media Money in Politics 2 Comments

Democrats Need to Stop Underestimating Donald Trump

May 23, 2016 2016 Election Democrats Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Media Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Policy political candidates Republicans Tea Party Terrorism Trans-Pacific Partnership War 3 Comments

The Four Forms of Legalized Political Corruption

April 14, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Campaigns Corporate Greed Corporate Welfare Corporatism Corruption Dark Money democracy Democrats Hillary Clinton Money in Politics Republicans Super-PACS Wolf-PAC 1 Comment

The Democracy Spring Will Not be Televised

April 12, 2016 2016 Election Corporate Greed Corporatism Corruption democracy Media Money in Politics Voting Wolf-PAC 7 Comments

Panama Papers Expose the Global Elite’s Shadowy Web of Corruption and Tax Dodging

April 5, 2016 Corporatism Corruption Economics Hillary Clinton Inequality International Relations Obama Tax Policy Taxation Trade Trans-Pacific Partnership Trickle Down Economics 2 Comments

Dear Republicans: Your Presidential Primary is Embarrassing the USA and Causing Real Foreign Relations Problems

April 1, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Discrimination Donald Trump extremism Foreign Policy Insane Republicans International Relations Racism Republicans Ted Cruz Terrorism Voting 3 Comments

Hillary Emulates Trump, Refuses to Debate in NYC Unless Bernie is Nicer to Her

March 29, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Campaigns Hillary Clinton Media propaganda 5 Comments

Super Tuesday: The Democrats Run on While the GOP Continues its Slow Self-Immolation

March 4, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Conservative Current Events Democrats Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Partisan Fighting Republicans Tea Party Voting 4 Comments

Donald Trump is the Auto-Immune Disorder of the Conservative Movement

February 26, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Conservative democracy Donald Trump extremism Partisan Fighting Political Primary Racism Religion in Politics Sexism Tea Party 3 Comments

The New Hampshire Primary: Sanders and Trump Dominate

February 10, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Democrats Donald Trump Elections extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Jeb Bush Marco Rubio Media Republicans Voting 2 Comments

Dear Hillary: Your Primary Tactics are Endangering Your General Election Odds

February 9, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Corporatism Democrats Hillary Clinton Media Partisan Fighting Policy Progressive Republicans Sexism 9 Comments

The Three Big Winners of the Iowa Caucus: Bernie, Cruz, and Rubio

February 3, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders democracy Democrats Elections extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Iowa Caucus Marco Rubio Media Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Republicans Tea Party Ted Cruz Voting 4 Comments

The Progressive Case for Free Speech and Opposing “Social Justice” Censorship

January 21, 2016 1st Amendment Civil Rights Conservative Constitution extremism freedom of speech gay rights Media Media Freedom Progressive Racism Undocumented Immigration 12 Comments

Politifact Declares Trump Liar of the Year, Overlooks the Fact that the Entire Modern GOP is Based on Lies

January 7, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans Media Partisan Fighting Republicans Tea Party 1 Comment

DOD Manual Declares that Military Officers have Power to Detain Journalists as “Unprivileged Belligerents”

August 26, 2015 1st Amendment Civil Rights Constitution Criminal Justice freedom of speech Indefinite Detention Media Media Freedom Military Police State Terrorism War War Crimes 2 Comments

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