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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

An Honest Argument for Hillary Clinton, from a Bernie Supporter

September 30, 2016 2016 Election Bernie Sanders Conservative Current Events Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Neo-Conservatives Policy Progressive Racism Terrorism Voting 2 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

American Elections are Critically Vulnerable to Foreign Hackers

August 30, 2016 2016 Election Corruption Elections Foreign Policy Voting Voting Rights 5 Comments

DOJ Announces a Reduction in its Private Prison Usage…With One Enormous Caveat

August 23, 2016 Corruption Criminal Justice DOJ Immigration Policy lobbying Private Prisons Privatization Undocumented Immigration 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

CDC Reports on America’s Large, and Growing, Weight Problem

August 8, 2016 Current Events Economics Health Policy Medicare Policy 2 Comments

DNC Email Leaks Prove that the Primary was Unfairly Biased in Hillary’s Favor

July 25, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Corruption Dark Money democracy Democrats Hillary Clinton Media Money in Politics Voter Disenfranchisement Voting Voting Rights Wikileaks 11 Comments

Summarizing the GOP Convention: Fear and Loathing in Cleveland

July 23, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Civil Rights Conservative Corporatism Corruption Discrimination Donald Trump extremism Inequality Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Policy Racism Republicans Social Conservative Tea Party Terrorism Undocumented Immigration War Crimes 1 Comment

Hillary Promises to Overturn Citizens United 30 Days After Election but Can’t Admit Why it’s a Problem

July 18, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Corporatism Corruption Dark Money Deregulation Hillary Clinton Money in Politics Multi-National Corporations Regulation Super-PACS Supreme Court Wolf-PAC 5 Comments

House Democrats Boo Bernie, Accidentally Reveal Major Problem in Washington

July 11, 2016 2016 Election Bernie Sanders Corporate Greed Corporate Welfare Corporatism Corruption Dark Money Democrats extremism Hillary Clinton Money in Politics Multi-National Corporations Partisan Fighting Policy Super-PACS Supreme Court TPP 3 Comments

In Aftermath of Istanbul Terror, Trump wants us to Become More like ISIS

June 30, 2016 Civil Rights Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans ISIS Islam Terrorism Torture War War Crimes 1 Comment

SCOTUS Erodes 4th Amendment, Legitimizing Evidence from Illegal Searches

June 24, 2016 4th Amendment Civil Rights Conservative Constitution Criminal Justice Discrimination Law and Order Legal Injustice Supreme Court 5 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

Terrorist Kills 50 in Shooting Rampage at Orlando Nightclub, Extremism a Real Danger in the Aftermath

June 12, 2016 2nd Amendment Civil Rights Domestic Surveillance Domestic Terrorism Donald Trump extremism Gun Control guns ISIS Islam Law and Order Racism Terrorism War 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

Multiple-Resistant Bacteria Could Send US Medicine Back to the Dark Ages

June 1, 2016 Current Events Health Policy Policy Regulation 1 Comment

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

Using Triangulation to Predict the Consequences of a Trump, Hillary, or Bernie Presidency

May 12, 2016 Bernie Sanders Civil Rights Conservative Corporatism Defense Policy Democrats Deregulation Donald Trump Educational Policy Environment Environmental Policy Foreign Policy Health Policy Hillary Clinton Immigration Policy Insane Republicans Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Policy Progressive Republicans Tax Policy Tea Party Trans-Pacific Partnership War 7 Comments

Trump is Uncontested in GOP Primary Contest…Sane Americans have Day of Mourning

May 6, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Conservative Corporatism Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Media Partisan Fighting Policy Republicans Sheldon Adelson Tea Party 5 Comments

Why Have Some Hillary Supporters Become Conservatives on Campaign Finance and Voting Rights?

April 19, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Civil Rights Conservative Corporatism Corruption Dark Money democracy Democrats Hillary Clinton Money in Politics Republicans Voter Disenfranchisement Voting Rights 7 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

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