At Koch group summit, a restrained enthusiasm for Trump. Www.renewamerica. By Ellis Washington We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism, until they suddenly awake to find they have communism. ~ Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev ...
Communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism by voting. It's the same difference between murder and suicide. ~ Ayn Rand New York Times: America's "Pravda" To celebrate the 50 anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, like clockwork the Socialist apparatchiks at the New York Times had their resident "journalist" Robert Pear, write his prepackaged article, a glowing assessment of Medicare and Medicaid programs. The legislation fulfilled decades of socialist dreams going back as far as Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) and only partially fulfilled by FDR's Socialist New Deal, but, unlike Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, it was passed with votes from a substantial number of Republicans. Freedom or Slavery? Book Notice Vol. 1 @ Barack Obama: 'I think if I ran, I would win' - Edward-Isaac Dovere. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Four more years?
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he’s confident he could win a third term, if only the Constitution would let him run. Story Continued Below “I actually think I’m a pretty good president. I think if I ran, I could win. Real Truth Now - Photos du journal. Cops slam into Brooklyn man's parked SUV, bust him for 'driving' with no license: suit. A Brooklyn man is claiming cops falsely arrested him for driving without a license after they dented a parked car he was merely sitting in - and embellished details about the caught-on-tape accident.
Robert Jackson, 31, said he was waiting in his girlfriend's Ford SUV outside his Brownsville home on April 2013 when a patrol car drove against traffic on the one-way street. Trying to avoid an oncoming truck, the police vehicle backed up and damaged its bumper and nicked the SUV. Officer Christopher Oliver wrote in the criminal complaint that he "went to the driver's side door of defendant's vehicle and observed the door open and the keys in the ignition" before arresting Jackson for operating a vehicle with a suspended license, according to the document.
Aaron Showalter/New York Daily News Robert Jackson claimed he was waiting in a parked car in April 2013 when a police cruiser hit the side of the vehicle. Bill Maher schools Limbaugh, Hume and Beck, bullying not manly (VIDEO) There is a powerful message in this Bill Maher New Rule snippet.
He contrasted the façade of some on the Right’s manliness with what it really is, bullying. Bill Maher calls out the bullies. Bill Maher gave a powerful and well written last New Rule. It was satirical, graphic, but reality based. It is something that needed to be said, in full context. Bill Maher starts with the attack by the Right on President Obama when he stated had he had a son he may not let him play football. That was just the lead into the real meat of what the New Rule was trying to accomplish. Bill Maher contrasted the façade of the Right’s manliness with what it really is, bullying. Bill Maher nails it on the head again. Bill Maher’s most prescient prose shows the depravity of what an irresponsible macho attitude have made vogue. On race, conservatives are silent.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
" -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sometimes, you get the feeling that's the only King quote conservatives know. They can't quote what he said about unions: "We can all get more together than we can apart. " They can't quote what he said about poverty: "The solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income. " They can't quote what he said about injustice: "America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked, 'insufficient funds.'" But they always quote the "content of character" passage from King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Sarah Palin is the latest. You will hear President Obama talk about race only slightly more frequently than you will hear Mitch McConnell say, "Get down, with your bad self!
" The silence they preach is not golden. Six Initiatives to Fight Citizens United. Bernie Sanders - Photos du journal. Being Liberal - Photos du journal. Being Liberal - Photos du journal. Bill Moyers Essay: The United States of Inequality. BILL MOYERS: Welcome.
Inequality matters. You will hear people say it doesn’t, but they are usually so high up the ladder they can’t even see those at the bottom. The distance between the first and the least in America is vast and growing. The Washington Post recently took a look at two counties in Florida and found that people who live in the more affluent St. Johns County live longer than those who live next door in less rich Putnam County. That’s true across America. MARTHA MENDOZA: I’ve been a journalist in this area for 25 years, and during that time it has gone from having a pretty robust middleclass to being an area where you see this great divide of wealthy and poor, and nowhere do you see that more than in the Silicon Valley, where 25 years ago this was a place of orchards and farms and ranching and small businesses, and it has completely changed now so that you have incredibly wealthy people and incredibly poor people and a growing gap.
DANIEL GARCIA: This is my tent.