Discussions
Why Pundits Have to Hairsplit Pardons vs. Commutations to Hit Trump
Via: vic-eldred
•
News & Politics
•
179 Comments
•
9 years ago
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski asserted on Tuesday morning, with zero evidence, that President Donald Trump’s pardoning of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the first of many such pardons and...
Antifa And Newstalkers
Via: johnrussell
•
News & Politics
•
108 Comments
•
9 years ago
I logged on this morning to see yet another article about "antifa" blown up into an argument gone badly off topic and then locked. At least the moderators were all sleeping overnight (other than...
Trump Threatens to Stop U.S. Trade With China.
Via: 321steve
•
News & Politics
•
23 Comments
•
9 years ago
President Donald Trump just suggested a policy that would strip consumer goods from the shelves of American stores, jeopardize hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs and spark a meltdown across the...
There is ONLY ONE POINT about the DACA argument !
Via: it-is-me
•
News & Politics
•
3 Comments
•
9 years ago
America First ! http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/04/politics/daca-dreamers-immigration-program/ In a statement Tuesday, Trump said it was time for Congress to act. "We will resolve the...
A Re-Introduction - Good News Wednesday
Via: spikegary
•
News & Politics
•
6 Comments
•
9 years ago
With the new members we see rolling in, I was asked if I would start Good News Wednesday Again. After thinking it over, I'm willing to give it another try. Please join the Good News Wednesday...
Would You Pay To Listen To This Man Talk?
Via: johnrussell
•
News & Politics
•
6 Comments
•
9 years ago
Sean Spicer is beginning a new career as a paid public speaker. "“Audiences around the world will benefit from the same candor, wit and insight that Spicer brought to the White House...
White, Christian supremacy has been government policy in the United States for much of American history. Anarchism has not.
Via: johnrussell
•
News & Politics
•
2 Comments
•
9 years ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/what-trump-gets-wrong-about-antifa/537048/ Some of antifa's tactics are genuinely troubling. They’re troubling tactically because...
The violence next time
Via: redding-shasta-jefferson-usa
•
News & Politics
•
9 Comments
•
9 years ago
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Does hatred and violence reside only on the far right, as the media seems to be spinning things? Consider this recent personal anecdote. Late last year I was attending a board...
Trump Appoints Conservative Ex-Navy Flier to Run NASA; Liberal Heads Explode
Via: redding-shasta-jefferson-usa
•
News & Politics
•
4 Comments
•
9 years ago
What’s not to like about about Trump’s nomination of Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Oklahoma) for the job of NASA’s administrator? Everything, if you’re a liberal. According to New York Daily News...
Man burns to death at burning man festival by running into the burning man
Via: dean-moriarty
•
News & Politics
•
7 Comments
•
9 years ago
A man rushed past layers of security officers into a massive fire at the Burning Man festival's signature ceremony, suffering burns that left him dead just hours later. Authorities are...
2020 Democratic Hopefuls Aren’t Backing Bernie Sanders’ Single Payer Bill
Via: redding-shasta-jefferson-usa
•
News & Politics
•
3 Comments
•
9 years ago
Potential Democratic presidential challengers have yet to back Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ single payer health care bill, a move that has many progressives worried about their stance in the...
Three Egregious Obama Power Grabs Trump Can Rescind After DACA
Via: vic-eldred
•
News & Politics
•
6 Comments
•
9 years ago
You have to admit: liberals are good at playing the victim. Former President Obama’s executive amnesty hasn’t even been around along enough for the Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional,...
Left, Right, and Center Call on Congress to Save DACA
Via: badfish
•
News & Politics
•
2 Comments
•
9 years ago
The response has been swift and furious to today's announcement that in six months the Trump administration will rescind the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which deferred...
August unemployment report shows weakness. Commander-in-Tweet silent about his job creation skills
Via: jwc2blue
•
News & Politics
•
29 Comments
•
9 years ago
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/1/1694317/-August-unemployment-report-shows-weakness-Commander-in-Tweet-silent-about-his-job-creation-skills Unlike the previous six month, Friday’s...
Irma becomes strongest Atlantic hurricane outside Gulf and Caribbean ever recorded
Via: badfish
•
News & Politics
•
14 Comments
•
9 years ago
Irma spun into a monster storm Tuesday morning with sustained winds topping 180 mph, becoming the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded outside...
How Must Poor Barack Obama Feel Now?
Via: redding-shasta-jefferson-usa
•
News & Politics
•
44 Comments
•
9 years ago
One has to have compassion for our beleaguered and ill-treated former president Barack Obama for the way events have developed since he left the White House. Under President Donald Trump, many...
NH Dem Chair: Rural, Disaffected Voters Are ‘White Supremacists’
Via: redding-shasta-jefferson-usa
•
News & Politics
•
0 Comments
•
9 years ago
TOP New Hampshire’s Democratic Party chair referred to rural, disaffected voters as “white supremacists” and “extremists” on Sunday. WMUR9 told its viewers that Look Ahead America, an...
New Evidence Reveals Comey Exonerated Hillary Before Key Witness Interviews
Via: badfish
•
News & Politics
•
20 Comments
•
9 years ago
A new letter from Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham reveal testimony from new witnesses suggesting that former FBI Director James Comey had already started drafting documentation...
What Have Liberals Got To Hide?
Via: redding-shasta-jefferson-usa
•
News & Politics
•
13 Comments
•
9 years ago
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Progressives are in an uproar over the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, and we have to ask why? Why not look into ways to protect our elections from...
We Must Never Accept Donald Trump's Incessant Lying As 'Normal'
Via: johnrussell
•
News & Politics
•
19 Comments
•
9 years ago
nytimes.com Opinion | In Defense of the Truth Charles M. Blow Of the statements by Trump that the fact-checking site PolitiFact has checked, just 5 percent were deemed absolutely true....
The Mohawk Indians Who Built Manhattan (Photos) A salute to the ''working man''
Via: kavika
•
News & Politics
•
21 Comments
•
9 years ago
Least we forget what today is all about. I would like to take the time to honor the ''working class'' that built this country and the men and women that fought to unionize when they were being...
"The Socialism of Fools": NYT article on Leftist antisemitism - from 1971!
Via: kpr37
•
News & Politics
•
8 Comments
•
9 years ago
There is nothing new under the sun. I kept trying to pare it down but practically every paragraph has relevance today. The roots of today's leftist antisemitism clearly come from the late 1960s,...
