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Is There Room for Compromise with Socialism?

Via: badfish-hd-h-u • Op/Ed • 14 Comments • 7 years ago

Private ownership of the means of production (market economy or capitalism) and public ownership of the means of production (socialism or communism or "planning") can be neatly distinguished. Each...

Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 16 Comments • 7 years ago

WASHINGTON A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at...

Trump Ends 2018 With An Astounding Number Of Lies Under His Belt

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

The president’s proclivity to twist data and fabricate stories is on full display at his rallies. He has his greatest hits: 124 times he had falsely said he passed the biggest tax cut in...

MSNBC morning ratings top Fox for first time in 18 years

By: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 20 Comments • 7 years ago

MSNBC morning ratings top Fox for first time in 18 years 12/27/2018 6:35 AM Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories Web site view News Politics TV...

Who Can Believe President* Trump ?

By: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 56 Comments • 7 years ago

Trump had an exchange with reporters in the White House today. He spoke at some length about the border/wall issue. He talked about a portion of wall that is being built in Texas. He talked...

Fantasy problems don’t have realistic solutions

Via: don-overton • Op/Ed • 18 Comments • 7 years ago

To a certain extent this is the kind of problem propaganda always causes: When propagandists build an artificial crisis out of more mundane problems, opponents are usually stuck without a...

Haters gonna hate: Sexy Melania Trump is the one FLOTUS the media love to destroy

Via: adf-frc-cwa-fair-cis-lc-fan-1 • Op/Ed • 163 Comments • 7 years ago

Melania Trump is the most gorgeous and glamorous first lady in US history. She’s also the only FLOTUS to be fluent in five languages. Despite her bombshell beauty and style, Melania has never...

8 states blast Phoenix attack on artists' speech

Via: adf-frc-cwa-fair-cis-lc-fan-1 • Op/Ed • 149 Comments • 7 years ago

Eight states have filed a brief with the Arizona Supreme Court in support of two calligraphy artists who are challenging a Phoenix ordinance that would require them to violate their Christian...

Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 20 Comments • 7 years ago

As Russia’s online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race,...

LeBron James Apologizes For ‘Jewish Money’ Instagram Post

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 3 Comments • 7 years ago

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lebron-james-jewish-money_us_5c20f0d7e4b08aaf7a8b3d81 If social media posts were shot attempts, LeBron James just clanked one off the rim. The Los...

Trump Tries To Ruin Christmas For 7 Year Old

By: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 16 Comments • 7 years ago

The war on Christmas, and Thanksgiving, and Columbus Day, and...

Via: adf-frc-cwa-fair-cis-lc-fan-1 • Op/Ed • 82 Comments • 7 years ago

Columbus Day has been attacked every year because Christopher Columbus supposedly personally carried out genocide, a complete fabrication by Marxists who are famous for falsifying history for...

Trump Betrayed Kurds To Please Turkish Dictator

By: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 87 Comments • 7 years ago

THEN Trump to Kurdistan 24: Kurds are great people, incredible ... www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/168ca36e-70d1-4bc3-89a3-af91afe643ea ERBIL ( Kurdistan 24) – The...

Another crazy Christmas with Donald Trump

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 44 Comments • 7 years ago

Trump is not necessarily wrong, after all, in his über-Scrooge belief that rich people’s crimes drive the world’s economy. Much of what his fans appear to love about him is that he makes no...

Worst Christmas Eve Performance In The History Of The U.S. Stock Market

By: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 53 Comments • 7 years ago

Worst Christmas Eve performance for stocks ever. S&P officially closes in bear market Fear Index Vix jumps by 15% as stock market rout deepens w/ S&P plunges to lowest level since...

Niibaa' Anami'egiizhigad & Aabita Biboo (T'was the Night Before Ojibwe Christmas)

Via: kavika • Op/Ed • 17 Comments • 7 years ago

'Twas the Night Before Ojibwe Christmas By Tara Prindle 'Twas the night before Niibaa-anamaíegiizhigad, when all through the wiigiwaamNot an awakaan was stirring, not even a...

How Apollo 8 sent a timeless holiday greeting from the heavens

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 9 Comments • 7 years ago

They really didn't need words in the end. As it turned out, a single photo would do most of the talking – a shot of the Earth coming up above the horizon. "Wow, is that pretty!" Problem...

Good Riddance to Obamacare

Via: adf-frc-cwa-fair-cis-lc-fan-1 • Op/Ed • 78 Comments • 7 years ago

Surprise, surprise. Obamacare, aka the Affordable [sic] Care Act, is dead , pending a possible Supreme Court review. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth sided with the argument...

Polarization and the promise of a wall

By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 62 Comments • 7 years ago

In November of 1986 President Reagan signed the " The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986". The law would eventually grant citizenship to migrant workers who had been living in the country...

O Come All Ye faithless

By: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 239 Comments • 7 years ago

Should atheists use the holiday season as a REASON to advocate for atheism? Isn't it a little mean natured to want to diminish the celebrations of a group you are basically in opposition...

A matter of Principle

By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 62 Comments • 7 years ago

One of the things I was most happy about when Donald Trump was elected was that we might finally have a foreign policy that would at the very least have maximum input from Military advisors, maybe...

Despite Years Of Effort From Activists, Chick-Fil-A Poised To Become Third-Biggest Fast Food Joint

Via: adf-frc-cwa-fair-cis-lc-fan-1 • Op/Ed • 73 Comments • 7 years ago

Despite ongoing criticism from activists, fast food chain Chick-fil-A is projected to become the third-largest restaurant chain in the U.S., according to an analysis from Kalinowski Equity...

A Texas teacher sued the state after being fired for refusing to sign a pro-Israel contract

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 163 Comments • 7 years ago

newsweek.com A Texas teacher sued the state after being fired for refusing to sign a pro-Israel contract By Daniel Moritz-Rabson On 12/17/18 at 5:16 PM A Texas school district...

Someone's Raised Nearly $1M on GoFundMe to Build Trump's Border Wall, Because of Course

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 99 Comments • 7 years ago

According to math submitted by one Post reader and repeated, uncredited, on Kolfage’s GoFundMe page: “If the 63 million people who voted for Trump each pledge $80, we can build the wall.”...

Americans have had enough

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 5 Comments • 7 years ago

Americans have had enough https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/21/americans-have-had-enough/?utm_term=.c591340e0689 DECEMBER 21, 2018 President Trump may have misread —...

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