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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIBERALISM AND LEFTISM Is true unity among Democrats possible? No. But collaboration is. by NATHAN J. ROBINSON, Current Affairs JUNE 07, 2017 It is reasonable to wonder whether the divide between liberalism and leftism actually matters very much. Why does there actually...

Comedian Bill Maher said on Sunday that Donald Trump’s campaign has revealed how many “vulgar, tacky, racist” people there are in the U.S. “What we learned is there are a lot of vulgar, tacky, racist people in this country — more than I thought, I knew there were some,” he said in an interview...

Personally I don't think it was a joke. There was a meme circulating among Christians a few years back telling people to use that scripture to pray for Obama. They were selling tshirts, coffee mugs and everything. Hateful bastards...

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/06/08/3786082/planned-parenthood-leak-subpoena/ Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., chair of the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives In March, the House investigation into Planned Parenthood took a dark turn, subpoenaing a list of names of doctors...

Bernie Sanders’s aides just threw him under the bus to Politico http://www.vox.com/2016/6/8/11881130/bernie-sanders-politico Over at Politico, Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gabriel Debenedetti have a dishy look inside the last days of the Bernie Sanders campaign. You should read it in full...

Someone had re-titled the article, so I was mad at first until I scrolled down because I thought it was clickbait, but he actually did this, though the details are sketchy. My questions are: Are candidates allowed to do this, and if so, did the local party actually honor the request...

WATCH Veteran Rip Trump A New One: I Defended This Country Alongside The People You Hate It’s not just white American men who fight and die for this country. Women, Muslims, and Hispanics have as well and this military veteran wants Donald Trump to know it. During a protest against the...

source: Vermont Public Radio Bernie Sanders To Announce Presidential Run Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a luncheon at the National Press Club on Monday, March 9, 2015 in Washington. VPR has learned that Sanders will announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential...

Baltimore Teens Make Diss Track To Donald Trump Published on Mar 29, 2016 Baltimore teens make a diss track to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. The teens highlight Donald Trump's rhetoric against muslims and hispanics. They also reference the sick comment Donald Trump made on The View in...

A Patriot Movement supporter, approved by the Trump campaign, talks of violently overthrowing the federal government. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/trump-delegates-patriot-movement-militias Last December, Donald Trump's presidential campaign approved David Riden to be a...

https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/06/01/the-5th-circuit-court-must-uphold-voter-id/ I strongly encourage all Justices of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to uphold SB 14, better known as Texas' Voter ID law. Voter ID is critical to maintaining the integrity of the ballot box...

http://www.occupy.com/article/michigan-house-candidate-wants-bring-material-democracy-detroit This is the third article in a series, “From the Ground Up,” chronicling community-level efforts to overcome economic insecurity and establish sustainable and just communities. A joint project...

10 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President Hillary Clinton is the next President of the United States. The campaign has begun as the darts are being thrown. It doesn't matter. She will win the race. It will be historic for more reasons than one. She has paid her dues as a...