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Art by Jim Cooke Today The Daily Beast published an article titled “Anarchists for Donald Trump—Let the Empire Burn” in which the freelance journalist Christopher Ketcham explains the logic of certain progressive voters, including himself, who intend to vote for the presumptive Republican nominee in November. A sampling: What’s needed now in American politics is…
How do you feel about eight years of Hillary, kids? / Marc Nozell As the Democratic primary campaign comes to a close, let us recall how strange and improbable it has been all along. Hillary Clinton started out as her party’s hand-picked standard-bearer, the baddest and brightest of the nation’s dominant political faction. No prominent Democrat (save…
Years ago, over many beers in a D.C. bar, a congressional aide colorfully described the House of Representatives, where he worked. It’s “435 heads up 435 asses,” he said. Sidebar R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party » I thought of that person yesterday, while reading the analyses of Hillary Clinton’s victories…
One Republican senator’s opposition to Donald Trump is so strong, she cannot rule out the possibility that she ultimately goes for Hillary Clinton instead. Maine Senator Susan Collins spoke with The New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza and trashed her party’s nominee for his racially-charged attacks on a Hispanic judge and his “poorly-thought-out policy plan about banning…
Guests Jill Stein2016 presidential candidate for the Green Party. She was the Green Party’s 2012 presidential nominee. This is viewer supported news Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein takes aim at the presumptive nominees of both major parties, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. “Trump says very scary things—deporting immigrants, massive militarism and ignoring the climate….
Photo Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn on Tuesday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Look, we don’t want to write about every presidential campaign tweet that teeters on the brink of the absurd and holds the fun-house mirror to each and every American to reveal the political Frankentheater that the entire electorate has collaborated to create,…
Concealed carry may or may not be a wise public policy choice, but it is not a constitutional right.Scott Olson/Getty Images On Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the Constitution does not grant citizens the right to carry concealed firearms outside the home. The decision, Peruta v. San Diego, is…
This morning, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a long-awaited opinion in a case challenging how concealed-weapon permits are issued in California. Writing on behalf of the seven-judge majority, Justice William Fletcher delivered a blow to pro-gun advocates, stating that “there is no Second Amendment right for members of the general public to carry…
The left-contrarian arsonist crowd is larger and wider-spread than the cubicled creatures in the Clinton campaign have accounted for. The historic opportunity of the 2016 election is one which Bernie Sanders likely will not have the courage to embrace: The burning to ashes of the corporatist Clintonite neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party. The scenario…
There’s been a lot of concern lately about violence coming from Donald Trump protestors, but Bruce Campbell is pouring cold water on the mogul’s supporters for using a picture from his TV show as Twitter propaganda. The presumptive nominee recently held an event in San Jose, California, where things took a nasty turn as protestors…