Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
On Thursday, while Washington was transfixed by Hillary Clinton’s marathon testimony before the Benghazi committee, a Republican bill to raise the debt limit fell apart. The Treasury Department says it must be raised by Nov. 3 to avoid a cataclysmic default. On Thursday morning, a Goldman Sachs note said it “seems unlikely” that the issue…
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is drastically slashing campaign spending, including an across-the-board pay cut for staff, and focusing more narrowly on early states, as the one-time front-runner seeks to salvage his bid for the GOP nomination. The moves will reduce the campaign’s payroll by 40 percent, while also cutting…
Twice in recent weeks, we’ve gotten to watch hotly anticipated Congressional hearings, in which mostly male Republican members got the chance to grill powerful women who had upset them. In both cases, those members of Congress ended up looking like damn fools. How’d that happen? There are lots of good reasons why neither the #Benghazi…
Speaking at the Democratic Women’s Forum National Issues Conference Oct. 23, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee (D) announced an end to his campaign for president and vowed to fight for other Democrats’ wins in 2016. (AP) Democratic presidential hopeful Lincoln Chafee announced Friday that he is withdrawing from the race, ending a bid that…
While Donald Trump is bragging about closing mosques to fight Islamic terrorism, there has been an under-reported surge of right-wing terrorism recently in the U.S. Since July, when anti-choice crusaders released hoax videos that falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood sells fetal body parts, there has been a rash of arsons at clinics, at least one…
The drama ramped up this morning as the first half of the Benghazi hearing wound down, and let me just say—thank god for split-screens. The hearing was at times indignant, self-satisfied and excruciatingly long, but against all odds it became exciting when Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) confronted the chairman of the committee, Rep. Trey Gowdy…
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson waves to supporters after addressing the National Press Club Newsmakers Luncheon Oct. 9, 2015, in Washington, D.C., to promote his new book, A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr There was a time when running…
If you ask a friend about what they do or don’t like about Donald Trump’s platform, they’ll probably tell you where they stand on his immigration policies…and then not go much further. There may be several reasons for this, but one is probably that Trump has been surprisingly silent on other issues, especially social ones,…
The Black Lives Matter Movement has popularized a statistic released a few years ago in a report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The report found that a Black person is killed every 28 hours by a law enforcement officer or vigilante. A new study released by the Violence Policy Center provides another alarming statistic: Once…
We got your back, Handsome Joe. Finally, after weeks and weeks and WEEKS AND FUCKING WEEKS of know-nothing speculation, we have our answer. Old Handsome Joe Biden is not running for president, and would like to spend some more time grieving his recently deceased son, can you all just go the fuck away please? At least…