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'Sleepwalking into dictatorship': Liz Cheney says 'co-opted' GOP would help Trump 'end the republic' Anti-Trump, pro-democratic conservative are goin g to play an important role in helping us beat MAGA/Trump and preserve the US democracy. In fact, imo, the recent paralells in the US to old European fascism—and the amount of political support it...
by Mrmuni12
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on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 10:22 AM PST
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I am watching a wonderful series at Wondrium titled “The Modern Intellectual Tradition.” It traces the failure of Philosophy to define practices that enable us to ascertain truth. The lecturer, Lawrence Cahoone of the College of the Holy Cross, does an...
by bkbalke
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 08:34 AM PDT
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He. Is. Done.
by doc durango
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on Mon Dec 24, 2018 at 08:00 AM PST
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I am old enough to know that unions once were the mainstay of the working class and the root of middle class prosperity. I remember a Democratic Party that was the home of every man and woman who worked for a living. But I continued to think of the...
by JoeCarl
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on Fri Feb 24, 2017 at 06:03 PM PST
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In Saturday’s Pundit round-up Michael Lind opines that we’re seeing a partisan realignment, but one that in the long run favors the GOP. He is absurdly over-optimistic about the potential Trump’s potential to re-cast the GOP in a new image and...
by Rambler797
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on Sun Aug 07, 2016 at 08:09 AM PDT
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In yesterday's Evening Blues ( Evening Blues 5/19/16 ), Joe Shickspak brought up and inked to an article from the intercept ( Koch Institute Article ) that discusses a possible alteration in the ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Fri May 20, 2016 at 07:04 AM PDT
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(TheInquisitr) - It's weird to think that Donald J. Trump didn't make it out on top of the Iowa caucus. I would have preferred him to win, over Ted Cruz.
But of the three, there's already some su
by JonMark
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on Wed Feb 03, 2016 at 04:31 AM PST
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After doing their very best to ignore Bernie Sanders upstart campaign over the last year, the Washington Post’s Editorial board has changed tactics, launching an all out editorial assault on the Sande
by Lefty Coaster
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on Thu Jan 28, 2016 at 11:51 AM PST
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Arguably the greatest gifts we can give are, faith in ourselves, hope for our children’s future, love for all, and a knowledge of our past which makes us wise enough not to repeat it.
Both Old an
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Mon Jan 11, 2016 at 07:33 PM PST
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Queued for cross-posting on caucus99percent .
Neoliberalism, that buzzword--the definition of which is the source of many a misdirection and hi-jacking, the existence of which many kossacks will ...
by Words In Action
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on Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 05:02 PM PDT
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Actually, the Right is more than wrong. It's behavior and policies are scary, dangerous and are an unmitigated disaster. The social media had been on fire last week with shares and hashtags that ...
by Libby Shaw
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on Sun Mar 22, 2015 at 01:13 PM PDT
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What happens when the contempt of elected officials for the duly elected POTUS (twice, thank you) trumps loyalty to one's country and its Constitution. This is especially true when these same ...
by Libby Shaw
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on Sat Mar 14, 2015 at 12:45 PM PDT
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One famous definition of insanity is to repeat the same mistake over and over again, every time expecting a different result. By that definition, the United States government has gone insane. We ...
by Eric Stetson
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on Mon Jun 16, 2014 at 05:32 PM PDT
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File this one away now under curiousities of the 2016 campaign .
Former United ...
by Dartagnan
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on Thu Mar 06, 2014 at 02:05 PM PST
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On the Ted Rall "rascist" comic strip, there are some people among those whom I respect a great deal who found it offensive. With them, I would engage in serious, open-minded discussion. I could be ...
by Words In Action
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on Mon Dec 02, 2013 at 01:28 PM PST
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In what could have been a real sleeper, we were amazed at the unintended unveiling of yet another Mitt Romney. This was not the usual consistently inconsistent Mitt Romney, for we've seen all ...
by lbines
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on Tue Oct 23, 2012 at 06:29 AM PDT
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U.S. foreign policy going forward, is about as transparent as mud in the eye of the international community. With the most influential nation on earth proposing earthshaking change to its method of ...
by lbines
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on Mon Oct 22, 2012 at 07:34 AM PDT
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It’s time to get out of Afghanistan! Osama Bin Laden is dead, and I see no reason to be there anymore. There is both a financial and a human cost in staying:
In the eleven years that American ...
by Shawn Russell
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on Tue Oct 09, 2012 at 05:04 PM PDT
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As the campaign goes on I have far more questions than answers. The ghost of the Bush administration still haunts us as well as the neoconservative ideology that dominated it and seems very covert ...
by don mikulecky
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on Tue Oct 09, 2012 at 01:52 PM PDT
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Maureen Dowd has written a great opinion in today’s edition (actually Sunday edition, but it's available online today) of the NY Times , wherein she completely exposes the man, the puppet-master ...
by Shawn Russell
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on Sat Sep 15, 2012 at 01:10 PM PDT
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