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Warren Still Sounds Like A Progressive, But Why the Drama?

Mar 5, 2020

There is no doubt that Elizabeth Warren has a very strong progressive platform. Yet while her strong positions on curtailing the excesses of Wall Street and pay-to-play Washington, plans to tax wealth and regulate large corporations, remain, the big question is why is she waiting to endorse Sanders? Maybe, she wants to…

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Renters May Be The Key To a Progressive Dem Victory

Mar 3, 2020

By now, everyone should know that many Millenials and their younger age groups do not have the money for a downpayment on a house. Burdened by student debt, stagnant wages, and jobs that don’t pay much, these voters are mostly living in rental properties. But a new study by Apartment List.com finds…

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Biden Relies on Obama’s Bad Legacy

Mar 1, 2020

One of the lessons people are supposed to learn from yesterday’s Joe Biden’s primary victory in South Carolina is that his legacy is intertwined with that of Barack Obama. But there is a problem: Aside from being the nation’s first black president, Obama was never a progressive. When making big decisions, he…

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What Would King Solomon Do?

Mar 1, 2020

This is a bad time for US Jews who have to decide on supporting Israel versus supporting a candidate, Bernie Sanders, who will deliver some Jewish values to US citizens. Trump is a corrupt, venal president, but he gets huge financial support from Sheldon Adelson and the orthodox over his Israel policies,…

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Why the Anti-Woman Smear Against Bernie Makes No Sense

Jan 13, 2020

Voters can tell the primary in Iowa is getting very tight based on the amount of mud-slinging. But, based on the latest smear against Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders in the upcoming Iowa caucus, we can see that the allegations make no sense and were designed to detract from his momentum. Today’s reports show that…

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Are the Dems Tough Enough For 2020?

Dec 14, 2019

Can the Democrats recover from their last, lost election and regain the enthusiasm at the state level to mobilize their voters? And, more importantly, what are they doing to allow more progressives to get a voice in statewide discussions and party reform at the state levels? All these are important questions as the…

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Mayor Pete is Taking Corporate Money and Is Proud of It

Dec 10, 2019

It’s no secret that Mayor Pete is a corporate, conservative Democrat and believes that large corporate donations will continue to fuel his campaign. In a recent interview, he said the following in a discussion with a student at an Iowa university, as reported in The Independent newspaper: “Pete Buttigieg implied that he would take money…

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Obama Goes From “Yes We Can” To “No We Can’t”

Nov 19, 2019

One indicator that the Democratic Party is very tepid about making the needed changes to the current broken political, economic, health care and judicial systems has now come directly from former President Barak Obama. In a Nov. 17, 2019 speech before wealthy donors in Washington DC, Obama warned that certain candidates who…

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More Retirees and Millennials Moving Overseas

Oct 26, 2019

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. — Stephen Decatur, U.S. Navy captain, (1779-1820) The United States may always be right, but sometimes people decide they want to watch what is happening here from another location. That…