Democrats

History tells us that a Third Party has never been successful. The American Federal system, majority rule, Electoral College, and voter perception that a third alternative serves as a spoiler, hinder the eagerness for a Third Party. The possibility of dividing the Electoral College vote so that no candidate gains the required 270 majority deters […]

San Francisco has deteriorated so badly that employees at a federal government building that bears the name of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi have been advised to work from home to avoid drug addicts and criminals in the open air drug market outside the building.

A sickness has infected American politics. This malady, it so happens, affects people of both parties, and support for apartheid Israel - which means funding it to the tune of billions of dollars each year - crosses almost every political divide.
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The release of the document came before the grand jury had finished convening! The jury hadn't even gone into deliberations, so the county clerk was essentially telling the jury how to vote or it was a pre-determined outcome. Critics are raising alarm that the grand jury is now “tainted.” 

In May last year, the Washington Post ran a fairly typical piece about what the paper perceives as an unjustified conservative mania regarding President Joe Biden’s son. While those in the US worried “about such things as inflation and the war in Ukraine, the top concerns of congressional Republicans can be ranked roughly as follows: […]

Democratic Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is asking Congress to pass legislation that would help migrants get work authorizations and "address our outdated and punitive immigration laws" instead of directly calling for an end to Biden's open border policies.

Portland has homeless and open air drug problem; the city was also the site of Antifa riots every night for months during the Trump administration. In May, local authorities in Oregon considered calling in the National Guard to help with the city's homeless issue. 

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On August 8th, the Gallup Organization distributed via email to its “Front Page” subscribers, the results from their pollings in the 13 nations of West Africa (these being polls taken prior to the coup in Niger), which showed that in Niger, 84% said they had “Confidence in Military,” and 71% […]

With nearly sixteen months to go, we are well into the silly season. The campaigning, fund raising, maneuvering, plotting, and mud-slinging have already reached a fever-pitch. We are told that the 2024 Presidential election — like every Presidential election in my lifetime — holds the fate of the country in its grip. But it is […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The main remaining difference between America’s liberal versus conservative Parties, the Democratic Party versus the Republican Party, is the amount of hypocrisy, the pretenses that the liberals pretend about their being progressive, which they pretend means their supporting minorities and women and gays against the majority and men and straights. […]