Right on top of the media onslaught involving Trump's exaggerations that he was a competent and supremely successful businessman-- claims that are not backed up by the facts that come from any place other than himself-- a view into his business model hit the press in a big way: ripping off small businesses. Both USA Today and the Wall Street Journal ended the week with exposes of Trump refusing to pay bills from contractors based on...
The dissent within the Democratic Party that Sen. Bernie Sanders has sparked needs somewhere to go.It should go in a direction that doesn't back Clinton-- and doesn't help Trump.That seems like you can't do both those things, but you can if you parse it through and do some real work.That energy should not go to backing Hillary Clinton: We've been down that road before. Gov.
Early Thursday morning Trump was tweeting. "Crooked Hillary Clinton will be a disaster on jobs, the economy, trade, healthcare, the military, guns and just about all else. Obama plus!" Something tells me he's just stoking the lizard-brains of the Trumpist base, not seriously thinking he can win over any new converts to his cause.
I don't think I know any Amish people. When I worked at Sire Records I had a band I was close to called the Ocean Blue and they were from some quasi-Amish sect but not Amish exactly, although they were from Amish Country. I stayed friends with one of them but he left the sect when he figured out he was gay and didn't want to live in the closet. The band fired him.
Bernie Sanders, after meeting with President Obama. Obama has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.by Gaius PubliusThis is another installment in our occasional series "The Clinton Server Story for Progressives." Sorry to bring this news to you via a right-wing source, but for some reason, it's not appearing in more mainstream outlets.
Lindsey Graham faced up to the reality of Trump's victory over the GOP and urged Florida millionaires he met with just over a week ago to back the party's bizarre nominee. Then came the crazy reaction to Judge Curiel and ole Lindsey faced up to a different kind of reality-- a GOP Dunkirk this fall.
“It’s scandalous,” former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner complained. “It’s absolutely scandalous and it really feeds into what Sanders supporters believe… that this whole thing was rigged right from the beginning.” The Associated Press announcement, on Monday, that Hillary Clinton is now decisively the Democrat nominee and Bernie Sanders is basically out of the race […]
Were you laughing when Trump whined it was inappropriate for surrogate and Adelson-nominee for Trumpish running-mate Newt Gingrich to defend Judge Gonzalo Curiel against Trump's bizarre racist onslaught? The Newtster responded by suggesting Trump might ride into the GOP convention on an elephant but later reversed himself entirely and said, "Trump's complaints about the judge... are valid and reflect a growing pattern of politicized justice." Huh? How did that happen?Well...
