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The Dislike Is Strong In This Election

Filed in Featured, National by on May 9, 2016 112 Comments
The Dislike Is Strong In This Election

It’s like Cersei Lannister v Ramsay Bolton. As Senator Sasse says, “There are dumpster fires in my town more popular than these two ‘leaders.’ ”

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Delaware Democrats Elect Delegates for DNC

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on May 8, 2016 8 Comments
Delaware Democrats Elect Delegates for DNC

Yesterday, in Dover, the state Democratic Party elected their delegates for the Democratic National Convention this summer in Philadelphia.

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Trump Goes Back to the ’90s For Most Recent Attack

Filed in National by on May 8, 2016 7 Comments
Trump Goes Back to the ’90s For Most Recent Attack

Donald Trump reaches deep down into the Republican Clinton Attack Book.

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Some Americans Love To Hate

Filed in National by on May 8, 2016 0 Comments
Some Americans Love To Hate

In Texas, they’re building a memorial plaza for Chris Kyle, the sniper of “American Sniper”, with trees from George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch. Kyle was, at a “bare minimum, was a racist who took pleasure in dehumanising and killing brown people”.

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Obama Calls Out US Journalists

Filed in National by on May 7, 2016 1 Comment
Obama Calls Out US Journalists

In President Obama’s press conference, the President called out American journalists to do their job especially in regards to the Trump candidacy. Fat chance.

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Sadiq Khan Wins London Mayoral Election

Filed in International by on May 7, 2016 2 Comments
Sadiq Khan Wins London Mayoral Election

Sadiq Khan, a human rights lawyer and Labor Minister of Parliment, has become Mayor of London. Why is this importantant? Why should we even care? As The New York Times writes: “The victory also makes him one of the most prominent Muslim politicians in the West.”

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A Not So Brilliant Disguise

Filed in National by on May 6, 2016 14 Comments
A Not So Brilliant Disguise

Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says fuck it, why pretend.

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4,497 Reasons Why There Are No Do-Overs in War

Filed in Featured, National by on May 5, 2016 66 Comments
4,497 Reasons Why There Are No Do-Overs in War

Hillary Clinton’s colossal fuck-up of one of her most important political decisions of her career.

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Elections Are Not Binary

Filed in National by on May 2, 2016 59 Comments
Elections Are Not Binary

Several times when I have mentioned by distaste for Hillary Clinton, one of the common replies from the Hillaryites has been, “I guess you will be voting for Trump in November.” The first thing that bothers me about this comment is that is supposes there are only two choices on the ballot in November. Either […]

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Facts Are Always Lost on The Republicans

Filed in National by on April 29, 2016 6 Comments
Facts Are Always Lost on The Republicans

Donald Trump continues his “Throw Shit on The Wall and See if It Will Stick Tour”. This time it was in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

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Why I Did Not Vote For Hillary

Filed in National by on April 27, 2016 75 Comments
Why I Did Not Vote For Hillary

Late last night and this morning, I was working on a piece about why I didn’t vote for Hillary. (Jason has a great piece on why he voted for Bernie. You should read it.) So I got my post done and then I found this new editorial by Shaun King, If voting for Hillary Clinton means voting against my core beliefs, I’m not sure I can do it.

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BLM Protests Clinton

Filed in National by on February 25, 2016 7 Comments
BLM Protests Clinton

Black Lives Matter protest a Hillary event.

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Kasich Prefers His Women Barefoot and Pregnant

Filed in National by on February 23, 2016 8 Comments
Kasich Prefers His Women Barefoot and Pregnant

Okay, maybe a bit of an exaggeration. Remember with Kasich was consider the normal one? Kasich recently said, “How did I get elected [to the legislature]? I didn’t have anybody for me. We just got an army of people, who, and many women, who left their kitchens to go out and go door to door […]

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