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The "New Democrats," the organization Lisa Blunt Rochester has joined, has made clear it disapproves of the Green New Deal. The "new" in the name apparently means lobbyists should send…

Corporate lackey, Chris Coons, called out in the pages of the Cape Gazette.

As I read the commentary column by Sen. Chris Coons (Feb. 2 Cape Gazette) I could not believe that this legislator was patting himself on the back for introducing a bill that, in his view, will “…prevent prescription opioids from flooding our communities…”  I found this proposed solution presumptuous, hypocritical and disingenuous because it is a shallow attempt at restoring a power that the Drug Enforcement Agency had and diligently performed before Congress stripped it away from the DEA. 

The Associated Press reported that Stacey Abrams, who lost the Georgia governor's office in a race tainted by voter suppression, and Joe Biden held a private meeting in Washington on…

That's not just my opinion. It's what anti-terrorism expert Brian Levin, Director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, told MSNBC this morning.…

Economist Andrew Cassey joins RE Vanella to talk about Modern Monetary Theory, a new old idea which is overturning decades of both Republican and centrist Democratic talking points. A nerdy,…

The New Zealand version of #MAGA terrorist kills more people in one day than are typically killed in a year.

Our rep in Congress continues to assert that Trump does not constitute a major crisis. Maybe if she keeps patiently waiting, one will show up? In an interview with Breitbart,…

HB63 does nothing to impact the rights of responsible gun nuts. Opposing HB63 literally means that you support irresponsible gun ownership. This Act revises the crime of "unlawfully permitting a…

Everybody is familiar with the Van Morrison canon from his classic period in the '60s and '70s, but he's been turning out often-inspired music without a break ever since leaving…

Everyone makes mistakes. Smart people fix them, average people ignore them, dumb people pretend that the mistake wasn't really a mistake. Trump says he intentionally called Apple's Tim Cook "Tim…

Another Dem who can easily beat Trump (provided Dems don’t beat themselves) enters the race.

The 308 MPs that voted TO leave the EU without an agreement include a large number of what would be considered Republicans over here. That is to say, there were MPs who voted the way they did because they just want to FUCK SHIT UP (tm). Because fucking shit up owns the libs.

My wife and I have a friend in Lebanon -- the country, not the Pennsylvania town -- whom we've known since the 1970s, when Lebanon's civil war was still being…