Conservatives love to blame our economic woes on social safety nets, specifically Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), aka "food stamps."
They have convinced large swaths of supporters and talking heads...
Last week's New York Times piece debunking Donald Trump's oft-repeated lie “I built what I built myself” may have gotten somewhat buried amid the coverage frenzy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh's hearing and eventual confirmation.
Even though Trump and the...
Do you know the tale of King Midas?
Everything he touched turned to gold. Life was great until he tried to eat and turned his food gold. Then he tried hugging his daughter and wound up...
Pew Research Center just released a new study that shed light on how America's economic problem in the metropolitan area have opened the door for political polar opposites Donald Trump (R- NY) and Bernie Sanders (D-VT).
It's...
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Today "unexpectedly" Japan slid back into recession. Some people say it is only the "first shoe" of many to come. The world economy seems to be falling apart again.
Both The Huffington Post and...
Protectionist trade policies aren't just good for American jobs.
They're good for national security.
As tensions heat up between the United States and China over Taiwanese independence, it's time re-evaluate who supplies us with the goods on...
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Kim Kardashian-West has always been?an extremely controversial figure ever since her sex tape with R&B singer Ray J came out.?Even though that tape seemed to be released ages ago, people still hold that...
Way back in 1988, the business mogul Leonard Stern commissioned a TV documentary about Donald Trump. However, the film never aired because Trump managed to prevent its circulation.
The film's producer Libby Handros recalled:
“He did everything he...
Well, it happened.
Despite overwhelming opposition (including a bomb threat that temporarily evacuated the hearing room), and requests for delay from 18 state attorneys over concerns of a corrupted public comment process, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday repealed regulations protecting...
What's this? Trouble in paradise? It sure looks that way.
Sarah Palin, who has wholeheartedly supported Donald Trump since he announced his run for the White House, is now taking potshots at the President-elect for the...
It appears wealthy right-wing donors behind the anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-democracy, anti-intellectual, "COVID hoax" wing of the republican party have widened their franchise.
Touting a so-called "freedom convoy," Canadian truck drivers protesting a vaccine mandate have fanned...
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) proposed a resolution to allow the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to turn over President Donald Trump's tax returns using an obscure law. Sounds like a great idea, but the House voted...
Donald Trump is running on his record as a businessman--a record that, by any standard, is an utter disgrace. Bankruptcies, not bothering to pay people who work for him, etc. But Sunday's edition of The...
To hear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tell it, there's a "war on coal" in the United States. He's been saying for years that excessive regulations on the industry are killing jobs in his home...
It probably hasn't escaped your notice (it certainly hasn't escaped ours) that Melania Trump has litigation on her mind. In the last two days, her lawyers have threatened legal action and demanded apologies from Liberal America, Britain's...
Amid the glaring problems with the Republicans' rewrite of our tax code, there is another issue that should concern us--time.
Is there enough of it to allow America to adjust to the changes since several provisions in...
Republicans love to tout "local control," "states' rights," and "smaller government."
You've heard the talking points:
"Let the states decide their own gun control laws."
"The federal government is not in the education business."
"It's not the government's job...
Earlier this week, as part of an interview he gave to Fox News, Donald Trump announced he had just learned that Ford Motor Company was about to "fire all their employees in the United States and...move...
Who would have imagined people would have to protest for a free and open internet?
Yet that is exactly what is planned to occur outside Federal Communication Commission (FCC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, the day...
When he was campaigning for the presidency, Donald Trump repeatedly said he was going to bring millions of jobs back from overseas and create millions more new ones. He promised that Americans would win so...
