Who doesn't want to pay lower taxes?
Of all the concerns voters have, the amount they pay in taxes seems to be the most prevalent complaint.
So when Donald Trump signed a memorandum last week suspending payroll...
In typical Donald Trump fashion the billionaire managed to be the big winner across social media during the Republican presidential debate even though he didn’t attend it.
Not only was Trump the presidential candidate to receive...
When I found out a politician speaking in Iowa only had one person show up, I felt bad. It tugged on my heart-strings. I even shed a tear.
When I found out it was Rick Santorum,...
This person has an interesting take on Colin Powell and his email leak.
https://twitter.com/jdeisenberg/status/776106997838073856
The Republicans, including their presidential nominee Donald Trump, have harped on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's emails during this entire election year.
They fail...
This election season has just been a clusterf**k of scandals. Every day we hear about some now horrible thing coming out of the orange, sphincter-shaped mouth of Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
The fact that we are...
Sex advice columnist Dan Savage is often outspoken about his concerns with how politicians treat minorities, women, and the LGBT community. In a recent interview, Savage took a break from giving relationship advice and revealed...
Last week, Donald Trump went to Mexico and met with President Enrique Peña Nieto. The meeting proved surprising, and unpopular, with people on both sides of the border, and even though President Peña Nieto agreed...
The Republican party loves to refer to itself as the party of "patriots."
In promoting this label, it relies on exploiting traditional symbols of American fortitude, militarism, and masculinity: police, the military, and firefighters.
But every so...
Just minutes after it was announced that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had been indicted by a federal grand jury and Manafort had surrendered to the FBI, Trump supporters were sent a blast email...
Four years ago, progressive radio and talk-show host and author Thom Hartmann dedicated airtime to accepting calls from listeners who wished to deliver brief messages of gratitude to Senator Bernie Sanders.
Some openly sobbed.
All acknowledged the...
Remember back in March when President Trump gave early signs of his growing dementia and boundless paranoia by accusing former President Obama of wiretapping him? In a series of four tweets, Trump, without a shred...
Donald Trump has not been a complete failure as president.
Rollbacks of environmental regulations and gains achieved under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare); shout-outs to white supremacists; rewards to supporters with cabinet positions; cuts to education...
It seems that since at least 1992, Republicans seem to have had a knee-jerk inclination to attack the media. But Ben Carson recent gave us a lovely example of how far this mentality has gone....
Once in a while, there's a glimmer of hope where we expected none. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) actually seems to be trying to get what #BlackLivesMatter is all about. At his Town Hall, televised...
Throughout the town hall debate, Donald Trump’s favorite thing to argue was that Hillary Clinton was getting more time to speak than he was. At one point he insisted that it was three to one,...
President Barack Obama's approval rating is at its highest since July 2009. It is up to 58 percent, which is 15 points higher than it was during the 2014 elections.
The Washington Post reported:
"Amid Clinton and...
Ah, Mooch, you burned brightly and then burned right on out, didn't ya? You had to try and be bigger than the Donald, steal that spotlight, weasel your way into prime position as part of...
First it was Sean Spicer tweeting out what appeared to be his password. Then we had President Trump and his infamous "covfefe" tweet, which took on a life of its own and has already spawned...
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Do we live in a reflective democracy? Does our elected leadership reflect the people they serve?
No. Of course not. As liberals, we already ?know that. But when you break out the numbers and...
