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SUICIDE BY COP: PART TWO (OF FOUR)
There are some useful lessons to be learned from the arrest of Sandra Bland. Lessons about how a police officer should behave toward the public. And lessons about how the public can protect themselves...
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SUICIDE BY COP: PART THREE (OF FOUR)
The confrontation between black motorist Sandra Bland and Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia continued to worsen. Encinia: If you would’ve just listened. Bland: I was trying to sign the fucking ticket —...
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SUIICIDE BY COP: PART FOUR (END)
By now, a second–and female–officer has arrived on the scene of the arrest of motorist Sandra Bland. Bland: Make you feel real good for a female. Y’all strong, y’all real strong. Encinia: I want you to...
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FETUS FANATIC TERRORISM: PART ONE (OF THREE)
Republicans love fetuses. In fact, they love them so much they’re willing to shut down the Federal Government and deny vital public services to millions of their fellow Americans. That shutdown could...
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FETUS FANATIC TERRORISM: PART TWO (OF THREE)
On July 9, 2011-–Republican extortionists again threatened the Nation with financial ruin and international disgrace unless their demands were met. President Obama had offered to make historic cuts in...
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FETUS FANATIC TERRORISM: PART THREE (END)
On August 1, 2011, Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” wrapped up his program with a search for “options” to avoid another round of Republican extortion tactics: “I want to know what steps the...
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SPOTTING EVASIONS: PART ONE (OF THREE)
“For men in general judge more by the eyes than by the hands, for every one can see, but very few have to feel. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few feel what you are.” So wrote Niccolo...
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SPOTTING EVASIONS: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Most politicians are masters at evading questions they don’t want to answer. And they are equally adept at giving answers that seem to be candid but in fact say nothing. These skills were on full...
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SPOTTING EVASIONS: PART THREE (END)
As the August 6 Republican debate wore on, so did the evasive answers. Chris Wallace, Fox News Commentator to Businessman Donald Trump: “In 2011, you told Forbes magazine that ‘I’ve used the laws of...
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SHUT DOWN THE BULLIES
Fascism is a lie told by bullies. –Ernest Hemingway In 2011, Republicans threatened to destroy the Nation’s credit rating unless their budgetary demands were met. Yet President Barack Obama could have...
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S SAVIOR: THE NRA
On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and six adult staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. As it usually does after a mass shooting, the...
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WHY THE RIGHT WINS AND THE LEFT LOSES
Most Americans believe that Nazi Germany was defeated because “we were the Good Guys and they were the Bad Guys.” Not so. The United States–and its allies, Great Britain and the Soviet Union–won the...
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REVISING–OR SCRAPPING–OBAMACARE: PART ONE (OF FOUR)
One of the major differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton lies in their views about what should be the future of “Obamacare.” Sanders, the longtime independent Senator from Vermont,...
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REVISING–OR SCRAPPING–OBAMACARE: PART TWO (OF FOUR)
President Barack Obama came into office determined to find common ground with Republicans. But they quickly made it clear to him that they only wanted his political destruction. At that point, he...
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REVISING–OR SCRAPPING–OBAMACARE: PART THREE (OF FOUR)
On July 2, 2013, the Treasury Department announced a major change in the application of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more popularly known as “Obamacare”: “We have heard concerns about the...
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SCRAPPING–OR REVISING–OBAMACARE: PART FOUR (END)
Barack Obama is one of one of the most highly educated Presidents to occupy the White House. When he took office, he intended to make healthcare available to all Americans–and not just the wealthiest...
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REPUBLICANS: EXTORTION IS US: PART ONE (OF FOUR)
On March 16, Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican Presidential nomination, issued a warning to his fellow Right-wingers: If he didn’t win the GOP nomination at the convention in July, his...
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REPUBLICANS: EXTORTION IS US: PART TWO (OF FOUR)
On July 9, 2011, Republican extortionists threatened the Nation with financial ruin and international disgrace unless their demands were met. They refused to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats...
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REPUBLICANS: EXTORTION IS US: PART THREE (OF FOUR)
On July 9, 2011, Republican extortionists threatened the Nation with financial ruin and international disgrace unless their demands were met. President Barack Obama could have countered that danger...
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REPUBLICANS: EXTORTION IS US: PART FOUR (END)
In September, 2013, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats refused to knuckle under to yet another Republican extortion threat: Defund the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or we’ll shut down the...
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