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Seth Abramson, an attorney and law professor who also writes for The Washington Post, posted a wonderful thread about obstruction of justice. Read it here on Twitter or click below for full text.
by David Akadjian
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on Thu Jun 08, 2017 at 03:58 AM PDT
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We’ve heard a lot about Russian meddling recently. What we don’t hear about is how more than 50 years of corporate special interest group propaganda fattened the U.S. up, priming our country ...
by David Akadjian
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 07:46 AM PDT
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Would you work for Donald Trump?
Let’s say you’re a near 40-year Army veteran, silver star winner, and one of the most celebrated soldiers of the Iraq War. You wrote a book, Dereliction of ...
by David Akadjian
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on Sun May 28, 2017 at 06:00 PM PDT
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Russian influence on our presidential election needs to be pursued for the sake of our democracy.
Yet this issue makes me uneasy. Why?
Because it’s not at all certain that it helps us. My ...
by David Akadjian
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on Sun May 21, 2017 at 07:20 AM PDT
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Many folks I’ve talked to recently have admitted they’re not worried about healthcare because they get their healthcare through their employer. They don’t think it will affect them and as long ...
by David Akadjian
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on Sun May 14, 2017 at 12:00 PM PDT
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We spend a lot of time talking about what we want our elected representatives to do for us. In order for our representatives to have a shot at doing anything, however, they first have to get elected.
by David Akadjian
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on Sun May 07, 2017 at 04:40 PM PDT
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- In his article, FEAR & UNbalanced: Confessions of a 14-Year Fox News Hitman, Tobin Smith spills the beans. He feels free to do so because Roger Ailes is dead. Back in 2000, when he was first hired at Fox, he had a few questions. “So Roger...336 comments 546 Recs
- Will Rogers said, “I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” And far too often I have not been impressed by the organizing or leadership skills of Democratic or Progressive groups. I am from the school of get shit done so...131 comments 335 Recs
- On November 17, 1973, four months before the IRS billed him $400,000 in back taxes and for improper deductions, Richard Nixon held a press conference in which he famously stated “I made my ...86 comments 155 Recs
- How about we build an authoritarian apparatus within the US — be prepared to crack down on citizens, on dissent? Doesn’t sound very good, does it? Not something politicians can win on easily? So how do we do it? We need a way to spend lots of...51 comments 58 Recs
- This past week was a very big one for some very big promises from Republicans in Washington. It didn’t go well for them. Three weeks after House Republicans voted to pass a new version of their “75 comments 148 Recs
- Ah, the good old days. Max Baucus was whittling away at our healthcare plan. Remember good ol’ Max? Anthony Weiner (who I despise) and Bernie Sanders (who I love) were refusing to vote for healthcare bills coming out of committees and proposing...474 comments 442 Recs
- Matthew Shorraw is a 26 year old Democratic activist and H.S. Band Director who got pissed and led a protest last summer when the Democratic asswipe of a turn coat mayor of his hometown of Monessen PA. invited the Orange Menace to campaign there. ...154 comments 471 Recs
- And, as it turned out, he was damned right to be uneasy. But I notice some of the same commenters who pooh-poohed that diary are pooh-poohing this one. Egberto is a perceptive blogger, notwithstanding that the title of his latest piece is more...331 comments 178 Recs
- As a historian, it is difficult if not impossible to teach American history, without at least one student each semester asking in wide-eyed incredulity, the same damning question. "How could slavery have existed and flourished in the Antebellum South,...257 comments 440 Recs
- There are some who see the swiftness of Himself’s descent into full Nixon as a sign that his downfall will come quickly, that we can anticipate a Self-less White House within months, if not weeks. This giddy hope is not only false, in my view, it poses...355 comments 385 Recs
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