Jon Perr's Profile
Groups: Daily Kos, Religious Freedom Day
Diaries published: 2706 (9 days since last diary on Sun Jul 14, 2019 at 10:30 AM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: The GOP and the Growing Right-Wing Terror Threat, 651 comments, 888 recommends
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As the 2020 election season heats up, voters’ priorities are coming into sharper focus. As in years past, there is a great divergence in what each party ranks as its top issues. Earlier this year, ...
by Jon Perr
 99 comments
on Sun Jul 14, 2019 at 10:30 AM PDT
with 82 Recommends
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Writers, bloggers, commenters, and pundits nearly exhausted the dictionary in the runup to the president’s July 4 th Trumpapalooza™ . With his tanks, parades, flyovers, and personal address,
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Jul 07, 2019 at 11:00 AM PDT
with 122 Recommends
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In late May, President Donald Trump shocked many when he rejected the assessments of his own administration and U.S. allies about recent North Korean violations of United Nations resolutions ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Jun 30, 2019 at 02:10 PM PDT
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Imagine you’re in a coffee shop when a man you don’t know sits down uninvited next to you. Scribbling on a napkin and spouting something about “tax cuts pay for themselves,” the man then ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Jun 23, 2019 at 05:15 PM PDT
with 89 Recommends
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In the great and proud history of the United States, no failing, no appalling ideology, no perverse institution—no national tragedy—compares to the American sin of chattel slavery. Codified in the nation’s founding documents in a grotesque mockery of...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Jun 09, 2019 at 01:30 PM PDT
with 108 Recommends
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The United States was the world’s lone “hyperpower” when President George W. Bush launched his disastrous and unnecessary war with Iraq in 2003. An economic and military hegemon unchallenged by any single enemy or collection of...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun May 19, 2019 at 06:30 PM PDT
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- The Kansas State capital has been the scene of an ongoing feud between the two sides.. except in this case, Democrats have filled the state capital with teachers, educators and others to let the ...67 comments 121 Recs
