RNC & DNC July Fundraising Reports
Submitted by LoneStarMike on Mon, 08/21/2017 - 1:04am
Bad Nazis vs Good Nazis
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 08/20/2017 - 8:16pmThe United States has a Nazi problem.
The white race has been "radicalized".
Do you know who's to blame for this?
You guessed it - Putin.
NAFTA is being renegotiated into TPP 2.0
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 08/20/2017 - 4:13pmThe first round of NAFTA renegotiations happened this week, and they have a very familiar feel.
Despite promises in March by US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (USTR) that the negotiations would be transparent, the USTR now considers the documents and negotiations “classified” and they’ll be cloaked in secrecy.
Harrison Browne unretires
Submitted by Robyn on Sun, 08/20/2017 - 2:16pmHarrison Browne retired from hockey at the end of 2016. The only openly transgender athlete to play a professional team sport went out a winner as his Buffalo Beauts won the Isobel Cup.
Wikipedia sums up his career:
Mutiny on the Donkey - How the Third Way wrecked the Democratic Party
Submitted by arendt on Sat, 08/19/2017 - 9:53pmOne definition of a politician is someone who sees which way the wind is blowing and goes in that direction. OTOH, it is possible to sail against the wind. Methods for doing this are called tacking or beating. However, even these methods one cannot sail directly into the wind. (BTW, the whole essay is one big nautical analogy. You have been warned.)
Insurance news
Submitted by Robyn on Sat, 08/19/2017 - 2:13pmState regulators in California have penalized Health Net $200,000 for violating antidiscrimination laws by denying coverage for transgender people seeking gender reassignment surgery.
The Medicare For All Battle will start soon
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 08/19/2017 - 1:51pmI should start by saying I was wrong and Bernie Sanders was right: waiting for the repeal Obamacare battle to finish before introducing a Medicare For All bill was a good move.
Why? Just look at how public opinion on health care shifted this year.
The return of the festering heart of Brietbart
Submitted by LaFeminista on Sat, 08/19/2017 - 6:46amRecently departed White House strategist Steve Bannon is preparing a war for Donald Trump, not against him.
The Good News about white people dying young
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 08/18/2017 - 11:21pmA few months ago I posted an essay about how a study showing that the mortality rate for poor white people was increasing at an alarming rate, and that some people were, uh, shall we say, amused by it.
The Corpo-Dems are running a political bustout on progressives.
Submitted by arendt on Fri, 08/18/2017 - 4:47pmI have never seen anything like the circus surrounding Charlottesville. The neoliberal corporate media is stoking the fires by letting both sides say outrageous things - the same way the police stoked the riots by standing aside and refusing to do their jobs. The two sides seem to be the standard far right and a newly minted FAKE far left calling itself antifa.
