Teach a Robot to Fish
It is the saying that most informs the average American's thinking about economics, yet it no longer remains true.Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a...
View ArticleHow 2016 Could End Up a Five Way Race
The big news from the Republican Debate is that Donald Trump will not rule out running as a third-party candidate if he is not the Republican nominee.That statement is precisely why he will never be...
View Article23 Years With All Conversations Screened By the Secret Service
By the time the first primary voting rolls around in February, it will have been 23 years since Hillary Clinton has had a conversation with anyone who wasn't scrutinized in some way or shielded from...
View ArticleThe Billionaire vs. The Socialist
My one great fear with Trump and Sanders both having positive gains and taking the lead in some early polls is that the rest of the world will start to think we are getting dumber should they both...
View ArticleSanders Cannot Win
The general election without doing something that Clinton is incapable of doing.That thing is expanding the map of states which are in play.If polls by one of the better polling organizations in...
View ArticleMoronic Upstate NY Secessionists
So no less than five times in the past year at least one moronic Facebook friend has liked, shared, or commented on one of the various stupid memes about Upstate New York breaking away from New York...
View ArticleWhy I Am No Longer a Second Amendment Supporter
I have actually put my money where my mouth is and my mouth where my money is in the past representing individuals charged with firearm offenses on a pro-bono basis because I genuinely believe that an...
View ArticleExorcising the Corporate Demons
If there is one thing Senator Sanders insurgent campaign for the heart of the Democratic Party has demonstrated, it is a longing amongst the American people for unbought and unbossed political leaders...
View ArticleThe $4,999.99 Pledge
I have a radical, revolutionary proposal. It was in no small part inspired by a Democratic Congressional Candidate in the Mountain West in 2014 who ran his campaign using ONLY free online resources....
View ArticleDestroying the Right Wing Economic Narrative
In the United States, the myth that the right wing and the corporate media has perpetuated since the Reagan era is that tax cuts lead to economic growth. Curtailing regulation is a necessity to grow...
View ArticleA Few Thousand 20-Somethings Can Change the World
This coming Monday night, in towns all across the cold midwestern State of Iowa, a few thousand American 20-Somethings have the power to change the world forever. When you dig down into the polling...
View ArticleBreaking Up the Big Banks, No Legislation Required
If Bernie Sanders is elected to the Presidency, his job as the chief executive is to enforce the laws already on the books. The primary point of attack against the Big Wall Street Banks is not the...
View ArticleCops Hated Serpico, Congress Hates Bernie
If you have ever seen the film Serpico about the real life NY cop who as a rookie was surprised to find the majority of his colleagues were on the take, then the fact that Bernie is hated by most of...
View ArticleIf 3 Coin Tosses happened, It's a Tie!
I’ve read 3 coins tossed at 3 separate precincts decided the 3 delegates that are the difference. All three coin tosses were won by Clinton, per MSNBC. I’ve seen one Twitter video too.As I understand...
View ArticleRacism, Anti-Semitism, Sexism, and Billionaires All Lost Last Night!
Ted Cruz is a Hispanic American and in a Republican Caucus, he defeated a wealthy white protestant billionaire. Marco Rubio another Cuban American almost defeated the wealthy white protestant...
View ArticleRonald Reagan Stole Abraham Lincoln's Gift to You, Bernie Wants to Give it Back
In the midst of the grave and calamitous Civil War, the Lincoln Administration signed into law the Morrill Act of 1862. This Act was amended and expanded in the years following Lincoln’s death, but it...
View ArticleThe Clintons Destroyed the Democratic Party
It all started in early 1993. Recently elected President Bill Clinton rammed the North American Free Trade Agreement which the first President Bush had negotiated through the Senate ratification...
View ArticleThis Is Generational Warfare
I was born during the waning days of the Ford Administration, not long before the election, and not long after the bicentennial celebration. I’m smack dab in the middle of one of the ‘tweener...
View ArticleHow Bernie is Fighting the Next Great Wedge Issue that Clinton Doesn't Even See
Current reporting values total US Student loan debt at approximately $1.5 Trillion and rising steadily. It is already more than half of what US mortgage debt was in 1996 and more than 10% of the value...
View ArticleMedicare-For-All Savings Would Be Equivalent to Eliminating Income Tax for...
So says the analysis of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and tax law professor David Cay Johnston. Johnton makes it pretty clear that Sanders’ plan will be a boom to the economy. Major US...
View ArticleThe Billionaires are Terrified: Too Bad, the Presidency Isn't a Sports...
A second billionaire is prepared to enter the race because the first one doesn’t look like a winner and the bought and paid for candidates on both sides of the aisle lose or may lose in almost every...
View ArticleWhat My Teachers Being Directors of a Public Company Taught Me About...
When I was eleven, twelve, and thirteen years old, I had no idea how uniquely privileged I was as an American Middle School student -especially as a public school student. Two of my teachers were...
View ArticleWhy Sanders Supporters Should Be Hoping for SuperDelegates to Ignore the...
The reality of the 1972 election is that McGovern lost for several reasons that have no resemblance to the realities on the ground today. There is no sitting President running for re-election. The...
View ArticleThe Average American Pays 70.59% in Taxes, Bernie Wants to Cut that to 35.3%...
The major criticism from Republicans and the media talking heads about the Sanders plan for tuition free public colleges and universities and universal health care is that it will cost too much in...
View ArticleBernie Helped Desegregate the University Where President Obama Taught
In 1962 and 1963, essentially at the time President Obama was being born, Bernie Sanders helped to desegregate the University of Chicago where President Obama would later teach Constitutional Law....
View ArticleDoes the Democratic Party Want to Win Back Rural Voters, Appalachia, and the...
This is a serious question and it is a question that has already begun to play out in the present primary in a way that is easily compared and contrasted with the 2008 Democratic Primary. President...
View ArticleThe Collapse of 2017: Why the Powers That Be Don't Care
A Brief History of Relatively Recent EconomicsIf you have been paying attention to our system of rigged economics for the past few decades then you are probably concerned that The Great Recession is...
View Article14,000,000 Millennials are in Default
If the statistics are telling the truth, there are approximately 80,000,000 Millennial adults in the United States of America. This group of 18-35 year olds is the largest voting block in the United...
View ArticleTrump Would Beat Clinton in New York in November
This isn’t based on polling, just the observations of a lifelong New Yorker who has been paying attention to their fellow New Yorkers and politics his entire life.In 1994, New York State was suffering...
View ArticleAnti-Corruption Voters Stay Home in New York When Corruption Tops the Ticket
In 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo earned 2,069,480 votes. The Republican candidate running against him, who barely put on a campaign garnered 1.5 million votes. In 2010, Andrew Cuomo garnered...
View ArticleTrump is the Elites' Tool to Manufacture Consent
Let’s be honest, while Donald Trump has said a lot of outrageous things designed to get press attention, but at the end of the day, he is part of that club that George Carlin talked about. Trump is...
View ArticleFear Itself: Roosevelt and Yoda Were Right
I have always been a fan of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His first inaugural address, and more importantly its most oft quoted line, “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the...
View ArticleFriends Don't Let Friends Vote Trump: A Practical Guide to an Intervention
So I’ve been going over it and over it in my mind. The Vox article on the rise of American Authoritarianism and Donald Trump isn’t the problem, attacking him, only grows his flock. It activates more...
View ArticleLargest Voter Turnout in Caucus History in Colorado and Kansas
The thing about “small” states, it doesn’t take a lot of voters to change who they send to the House of Representatives, or the US Senate. It also doesn’t take a lot of voters to add those electoral...
View ArticleDid Senator Sanders Win African American Men in Michigan?
I’m seriously asking because it is showing as N/A on CNN.com and MSNBC.com, yet I’m fairly certain I saw it flash that he won 53% to 47% amongst African American Men in Michigan. That could be a...
View ArticleThe Center of the Map: Political Realignment Ahead
The voting patterns of the electorate in the center of the country have shown us some very important things, as have the voting patterns in the South. The results on both sides suggest a great...
View ArticleSanders Secret Weapon in New York: It Helped Win Michigan Yesterday!
A while ago in New York a small third-party fusion voting party was formed with the help of the unions. The Working Families Party has gone on to expand into several other states and it has worked...
View ArticleGeorge Carlin Warned Us About This Club
I miss George Carlin. I’m sure he would be having a field day presently. My suspicion is that he would come up with something really funny to say about the current environment. He was also astute...
View ArticleIt is Time to Protest Corporate Media's Racism
When MSNBC is airing Donald Trump’s speeches uninterrupted without commentary. When CNN is giving a microphone to “political commentators” accusing the modern Democratic Party which lost its racists...
View ArticleTribune Reporter Said Rally Peaceful Until Trump Canceled
A Chicago Tribune reporter at the Trump rally said protestors were loud, but violence only happened AFTER Trump canceled the event.He didn’t want to speak to a crowd where 50% of the people opposed...
View ArticleAdvanced Citizenship
This speech written by a fellow Syracuse Alum sums it up pretty well before the music starts to play.The only caveat I would explain is that the people who say things that make your blood boil and who...
View ArticleRecruiting a Candidate for Congress
The DCCC recruited a potential candidate from outside my Congressional District to run against the Freshman Congresswoman.The candidate recruited by the DCCC is not someone I want to support and the...
View ArticleOnly 150 Callers Accounted for 25,000 GOTV Calls for Sanders Yesterday
According to Reddit only 150 dedicated callers supporting the Sanders campaign using the Bernie Dialer accounted for 50% of the approximately 50,000 GOTV calls made yesterday.At an average rate of 15...
View ArticleWe Didn't Leave the Party, The Party Left 50% of Us
I have remained a Democrat because it was the Party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy.All of those Presidents were dead before I was born. When I was four the Republican...
View ArticleThe Fifty Year Old White Guy
I myself am not quite yet a 40 year old white guy, but I know my fair share of 50 year old white guys, and plenty of previously 50 year old white guys, they are friends, family members, and just...
View Article2008 NY Primary Results Should Concern Secretary Clinton
In 2008, NY voted on Super Tuesday which came on February 5th.During that election cycle Obama focused his resources almost entirely on Caucus states and much smaller states than New York.Neither...
View ArticleHow Republican Super Pacs May Attack Clinton From the Left in the Fall
The thing about Super Pacs on the Republican side is that while they have spent a fair amount of money to stop Trump, they have not so far been successful because a plurality takes all in many...
View ArticleWhy Bernie's Anti-Wall Street Message Matters
In my region of Northern New York, two paper factories that had been in operation in some form or another for more than a century both shuttered forever yesterday. Metro Paper in Carthage, New York...
View ArticleHand Count New York
12 years ago the original audience for DailyKos and the Democratic activists inspired by the Dean campaign insisted in New York that any electronic voting machines used in the State provide a paper...
View ArticleYesterday Proved Most Voters Don't Care
4 million New York Democrats did not vote yesterday. They don’t care about the country, and they could care less about either candidate.
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