Italian Supreme Court: Stealing food, if poor and hungry, is not a crime
As a New Orleans man faces life in prison for stealing a few candy bars from a dollar store, we are shown, once again, that Europe may offer a more humane vision for executing Western civilization.Yes,...
View ArticleHere's why progressives shouldn't be excited about a "Medicare buy-in"...
Lots of folks were pretty excited yesterday by the news that presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton dropped the words “public option” and “Medicare buy-in” at a campaign stop in Northern...
View ArticleSorry, but I'm a Bernie Sanders voter (or supporter), not a "fan."
I’ve noticed that some journalists have taken to referring to Bernie Sanders supporters as “fans” — evoking an unserious comedian or singer rather than a candidate for the presidency — and not,...
View ArticleNo, Donald Trump is not Berlusconi. He's worse than that. There's no EU to...
A lot of Very Serious DC pundits seem to think Trump might just be a Berlusconi — a silly curiosity, but not an existential threat to the nation. x Will Trump be an American Putin or an American...
View ArticleHealth insurers shouldn't be suing taxpayers, but our "universal" health care...
Private health insurance companies are not really in the “health care” business — they actually operate more like investment banks, who profit from investing your premiums all while trying to pay as...
View ArticleItaly's "Bernie Sanders" just passed. And his career shows why the Democrats...
Italy and the United States have a lot in common — both young countries (although Italy is almost 100 years younger), regions with strong local identities united by antipathy towards the national...
View ArticleAt this very moment, Austria is showing us how we beat a hateful, xenophobic...
Take a look at this: x The independent green might just beat the far right in Austria!pic.twitter.com/4t0XNQZkHI— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) May 22, 2016Who, you might ask, is Hofer?He’s a...
View ArticleA single tunnel through the Alps now has more high-speed rail track than the...
Right now, in the Greatest Country on Earth, the so-called “high-speed” Acela service reaches its maximum operating speed of 150 mph for just 18 miles of its 452-mile journey from Boston to Washington,...
View ArticleTo understand the visceral appeal of Donald J. Trump, watch this short video...
I need you to watch this short video from start to finish. (Don’t worry, when Putin speaks in Russian, there are English subtitles.) x YouTube VideoDid you catch Putin’s first words?“You ran around...
View ArticleWhy is a "high-priced" Cigna lobbyist raising money for Hillary Clinton's...
In 1993, Hillary Clinton was spot on when she bemoaned“high-priced lobbyists who get paid to keep everything the same” in our barbaric, grossly-expensive health care non-system. x YouTube Video It’s...
View ArticleI want to blow your mind about unemployment in the United States of America.
In the absence of a consolidated welfare state, United States politicians love to obsess about the unemployment rate — unemployment, after all, means no health care, no money for education, no money...
View ArticleElites dismissing the pain and suffering of the marginalized is how you get...
Despite horrific socio-economic inequality, execution-style killings of black people on an almost daily basis, and the fact that over 30 million Americans still cannot visit a doctor when they get...
View ArticleBaton Rouge Police: Property Rights Are Only For White People (Videos)
Property rights are fundamental to the “American Dream” — indeed, the “right to pursue happiness” actually refers to one’s right to own property. (Of course, originally, that also meant the right for...
View ArticleHillary Clinton is going to lose if she keeps using this playbook.
(I wish I didn’t need to qualify my diary, but as a former Bernie partisan in this community, and based on the first comments I’m seeing below, I suppose it’s necessary. No, this diary is not “Bernie...
View ArticleSorry, Hillary and Michelle, America still sucks for a lot of people.
Because I’m not a big fan of racist reality television stars leading a country of 320 million (mostly) decent people, this tweet from Hillary made me cringe: x“I don’t understand people who...
View ArticleStudy finds U.S. teens increasingly turning to sex work in order to combat...
Teenagers in the United States are increasingly turning to sex work in order to be able to acquire enough food to eat, according to a new study from Washington D.C.’s Urban Institute, the Guardian...
View ArticleDemocratic Party politicians need to stop calling America the "greatest...
This diary starts with the United States Tennis Association. Yes, you read that right. A few weeks ago, they accidentally played Germany’s Nazi-era anthem before a U.S.-Germany match and, as you might...
View ArticleNo, LePen isn't going to win in France. Because France already has excellent...
I’ve seen a lot of handwringing around France’s upcoming presidential election. Will LePen win and put a final nail in the coffin of the so-called “West”? I doubt it. Of course, the “centrist” pundits...
View ArticleSorry, Hillary Fans, the Lesson of Macron's Epic Success is More Bernie 2020...
Update: As expected, I’m being attacked as an idiot and told that I don’t understand anything about either U.S. or French politics. I’m also being told it’s unfair to compare French politics to U.S....
View ArticleI wrote the diary for why a "Jon Ossoff" would lose last summer. He lost. We...
Last summer, after Hillary’s campaign released one of their first adverts — kids watching Trump say mean stuff — I wrote that simply attacking Trump as “being an asshole” would lead to a big Hillary...
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